Emergency Aid Training (Life Support for Cricket Coaches)

Life Support for Cricket Coaches Paul Griffiths Oct 2008

Whilst the highest percentage of football injuries are thankfully only minor, the minority are major, of which some are classified as 'life threatening'.

Course Information:

• Minimum Age: 16
• Course Duration: 3 hours 
• Course Prerequisites: None
• Who is it for: A short course over 3 hours to train club representatives in resuscitation and life-saving skills.
• Course aims and objectives:

• 1. To preserve life
• 2. Limit the effect of injury
• 3. Promote recovery

Course Content: This course will cover the following subjects:

• Incident Management
• Assessing the casualty
• Recovery position
• CPR
• Control of bleeding
• Heart attacks
• Choking
• Shock

Practical Involvement: The course contains content of a practical and functional nature, given this participants should be in good general health. Students should appreciate that the course contains practical components where they will work with other course members.

Assessment:
        1. Attendance on the course
        2. Practical participation/demonstration of various components of the course content.

Re-assessment: N/A

Refresher: First Aid qualifications have a 3 year validity, this qualification must be renewed every 3 years.

Workshop / Course Dates Paul is aware of:

Surrey Cricket - Emergency Aid for Cricket Coaches Workshops (First Aid) 2010-2011

this page was last reviewed and updated 10 September 2010