Overview

Adult Basic Life Support

The Adult Basic Life Support course aims to help employees to understand what is involved with Adult Basic Life Support and how to apply it in their everyday working lives when required.

The module will cover your individual responsibilities concerning Adult Basic Life Support, as well as the responsibilities of the organisation. It will teach you the signs of cardiorespiratory arrest and choking, and how to effectively recognise them. You will also learn how to initiative an appropriate emergency response to these kinds of incidents, including instructions for how to perform the recovery position on an individual, and how to operate an Automated External Defibrillator (AED).

Course Details

This module will take approximately 20 minutes to complete. 

It includes the following elements. 

• It is designed for all staff to assist with their understanding of what is involved in Adult Basic Life Support and how and when to apply it in their daily working lives.
• The course contains a case study and multiple-choice questions.

Topics covered