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Standard First Aid with CPRC and AED Skills

Who should take Standard First Aid with CPRC and AED Skills Training?

Workplace Requirements

  • Workplaces with 6 or more workers on any one shift must hold Standard First Aid with CPRC and AED Skills. This course is recognized under the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB). 


Professional Designations

  • Standard First Aid with CPRC and AED Skills is required for all: Early Childhood Educators (E.C.E.), Personal Support Workers (PSW) recommended CPR HCP/BLS)),  Developmental Service Workers (DSW), Security Guard/Correctional Officer, Police Officers (recommended CPR HCP/BLS)
  • Standard First Aid with CPR-HCP/BLS and AED Skills is required for all: Firefighters, Paramedic, Nurses, Dentists/Dental Hygienists 


(If you would like to add CPR-HCP/BLS Training to your Standard First Aid course instead of CPRC and AED Skills, please call us and we will provide you with a private link for booking this upgrade.)

Course Description (Click each section for more details)

Standard First Aid with CPRC and AED Skills is a more in depth training program consisting of an on-line self study portion (Code 8 EMS courses only) and an eight hour in-person skills session. Listed below are the additional topics covered in Standard First Aid.

201 - Course Introduction

Understanding the Emergency Medical System and the role of a First Aider. First Aid definition and goals. Legal issues in rendering emergency care including the Good Samaritan Act.

202 - Emergency Scene Management

Surveying the incident scene for hazards to protect the rescuer and others. Identifying life-threatening situations and providing urgent care. Looking for other injuries or problems while providing on-going care. Transferring the victim to more appropriate care and after incident procedures such as writing notes and making reports.

203 - Primary Survey and Shock

Identify and treat life threatening conditions including breathing, bleeding, chest, pelvic and thighbone injuries. Use spinal precautions, recovery position and awareness of shock.

204 - On-Going Care

Monitoring, comforting and reassuring the victim. Transferring care to professional responders or a health care facility. 

205- Heart Disease and Heart Attack

Basic understanding of the circulatory system, narrowing arteries and high blood pressure. Angina and heart attack signs and symptoms. Recognizing possible stroke. Actions needed in a heart or stroke situation including assisting the victim with their own medications.

206 - Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Sudden Cardiac Arrest results from a disruption to the heart’s electrical system. Understanding that this can happen to anyone, at any age even with no previous heart conditions. Recognize the signs of cardiac arrest and understand that every second counts in providing rapid care.

207 - Chain of Survival

Only rapid action might save the life of a sudden cardiac arrest victim. These actions include: Early recognition and activating 9-1-1. Early CPR to buy some time. Rapid defibrillation to treat the underlying heart electrical malfunction. Rapid advanced cardiac life support and advanced care in  a post cardiac arrest treatment facility.

208- CPR (Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation)

Checking responsiveness, providing chest compressions and opening the airway are all important first steps. Discussing whether a rescuer should breathe for the patient. Mechanics of CPR positions for adult, child and infant and delivering high quality chest compressions. Individual and Team CPR. 

209 - AED (Automated External Defibrillator)

Defibrillators are small, lightweight, portable and battery operated devices that provides and electric shock to a fibrillating (quivering) heart. Using the AED is simple and straightforward. Prepare the chest, attach the electrodes and follow instructions. 

210 - Foreign Body Airway Obstruction (Choking)

Recognize the difference between mild and severe choking.  Understand the treatment options for conscious, unconscious and pregnant choking victims.

211 - Advanced Bleeding Control

Recognize and treat severe life-threatening bleeding situations with direct pressure or military style tourniquets and wound packing techniques. 

212 - Bleeding Injuries

Recognize internal bleeding. Treat amputations, abdominal injury, minor head and facial wounds, nose bleeds and other common bleeding conditions. 

213 - Wounds and Bandaging

Understand different types of wounds and learn to clean and disinfect a wound with BZK Towelettes. Using adhesive bandages, dressings and bandaging materials.

214 - Animal Bites

All bites are potentially dangerous. Snake and insect bites may involve dangerous venoms which can cause major bleeding, breathing distress and allergic reactions. Ticks and leech bites may cause infections and lyme disease.

215 - Burns

Burn scene safety and prevention measures. Burn classification by mechanism, depth of injury and severity. Treating thermal, chemical, electrical and radiation burns.

216 - Medical Emergencies

Recognizing and treating diabetic, epileptic, asthmatic and allergic reaction emergencies.

217 - Secondary Survey

The Secondary Survey includes gathering and recording important information including vital signs (pulse, respirations, skin condition, eye reactivity and level of awareness) patient history and a head to  toe survey to determine other injuries.

218 - First Aid Team

Teamwork is essential when dealing with a serious illness or injury. Whether as part of a workplace response team or pulling various people out of a crowd to help, the Team approach co-ordinates the actions of everyone to deliver the best possible care to the ill or injured person.

219 - Biohazards

Stresses the steps that first aiders must take to protect themselves from potentially deadly diseases like AIDS-HIV, Hepatitis C, Meningitis, COVID-19 and many others. In the scene survey identify hazards you can see, hear, feel and smell. With biohazards what you can’t see can kill you.

220 - Shock - The Golden Hour

Explores the relationship of time from injury to critical surgical intervention. Sixty minutes, The Golden Hour, is a concept developed by Dr. R Adams Cowley, founder of the world’s’ first shock-trauma centre in Baltimore. Basic understanding of the stages of shock and that shock kills. Discusses the importance of an Emergency Medical Response Plan.

221 - Poisons

Types of poisons and how they enter the body including prevention strategies. Importance of incident history and victim signs and symptoms. Basic first aid measures and contacting poison control.

222 - Eye Injuries

Reviews methods to prevent eye injury. Explains how to examine the eyes and to remove a small particle from the eye as well as treatment of an object embedded in the eye. Includes avulsed eye, wounds around the eye and burns to the eye.

223 - Environmental Injuries

Significance of heat loss and first aid for frostbite and hypothermia. Recognizing heat illnesses including heat stroke. 

224- Head, Neck, Chest, Pelvic and Skeletal Injuries

Injuries to bone, muscle and tendons range from simple sprains and strains to dislocations and fractures. Stabilizing the head and neck is important to prevent further spinal cord damage. Chest injuries may impede respirations. Pelvic and skeletal injuries can result in life-threatening bleeding.