FAQ Level 3 Award in Immediate Response Emergency Care (RQF) - IREC® Blended Part One
Course Content
- Course Introduction
- Principles of Ambulance Service First Responder Care
- Responsibilities of the First Responder
- The Importance of Being Physically and Mentally Fit to Perform the Role
- Protecting Yourself from Potentially Malicious Allegations
- Methods of Continuing Professional Development
- Asking permission and consent to help
- The Hazards that Pose a Risk to Personal Safety
- Actions to Manage Conflict
- Facts And Information About Abuse
- What causes someone to be vulnerable?
- Who might abuse or neglect
- Who Is A Vulnerable Adult?
- Abuse and its Indicators
- Duty of care
- What is Duty of Candour?
- Why is Duty of Candour Important?
- When Things Go Wrong
- Working as Part of a Team
- The purpose of the Equality Act 2010
- Types of discrimination
- Protected characteristics
- Human anatomy and physiology for immediate emergency care
- Assessment of casualties in immediate emergency care
- Complex Scene safety scenario
- Assessing a Major Incident Scene
- DRCA(c)BCDE
- Calling the Emergency Services
- What3Words - location app
- Alternative emergency phone numbers
- Introduction to Initial Patient Care
- Consent to help
- Fears of First Aid
- Waiting for the E.M.S to arrive
- Chain of Survival
- How to use face shields
- Hand Washing
- Waterless hand gels
- Medications and First Aid
- The Ten Second Triage Tool
- Using The Ten Second Triage Tool
- How are 999 Calls Handled
- Basic airway management in emergency care
- Respiration and Breathing
- Postural Drainage
- Peak Flow
- Pocket Masks
- Pocket Mask with Oxygen
- Bag Valve Mask Equipment
- Using a BVM
- Respiratory Injuries Part Three
- Respiratory Injuries Part Four
- Choking Statistics
- Choking Recognition
- Adult Choking
- Choking in children
- Infant Choking
- Trauma from Choking
- Vulnerable People and Choking
- Basic life support and external defibrillation
- Adult CPR Introduction
- RCUK & ERC Resus Guidelines
- When to call for assistance
- Three Steps to Save a Life (2025)
- Cardiac Arrest and CPR Overview
- Adult CPR
- CPR Hand Over
- Compressions Only CPR
- Mouth to Stoma Ventilations
- CPR and the female casualty
- Cardiac Arrest and Pregnancy
- Paediatric Airway
- Child CPR
- Adolescent CPR
- Infant CPR
- Infant Recovery Position
- Cardiac Arrest and the Drowned Patient
- Drowning
- SADS
- Effective CPR
- Improving compressions
- Improving breaths
- AED Introduction
- Types of AED Units
- AED Setup
- How to Use an AED
- Using an AED on an adolescent
- Child AED
- Using an AED on an infant
- Update on AED pad placement
- AED Maintenance
- AED Pads
- AED Batteries
- AED Troubleshooting
- AED Locations
- Community AED Units
- AED Post Resuscitation Procedures
- CPR Risks
- Advanced Decision and DNR CPR in Basic Life Support
- Recognition and Management of Life Extinct
- Post Resusitation Care
- Real time CPR scenario
- ROSC Care
- Paediatric Triage and Assessment
- Management of medical conditions
- Asthma
- Asthma Spacers
- When an Asthma inhaler is not available
- Accuhaler®
- Heart Attack
- Warning signs of cardiac arrest and heart attack
- Heart Attack Position
- Aspirin and the Aspod
- Stable angina
- Hypertension
- Pulse Oximetry
- Epilepsy
- Epilepsy treatment
- Meningitis
- Diabetes
- Blood Sugar Testing
- Poisons and Food Poisoning
- Near and secondary drowning
- Cold water shock
- Shock
- Distributive Shock
- Obstructive Shock
- Pneumothorax
- Types of Pneumothorax
- Tension Pneumothorax
- Intoxicated casualties
- Administration of Medications
- Support the emergency care of wounds, bleeding and burns
- The Pulse
- Capillary Refill
- The Healing Process
- Types of Bleed
- Serious Bleeding
- Ambulance Dressings
- Excessive Blood Loss
- Excessive Bleeding Control
- Blood Loss - A Practical Demonstration
- Embedded Objects
- Knife Wounds
- Trauma and Standard Dressings
- Using trauma dressings
- Amputation Treatment
- Blast Injuries
- Hemostatic Dressing or Tourniquet?
- Air Wrap Dressings
- RapidStop Tourniquet
- CAT Tourniquets
- SOFT-T tourniquet
- STAT Tourniquets
- Improvised Tourniquets
- Tourniquets and Where to Use Them
- Damage caused by tourniquets
- When Tourniquets Don't Work - Applying a Second
- Hemostatic Dressings
- What is Woundclot?
- Woundclot trauma gauze
- How Does Woundclot Work
- Woundclot and knife injuries
- Woundclot and large areas
- Packing a Wound with Celox Z Fold Hemostatic Dressing
- Celox A
- Celox Granules
- Monitoring a Patient
- Coagulopathy
- Burns and burn kits
- Treating a burn
- Management of injuries
- Prioritising first aid
- Pelvic Injuries
- Spinal Injuries
- Rapid Extrication
- SAM Pelvic Sling
- Box Splints
- Spinal Injury
- Opening the airway Jaw Thrust
- Stabilising the spine
- Spinal Recovery Position
- Introduction to Spinal Boards
- The spinal board
- Using the Spinal Board
- The Scoop Stretcher
- Using the scoop stretcher
- Cervical collars
- Vertical C-Spine Immobilisation
- Joint examination
- Adult fractures
- Types of fracture
- Horizontal Slings
- Management of trauma
- Elevated Slings
- Lower limb immobilisation
- Elevation Techniques
- Helmet Removal
- Different Types of Helmets
- The Carry Chair
- Applying Plasters
- Strains and Sprains and the RICE procedure
- Eye Injuries
- Electrical Injuries
- Foreign objects in the eye, ears or nose
- Nose bleeds
- Bites and stings
- Chest Injuries
- Foxseal chest seals
- Abdominal Injuries
- Treating Snake Bites
- Types of head injury and consciousness
- ACVPU
- Dislocated Shoulders and Joints
- Other Types of Injury
- Dental Injuries
- Trauma Scenario Examples
- Recognition and management of anaphylaxis
- What is Anaphylaxis
- Living with Anaphylaxis
- Minor allergic reactions
- Common causes of allergic reactions
- What is an Auto-Injector?
