Instructor Preparation - Online Blended Part 1
Course Content
- Instructor preparation and update course introduction
- FAW Blended Part One Introduction and Regulations
- The Human Body
- First Aid the Initial Steps
- Asking permission and consent to help
- Calling the Emergency Services
- What3Words - location app
- Waiting for the E.M.S to arrive
- Scene Safety
- Chain of Survival
- DR ABC and the ABCD'S
- Using gloves
- How to use face shields
- Hand Washing
- Waterless hand gels
- Initial Assessment and Recovery Position
- BSi First Aid Kit
- Cardiac Arrest and Heart Conditions
- Adult CPR Introduction
- Heart Attack
- Heart Attack Position
- Aspirin and the Aspod
- Respiration and Breathing
- Pulse Points
- When to call for assistance
- Adult CPR
- Effective CPR
- Improving breaths
- Improving compressions
- Compressions Only CPR
- CPR Hand Over
- Seizures and Cardiac Arrest
- Drowning
- AED Introduction
- Using an AED - brief overview and demonstration
- Choking Management
- Bleeding Control
- Catastrophic Bleeding
- Why is this Training Now Required?
- Prioritising first aid
- Bleeding assessment
- Hemostatic Dressing or Tourniquet?
- Tourniquets and Where to Use Them
- Types of Tourniquets
- Improvised Tourniquets
- When Tourniquets Don't Work - Applying a Second
- Hemostatic Dressings
- Packing a Wound with Celox Z Fold Hemostatic Dressing
- The Woundclot range
- How Does Woundclot Work
- Woundclot features
- Woundclot and direct pressure
- Packing a wound with Woundclot
- Woundclot and knife crime injuries
- Woundclot and large areas
- Shock and Spinal Injury
- Injuries
- Secondary Care Introduction
- Injury Assessment
- Strains and Sprains and the RICE procedure
- Adult fractures
- Splints
- Dislocated Shoulders and Joints
- Types of head injury and consciousness
- Eye Injuries
- Foreign object in the eye
- Burns and burn kits
- Treating a burn
- Blister Care
- Electrical Injuries
- Abdominal Injuries
- Chest Injuries
- Heat emergencies
- Cold emergencies
- Dental Injuries
- Bites and stings
- Treating Snake Bites
- Splinters
- Illness
- Introduction to Paediatric and Adult First Aid
- Paediatric CPR and Choking
- Specific Paediatric Conditions
- How to use an AED
- Extra Subjects to allow you to teach specialist courses
- Teaching Equipment
- Summary
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When we're doing first aid, we look at someone's pulse. What we're going to do now is have a look at the different places on the body that you can detect a pulse. Now looking at the pulse points within the body, where can you detect a pulse on somebody? Your primary pulse point would be your radial pulse, which is found on your wrist just below your thumb. You should be able to feel your own pulse, so that would be your starting point. Then working up your arm you have a brachial pulse. And then you also have one into the neck as well, which is your carotid pulse. Other pulses that you are able to detect would be your femoral pulses, which is just to where your leg and groin bend. You also have another pulse behind the knee, which is your popliteal pulse. And then on top of the foot is your pedal pulse. And you should be able to feel all of your own pulses. When you take your pulses, obviously you're going to use one hand. The only pulse you would ever use... You would never use two hands, is the carotid. You would only ever feel one side at one time. And what sort of things are you feeling for? You're feeling to actually... Can you actually feel the pulse pass through underneath your fingers? And you'll feel it just bounce slowly under your fingers. And If you can't find it, just have a fiddle around. You will eventually find it. Just slight pressure on the wrist. If you press too deep, obviously, it will just feel as though you can't feel anything. Just come off very slightly. You will find it. You just have to have a dig around and find it in there. Will the pulse points... Will that indicate blood pressure at all? If you lost a pulse point in a certain part of the body? Yes. Normally the radial pulse is... When somebody becomes unwell, the body is incredibly clever and it will protect the vital organs, so it will protect the brain, the heart, and all the internal organs. When you become unwell, you will lose what's called your peripheral pulses, so you'll lose your radial pulse, you will lose your pedal pulse, and then you'll slowly lose the pulses and it this will protect the main area of the body. Your carotid pulse you should never lose unless of course you have a cardiac arrest or you die.
Finding Pulse Points on the Body
Primary Pulse Point: Radial Pulse
The main pulse point to locate is the radial pulse:
- Location: It's found on your wrist, just below your thumb.
- Technique: Use two fingers with gentle pressure to detect it.
- Sensation: You'll feel it pulsate against your fingers.
- Note: Avoid using your thumb and use only one hand.
Additional Pulse Points
Other pulse points on the body include:
- Brachial Pulse: Located further up your arm.
- Carotid Pulse: Found on your neck.
- Femoral Pulse: Situated where your leg and groin bend.
- Popliteal Pulse: Detectable behind your knee.
- Pedal Pulse: On top of the foot.
Pulse as a Health Indicator
Your pulse can indicate your health:
If you're unwell:
- You may lose peripheral pulses, starting with the radial pulse and pedal pulse.
- This protects the vital areas of your body.
- Carotid pulse loss occurs in cases of cardiac arrest or death.