Emergency First Response with Academy of Scuba
Learn the essentials of First Aid when dealing with diving and non-diving injuries.
Anyone interested in adventure sports should have first aid and CPR training, just in case. This Emergency First Response Course includes both primary and secondary care training, such as CPR, AED, and first aid. These abilities are also required for the PADI Rescue Diver Course.
Emergency First Response is a PADI affiliate that specializes in teaching essential lifesaving techniques to non-divers as well. The majority of PADI instructors are also EFR instructors!
COMPREHENSIVE
Imagine being confident to give primary or secondary care to someone in need of help. Would you be confident and comfortable to give care if you hadn’t practiced? We don’t think so! For that reason we take our time with this first aid training course and ensure that every skills that is taught is practiced again and again, until you are comfortable
CONVENIENT
Our central location in Camberwell makes it easy to find us. In two evenings, you will have the skills and confidence to give primary or secondary care to someone in need of assistance.
ESSENTIAL
Includes BLS (Basic Life Support), CPR, AED use and First Aid training.
Course Price And Duration
$175 | 2 evenings
Course Combo Deal! Book with PADI Rescue Diver and PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider and save! Contact staff for details.
Important Notes
To start the Emergency First Response courses, you must care about other people and want to be able to assist them in a medical emergency.
If you are also completing the PADI Rescue Diver course, you will need to fill out a medical questionnaire. If there are any ‘yes’ answers you will need to get a recreational dive medical from an accredited dive doctor listed here.
Course Content
Home Study
You will learn…
- BLS (Basic Life Support)
- CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation)
- Rescue breathing – so you can perform this comfortably should you need to.
- AED (automated external defibrillator) use.
- Preventing and caring for shock.
- Spinal injury management.
- Use of barriers to reduce disease transmission risk.
- Basic first aid training and first aid kit considerations.
Diving Doctors
If you are also completing the PADI Rescue Diver course, you will need to fill out a medical questionnaire. If there are any ‘yes’ answers you will need to get a recreational dive medical from an accredited dive doctor listed here.
Next Steps
Beside the Primary and Secondary Care Courses, Emergency First Response also offers Care for Children and other emergency training programs. After completing Primary and Secondary Care, take the PADI Rescue Diver course and the PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider course. Together, these three courses round out your ability to handle scuba diver emergencies. For more information about this or other PADI courses have a chat with one of the Academy of Scuba team members.
