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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In this video we are going to look at embedded objects. An embedded object is where something goes into the body. Some examples are a knife, glass or a piece of wood. What we are covering in this video is an embedded object that needs to be secured and bleeding controlled. The important thing we do when we treat an embedded object is to never remove it. You may have to tell the patient to leave it where it is as sometimes people want to try and remove the item. If there is a piece of glass in the body and you remove it, you will make it worse. The glass itself is bunging up the hole and also glass cuts when it goes in and if you pull it out again it is likely to make even worse cut on the way out. Another example of this may be someone with a knife wound. If they have a knife in their body, the knife is bunging up the hole. It may be that the knife is close to an artery so when you remove it, you could actually cut the artery again making things worse. There are reports within the medical profession of people who died due to stab wounds and doctors say if the knife had been left in, they would have more of a chance of saving the person. With your gloves on, what you need to do is take two dressings, apply them either side of the item to prevent it from moving and to help control bleeding. We then use another dressing to carefully bandage that in place. Make sure you don't push down on the item making the injury worse. You can cut the bandage to allow the glass to come through the dressing. The two dressings on either side of the piece of glass are used to hold it in place and the dressings are there to support the whole thing. Once you put the bandage on, check the bleeding to make sure you have controlled the bleeding and depending on where the injury is, immobilise it the best you can. In this example you may be able to elevate the hand into an elevation sling, but it's important to make sure that you don't put the sling over the piece of glass which causes it to push in. Make sure that there is nothing going to happen to make the situation worse during transport to the hospital. Depending on where you are and the extent of the injury, call the EMS or transport them to the hospital as soon as possible.
Embedded Object First Aid Guide
Understanding Embedded Objects
In first aid, when an object penetrates the body through the skin, it's referred to as an embedded object.
Handling Small Embedded Objects
Small particles like dirt or grit can be rinsed off under a tap, and objects adhered to the skin can be removed if it's safe:
- Grains of dirt or grit can be washed off.
- Items stuck to the skin can be removed if safe to do so.
Treating Larger Embedded Objects
Larger objects, such as glass or knives, require careful handling:
- Removing the object may worsen the injury and cause serious harm.
- If a knife is lodged in a wound near an artery, removing it could cut the artery during extraction.
- The knife may be preventing further blood loss by plugging the wound.
First Aid Protocol
As a first aider, take the following steps when encountering an embedded object:
- Leave the object in the body.
- Put on gloves.
- Use dressings to reduce bleeding and immobilize the embedded object.
- Ensure dressings or slings don't exert pressure on the object, pushing it further into the wound.
Seek Emergency Medical Care
It's crucial to obtain professional medical assistance as quickly as possible.
- IPOSi Unit three LO3.1, 3.2, 3.3 & 3.4
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