Outdoor Pursuits 16 Hour (VTQ)™ - Online Blended Part 1
Course Content
- Introduction to Outdoor First Aid
- Human Anatomy and Physiology
- Initial Care and Safety
- Fears of First Aid
- Asking permission and consent to help
- Calling the Emergency Services
- What3Words - location app
- Waiting for the E.M.S to arrive
- Calling Mountain Rescue
- Working with Helicopter Rescue
- Multiple casualty Incidents in remote areas
- Scene Safety
- Chain of Survival
- DRcABCDE approach
- Using gloves
- How to use face shields
- Hand Washing
- Bag Valve Masks
- First Aid Kits
- Initial Assessment and Recovery Position - Sport
- The Ten Second Triage Tool
- Using The Ten Second Triage Tool
- Cardiac Arrest and CPR
- Adult CPR Introduction
- When to call for assistance
- Heart Attack
- Three Steps to Save a Life (2025)
- Adult CPR
- Hands only CPR Breakdown
- CPR and the female casualty
- CPR Hand Over
- Resuscitation of children
- AED Introduction
- Using an AED - brief overview and demonstration
- Child CPR
- Update on AED pad placement
- Adolescent CPR
- Drowning
- Effective CPR
- Improving compressions
- Improving breaths
- Near and secondary drowning
- Cold water shock
- Choking Management
- Bleeding Management
- Life-Threatening Bleeding
- Prioritising first aid
- Bleeding assessment
- Hemostatic Dressing or Tourniquet?
- Trauma Dressings
- How Blood Clots in a Cut
- Coagulopathy
- Blood Loss - A Practical Demonstration
- Public access bleed control kit
- Tourniquets and Where to Use Them
- Types of Tourniquets
- Damage caused by tourniquets
- RapidStop Tourniquet
- CAT Tourniquets
- citizenAID Tourni-Key Plus tourniquet
- Improvised Tourniquets
- When Tourniquets Don't Work - Applying a Second
- Woundclot trauma gauze
- How Does Woundclot Work
- The Composition of Woundclot
- Woundclot and knife injuries
- Woundclot and large areas
- Woundclot and direct pressure
- Packing a wound with Woundclot
- Hemostatic Dressings
- Packing a Wound with Celox Z Fold Hemostatic Dressing
- Celox A
- Celox Rapid
- Injuries
- Strains and Sprains and the RICE procedure
- Adult fractures
- Splints
- Kinesiology tape for injuries
- Types of head injury and consciousness
- Dislocated Shoulders and Joints
- Spinal Injury
- Opening the airway Jaw Thrust
- Stabilising the spine
- Spinal Recovery Position
- Eye Injuries
- Foreign object in the eye
- Burns and burn kits
- Treating a burn
- Heat emergencies
- Cold emergencies
- Frost Bite And Frost Nip
- Shock
- Dealing with Fainting
- Chest Injuries
- Abdominal Injuries
- Dental Injuries
- Bites and stings
- Treating Snake Bites
- Blister Care
- Splinters
- Cramp in Sports and Exercise
- Types of Hydration in Sport
- Management of Injuries
- Illness
- Illness assessment and SAMPLE
- Stroke
- Allergic reactions and Anaphylaxis treatment
- Adrenaline nasal spray for anaphylaxis
- Medical ID tags for allergies
- Diabetes
- Asthma
- Asthma Spacers
- When an Asthma inhaler is not available
- Accuhaler®
- Epilepsy
- Epilepsy treatment
- Hyperventilation
- Lyme Disease
- Electrical Injuries
- Extra Subjects
- Summary
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The Nervous System
The nervous system is a communications network throughout the body. It has three basic elements, the first one being sensation, sensation to gather information. Then we have analysis and this is the input of information. And then, finally, we have the response. And this is the response to the information, and then we carry out the appropriate action. There are two parts to the nervous system within the body. The first part is the central nervous system. This contains the brains and the spinal cord. The other nervous system is called the peripheral nervous system. These are the branches of nerves that fall outside of the spinal cord. Now, nerves can be damaged in many ways. One of them would be, for example, by compression.In an example on here, if we turned around... If we turned the skeleton around, and we can see that we have these inter-vertebral discs here if these discs were to press out of in between the two vertical bodies, what would happen? It would press on one of these spinal nerves and that could because, over time, injury to the nerve. People get the sensation called sciatica, which many of you are probably familiar with, and the pain from that can be felt all the way down the back of the leg into the common peroneal nerve, and into the foot, so it can because of quite extensive damage. Another way a nerve can be damaged is, for example, if someone has a very bad ankle break, and they lose feeling in their toes, or in their feet. And it's often because, again, the nerve has either been damaged or compressed. And it's imperative in that situation that that ankle is reduced as soon as possible.
Overview of the Nervous System
This guide explains the structure and function of the nervous system, highlighting its key components and how nerve damage can occur.
Basic Elements of the Nervous System
- Sensation: Gathering information.
- Analysis: Input and processing of information.
- Response: Reacting and taking appropriate action based on the processed information.
Components of the Nervous System
- Central Nervous System: Comprising the brain and spinal cord.
- Peripheral Nervous System: Consisting of nerves extending beyond the spinal cord.
Potential Nerve Damage
Nerves can be damaged due to various reasons, including:
- Compression: Such as spinal nerve compression from herniated intervertebral discs, leading to conditions like sciatica.
- Physical Trauma: For instance, severe ankle breaks affecting nerve function in toes and feet.
Importance of Timely Treatment
Immediate medical attention is crucial in cases of nerve damage to prevent long-term implications and aid recovery.
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