Award: FAA Level 3 Ofqual regulated certificate
Duration: 6 hours/1 day
Maximum numbers: 12
Individual cost: £75
Typical group cost: £360 for up to 12 students including Ofqual regulated certificates. Please contact us for our best price which meets your requirements.
Forthcoming courses:
Please contact us if you are interested and we will be delighted to arrange a course with you.
Immediate Management of Anaphylaxis
Who the course is for…
Qualified First Aiders and Emergency First Aiders, health care professionals as well as those in a high risk environment where anaphylaxis medication is available, giving them a more in-depth knowledge of anaphylaxis and the ability to recognise and treat it safely and effectively.
Skills you will take away…
Practical and theoretical knowledge of an anaphylactic shock, or anaphylaxis, is a life-threatening, serious allergic reaction to an allergen such as food substances or insect stings. This course will help you to recognise and differentiate between allergic reactions and the potentially life-threatening anaphylactic reactions and give you the practical skills to treat it.
What you will learn…
• To describe anaphylaxis
• About the triggers for anaphylaxis
• To describe and treat life threatening problems associated with airway, breathing, circulation, disability (neurological) and exposure (skin and mucosal changes).
• The need to call for help early
• About the treatment for anaphylaxis:
- Non re-breather mask
- Removal of trigger
- Auto-injector
- Identify key features of adrenaline-auto injectors
- Conduct an initial assessment using the ABCDE approach
- Demonstrate a recovery position
- Demonstrate resuscitation for adult and/or child
- Recognise the need to use an auto-injector
- Prepare medication for administration during anaphylaxis treatment
- Demonstrate the safe use of an adrenaline auto-injector using a training device
- Safely dispose of sharps according to agreed ways of working
- Handover the casualty to a medical professional
To do this course you will need…
A willingness to learn about the treatment of anaphylaxis, and to use that knowledge and skills if the need arises.
Physical ability to perform practical first aid activities, including CPR (please contact us if you wish to discuss this).
Other things you may want to know…
A practical and informative course, giving you the skills to cope in an emergency anaphylaxis situation.
Please wear comfortable shoes and clothes.