- Jext®
- EpiPen®
- Adrenaline nasal spray for anaphylaxis
- Storage and disposal
- Who prescribes auto injectors?
- Checking Auto Injector and Expiry Dates
- Signs and Symptoms of Anaphylaxis
- Basic First Aid Advice
- Schools and teachers
- Giving a second dose
- Biphasic Anaphylactic Response
- Administration of oxygen therapy
- What are Medical Gasses
- Oxygen
- When Oxygen is Used
- Contra Indications Of Oxygen
- Hazards of using oxygen
- Hypoxia
- BOC Oxygen Kit
- The BOC Cylinder
- Storage Of Oxygen
- PIN INDEX cylinder
- Oxygen Regulators
- Standard oxygen cylinder
- Transport of Cylinders
- How long does an Oxygen cylinder last?
- Oxygen and Anaphylaxis
- Demand Valves and MTV's
- Non Rebreather Mask
- Nasal Cannula
- Medical gas storage
- Mental Health
- Recognising mental ill health
- Mental Health definition and terminology
- Mental health, stereotyping, stigma and discrimination
- Who can be affected and what are the common triggers
- What is stress
- Anxiety
- Types of mental ill health
- Starting a discussion
- Supporting someone with suicidal thoughts
- What is signposting
- Self-harm and suicide risk
- Course Summary and your Practical Part
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What we are going to do now is talk to Di, who is a diabetic, on the actual kit that she is using, how she would test her blood sugar and the sort of intervals. So Di, could you show us the kit that you are actually using?Yeah.You would always carry that kit with you, would you?Pretty much so, yeah.Yeah.Yeah.And how regularly would you test your blood?I do mine a couple of times a day, first thing in the morning and sometimes during the evening after an evening meal.And then other diabetics would have different patterns according to them?They would depend on how much insulin they have to take.And in an emergency situation, you would maybe do it again if you started feeling unwell?Oh yes, if I start to feel unwell, I would grab it and do another one.Can you show us the components for your kit?Yeah. In here are the testing strips, which come like that. And that bit goes into the top there, then you take your needle, prime it, and then click. And then the blood comes out and you lay that on there until that strip has absolutely filled and then just wait for it to register on the screen.So, that is showing your sugar levels are now 5.1.5.1, which is pretty good. And then you can also register whether it is before a meal, or after a meal because it does make a difference. If you are low before a meal then that is fine. If you are that after a meal, then that is a little bit low. It needs to go up a little bit more before it comes down again.Would you store data on this as well?Yes.So the doctors... Would you download that and keep that or is it just if you need it?You can do. You can download it. I do not think this particular model you can, but some of them you can plug into a computer and keep a track on that, but this stores the information so you can go to your doctor and show them.So from a first aid or emergency perspective, we could look at the previous ratings you have had...You could.Maybe even for the last week or whatever...Yep. Absolutely.And see what is what.Absolutely. And then you have got the results log, that will show you the one I have just done, and that was at 7:20 this morning when I got up. And then you can scroll down for weeks.So, in an emergency situation, we might do this slightly different because the responder has got the blood-sugar tester, but they would need independent lances to actually take the blood, so they would use a lance like this, which you can prime and pop on the finger and take the blood. Once you have dealt with this, you can dispose of it correctly in the hazardous waste. With Di, she would... The tester is just for her. So at the end of when you need to dispose of stuff and change the needles, how would you then dispose of those?I have got one of the hazardous boxes at home that I put it in. When that is full, take it to the chemist and they give you a new one.So it is very similar to that with the first-aid side, that we would put our rubbish in the hazardous waste, and then we can dispose of it correctly and safely. This is one type of pricking device. There are lots of different types. And also there are lots of different brands of blood-sugar testers, so make sure you read the instructions and follow them very clearly.
Diabetic Blood Sugar Testing: Interview with Di
Introduction
In this interview, we discuss blood sugar testing with Di, who has diabetes, including her testing kit and procedure.
Di's Testing Routine
Di tests her blood sugar levels a couple of times a day, typically in the morning and sometimes in the evening after a meal.
Testing Kit Components
Di demonstrates her kit, which includes:
- Testing Strips: Used to measure blood sugar levels.
- Needle: Primed and used to obtain a blood sample.
- Blood Sugar Monitor: Displays blood sugar readings.
Data Management
The monitor stores test results, allowing Di to track her readings over time. Some monitors can be connected to a computer for further analysis.
Disposal of Waste
Di safely disposes of used needles and other hazardous waste in a designated hazardous waste box. When full, she takes it to the chemist for proper disposal.
First Aid Considerations
In emergency situations, responders may need independent lances to obtain blood samples for testing. Used items should be disposed of properly to ensure safety.
Conclusion
Understanding the procedure for blood sugar testing, including equipment usage and disposal, is essential for diabetic management and first aid preparedness.
- IPOSi Unit four LO2.1, 2.2, 2.3 & 2.4
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