This 1-day level 3 qualification is a fully practical first aid course in dealing with sports and exercise related injuries as well as basic life support. It is suitable for sports coaches, sports therapists, fitness instructors and PE teachers.
There are no pre-requisites to attend this course.
Course content
- Safe best practice and awareness of current regulations
- Sports specific practical scenario training
- A systematic approach to incident management. Primary Survey
- Vital signs
- Airway Management – safe airway positions
- Return to play decisions following on field assessment using SALTAPS
- Recognition of concussion – use of Maddock’s questions
- Soft tissue injuries, strains and sprains – when to and when not to use ice
- CPR Resuscitation procedures – single and multi-person scenarios
- Safe use of an AED (Automated External Defibrillator)
Course Overview
This qualification is for the sports person, coach or spectator. As well as the basic life support and illness management topics found on most first aid courses, this course also includes key sports topics, such as:
- Covering sport emergency first aid
- Sport injury & return to activity decisions using SALTAPS and MADDOCKS Questions
- Managing specialist sports kit such as gum shields
- When to use ice, sprains and strains and immobilising injuries
- Sports specific first aid including head, neck and spinal injuries
- CPR and defibrillator training
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1 Day
£120 per person
This 1-day level 3 qualification is a fully practical first aid course in dealing with sports and exercise related injuries as well as basic life support. It is suitable for sports coaches, sports therapists, fitness instructors and PE teachers.
Typically delivered over 1 day. Assessment is ongoing throughout the course and is
interactive with outdoor scenario based practical training.
The trainer/assessors delivering this course will have a professional background in sport or be active practitioners in their own leisure time, with experience and commitment to working with groups in the sporting environment.
Course cost: £120
Revalidation
This qualification ‘license to practice’ is revalidated by attending another First Aid for
Sport, Exercise and Fitness course in 3 years’ time.
*for upto 12 people within a 50 mile radius of Beverley
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