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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Safe storage and management of medical gases. Remember, they are medical gases, they are classed as drugs. So when they are stored, most important thing is that they are stored in an appropriate place. It needs to be lockable, it needs to be well ventilated, it needs to be large enough and we need to have a process, if we are storing more than a couple of bottles, to make sure that the date stamps on the bottles are changed on a regular basis. So we should have a log-in and a log-out of all medical gases and a date stamp on all medical gases which tracks them through the process, so we are not using the same bottles time and time again and we are refreshing cylinders on a regular basis. Remember, oxygen, in particular, is very, very flammable; it burns at an extremely high temperature, and it ignites. Medical gases ignite very easily and burn very hot, so we have to make sure that no oxygen gets in contact with greases and oils which will combust very easily. And naked flames and lights and the temperature of the room we are storing it have to be at a normal room temperature, preferably outside, but it has to be locked at all times. Remember, when we are exchanging bottles either in or out of the stores or from our car to an address or vice versa, dropping the bottles we have to be careful. These bottles are made of aluminium, carbon fibre or sometimes steel, in the olden days, but they're very easily damaged. The actual regulators are plastic, the actual headsets are plastic, and they are there to protect the contents, gauges to protect the regulators. If we drop it on the head and it is very, very easy to actually smash off the regulator or smash off the valves that supply the oxygen. And if that happens, we will then either have assumed we can't use any more on the patient we need to use it on, or we will have a projectile because the pressure of the oxygen in the cylinder will come out at a very high speed and send the bottle flying across the floor or around the room at high speed becoming a danger, and also increasing the danger of damage from the oxygen coming out under pressure. Entonox is the same, we have to be careful how we handle it and make sure that we don't drop it. Remember, the organization or the response group that you work with or the ambulance service that you are connected to, will have their own policies and procedures for you and what you can and can not and how you do and how you don't store and look after your oxygen cylinders. Most first response groups will come underneath their ambulance services policies and procedures for the storage and often an exchange of oxygen. Really important that when this is in your kit or in your car or your vehicle, that it is always fixed down. It should never be allowed to just roll around in the boot and be free-flowing in the back, because in the incident of a bump or a crash or you turn sharply or skid, the bottle becomes a projectile, which can be lethal inside a confined space, I.e, your car. So if it is in your kit bag, your kit bag needs to be in a storage place in the boot of the car. If it's not in your kit bag and you are carrying more than one cylinder, there should be a storage container inside the boot of your car where the bottles can be stored and fixed in place so they don't become loose and become a weapon or a free-flowing object in the car under situations where the car may be involved in a crash or a skid. Safety comes first. This is a lethal gas if not looked after properly. And one final bit to remember is that empty and full cylinders should be always stored separately. The regulator gauge on the bottle should be changed when the bottle is roughly a quarter full. We like to leave a little bit of pressure inside the bottle so stop infection and contaminants getting into the bottle, and if we drain the bottle completely dry, infection and contaminants actually come into the bottle itself. It is a sterile environment inside the bottle and needs to remain that way. So when the bottle becomes just below a quarter full, it's time to exchange for a new one, but make sure when we're going to the storage that empty bottles and full bottles are stored separately and we have a log of both. Always check your cylinder is full. It is very easy to pick the wrong bottle out of the stores if we don't have an organized approach, and we then reload our bag with a bottle that's got less in it than the one we put back in storage. So always check before you start any shift before you start going out on a job, and every time you change your cylinders make sure they are full.
Safe Storage and Handling of Medical Gases
Appropriate Storage
Key Considerations:
- Medical gases are classified as drugs and require proper storage.
- Store in a lockable, well-ventilated area of sufficient size.
- Implement a system for regularly changing date stamps on gas cylinders.
- Keep a log of all medical gas transactions to monitor cylinder usage.
Flammability and Safety
Handling Precautions:
- Oxygen and medical gases are highly flammable; they ignite at high temperatures.
- Prevent contact with greases and oils to avoid combustion.
- Store at normal room temperature in a locked area, preferably outdoors.
Safe Cylinder Handling
Protective Measures:
- Exercise caution when exchanging cylinders to avoid damage.
- Cylinders are made of materials like aluminium, carbon fibre, or steel.
- The regulator, headsets, and gauges are plastic and vulnerable to impact.
- Securely fasten cylinders to prevent them from becoming projectiles in case of accidents.
Organizational Policies
Compliance and Guidelines:
- Adhere to your organization's policies and procedures for oxygen cylinder storage and exchange.
Secure Storage in Vehicles
Vehicle Safety:
- Fix cylinders in place inside the vehicle to prevent them from rolling during travel.
- Never allow cylinders to roam freely inside the vehicle, especially in the event of a collision.
- Keep cylinders in a kit bag or storage container in the car's boot (trunk).
Separate Empty and Full Cylinders
Proper Organization:
- Empty and full cylinders should always be stored separately.
- Change the regulator gauge when cylinders are around a quarter full to maintain pressure and sterility.
- Regularly check cylinder contents to ensure they are full before use.
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