BASIC FIRST AID
Basic First Aid courses teach participants how to provide first aid during an emergency, either for ill or injured people, whether it is at home, on the street, at work or elsewhere in the community. Participants will learn the skills required to manage emergencies until professional help arrives.
Both courses are highly interactive incorporating different media including video clips and audio files. All courses comply with international standards for first aid as well as with Swiss regulations.
Customers can choose between two different basic First Aid courses. The information covered in both courses includes
The set up and functioning of Swiss and European Emergency Rescue Services are explained in all first aid and BLS courses.
Both courses are highly interactive incorporating different media including video clips and audio files. All courses comply with international standards for first aid as well as with Swiss regulations.
Customers can choose between two different basic First Aid courses. The information covered in both courses includes
- Impairment of consciousness
- Introduction to CPR
- Wounds and bleeding
- Breathing problems
- Allergic reactions and anaphylactic shock
- Convulsions, concussion and head injury
- Fractures and sprains
- Burns and scalding
The set up and functioning of Swiss and European Emergency Rescue Services are explained in all first aid and BLS courses.
This skills-based course trains participants who either wish or require a basic first aid training. They will learn the skills and the knowledge to manage a medical emergency, no matter whether dealing with an injury or an illness, until medical help has arrived. This course does not include AED training.
Course duration
8 hours
Certification
Certification is available and is valid for 3 years.
Details
For more information, send me an email or contact me here.
This comprehensive and highly interactive course builds on the Compact First Aid course. Participants apply skills and procedures learned using an immersion approach of role-play, scenarios and brain-storming. Assessment is ongoing during this course. This course includes AED training.
Course duration
16 hours
Certification
Certification is available and is valid for 3 years.
Details
For more information, send me an email or contact me here.
TICKS
If a course is held in an area endemic with ticks, prevention, management of tick bites, immunisation against TBE andgeneral information about ticks is included.
Not sure whether you live in an endemic area? Visit the website of the Bundesamt für Gesundheit (Federal Health Office Switzerland) BAG and check out their tick map (last update December 2011). Note: This particular BAG page is available only in German and French but you can still read the list of locations affected. For questions or if you would like a translation of the document, please contact me.
If a course is held in an area endemic with ticks, prevention, management of tick bites, immunisation against TBE andgeneral information about ticks is included.
Not sure whether you live in an endemic area? Visit the website of the Bundesamt für Gesundheit (Federal Health Office Switzerland) BAG and check out their tick map (last update December 2011). Note: This particular BAG page is available only in German and French but you can still read the list of locations affected. For questions or if you would like a translation of the document, please contact me.
TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS
In many areas in Switzerland, ticks can transmit two different pathogenic germs to humans: the bacterium (Borrelia burgdorferi) causing Lyme Disease and the virus causing Tick Borne Encephalitis (TBE).
You can find some information in English about TBE on these websites: www.tickalert.org
In many areas in Switzerland, ticks can transmit two different pathogenic germs to humans: the bacterium (Borrelia burgdorferi) causing Lyme Disease and the virus causing Tick Borne Encephalitis (TBE).
You can find some information in English about TBE on these websites: www.tickalert.org
and WebMD
No time to attend a public First Aid course? Or would you like to design your own course?
Contact me to host your own course or to discuss a custom-tailored course.
Contact me to host your own course or to discuss a custom-tailored course.
My mission
To provide my customers with the highest quality first aid training in English in a non-English speaking environment.
Contact me
Luitgard Holzleg
Telephone:
+41 (79) 827 8670
Email:
info@healthyandsafe.biz
Telephone:
+41 (79) 827 8670
Email:
info@healthyandsafe.biz
Where I am
I am located near Zurich, Switzerland but provide on-site training across Switzerland, North Italy, France and Germany.