While carrying out your duties, you may be called upon to provide first aid for someone who is ill or injured and possibly unresponsive. By learning the steps of The ApproachT, to managing medical or traumatic emergencies, you will be better prepared to handle emergency situations as they arise. This standard, developed by Active Canadian Emergency Training Inc., is used by paramedics when responding to medical or traumatic emergencies.

The Emergency First Aid/CPR Training program is specifically designed for police officers, providing them with the knowledge, skill and confidence to effectively treat medical and/or traumatic emergency patients. This course will introduce you to the fundamentals of first aid, The ApproachT, procedures for performing CPR and how to operate an AED. Additionally, you will learn how to recognize and treat the signs and symptoms typically associated with different types of injuries/illnesses encountered by police officers.

The program is based on an accredited standard developed by provincial workers compensations boards and nationally by Health Canada. It is a blended learning approach incorporating both online learning and in-classroom training. Previously a full-day classroom course, police officers can now utilize this approach to receive their mandatory First Aid / CPR Certification in just 2-4 hours of online learning and 1 hour in the classroom. A short classroom session is required so that participants can demonstrate and be tested on their ability to perform the practical skills. This approach reduces training time by 3-5 hours per participant and significantly reduces an organization's training costs.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course you will be able to:

• Identify the objectives and priorities of first aid for a police officer
• Identify the different steps involved in The ApproachT
• Identify how to properly manage an emergency scene as a police officer
• Identify how to properly assess a patient
• Recognize the procedures for managing a patient's airway, breathing, circulation and deadly bleeding
• Identify cardiovascular disease and how to treat a patient suffering from the effects of cardiovascular disease
• Recognize the proper procedures for performing one/two-rescuer CPR
• Recognize the proper policies and procedure for using an AED
• Recognize ballistic trauma and identify how to treat a Police Officer suffering from ballistic trauma using the 'strip and flip' body amour removal techniques
• Recognize signs and symptoms of trauma to the head and/or brain
• Recognize the procedures for treating patients suffering from head and/or brain trauma
• Recognize signs and symptoms of trauma to the torso
• Recognize the procedures for treating a patient suffering from torso trauma
• Recognize signs and symptoms of spinal cord and/or musculoskeletal trauma
• Recognize the procedures for treating patients suffering from spinal cord and/or musculoskeletal trauma
• Recognize signs and symptoms of burns and the procedures for treating patients suffering from burns
• Recognize signs and symptoms and the procedures for treating patients suffering from toxic substances in the body
• Recognize signs and symptoms and the procedures for treating patients suffering from respiratory emergencies, including positional or restraint asphyxia
• Recognize how to provide aid for patients suffering from seizures
• Recognize how to provide aid for treating patients suffering from diabetic emergencies
• Identify Critical Incident Stress Syndrome (CISS)

Subject Matter Experts

Mike Bardgett is the Supervisor of Instructors with Active Canadian Emergency Training and is a 33 year veteran of the Toronto Police Service, thirteen of which he was an Instructor at the Toronto Police Service's Charles O. Bick College . Mike has been at Active Canadian for the past five years training police officers in First Aid/ CPR and the AED. He is responsible for making this course current to first aid guidelines and more specific to policing in general. Mike can be reached at mbardgett@activecanadian.com.

Dean DiMonte has worked as a Primary Care and Advanced Care Paramedic for more than 18 years. He has gained tremendous experience both as a land and flight Paramedic. He was one of the original Advanced Care Paramedics for Ottawa EMS. Over the past number of years, Dean has trained thousands of First Aid/CPR and AED providers and a number of elite police and military personnel throughout Canada.

Course Details

Third Party Provider: Active Canadian Emergency Training Inc.
Course Type: Blended
Price: Contact Jan Holzinger at Active Canadian Emergency Training/1-800-205-3278
Languages: English
Course Duration: 2 hours (online)
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Date of Last Revision/Review: August 2008