Advanced First Aid for Industry and Fire Applicants
We have offered Advanced First Aid classes to Alberta-based businesses since we began in 1988. We continue to provide this important training and education in a variety of workplaces across the province. Teaching is conducted primarily at the client's workplace helps us to understand their unique workplace hazards, team-member dynamics, and allows us to also consult on important points of observation.
Next class is scheduled for May 2025 in Edmonton. Please contact us to register. info@ccofems.org
Our full-time, 80 hour Educator-led class runs Monday to Friday days for two-weeks. We do not use hybrid or self-study hours to meet our requirment.
Advanced First Aid (AFA) course content meets the Alberta OHS requirements, and exceeds those requirements with the addition of extra certificate training provided. We add the following certificate courses to our Advanced First Aid course:
The Essential of PreHospital Trauma Care Course from the International PreHospital Medicine Institute (IPHMI). This 16 hour trauma certificate course is embedded into our AFA class with certification provided to students meeting the pass-score requirements for written and scenario-based evaluations.
Narcan Administration Provider Course is an additional course offering that we created for the City of Edmonton. It was originally taught to Security personnel, then for the City Peace Officers, Transit Inspectors, and other front-line City workers at risk of exposure to Opioids. This certificate is offered within our AFA class, and addresses lecture and skills including scenario-based evaluations.
Stop the Bleed Certificate Course offered by the American College of Surgeons and the US Department of Defence. We are an approved provider of this course at CCEMS, and offer this unique class to our AFA students. It addresses moderate and severe bleeding control using tradition pressure application, wound-packing with and without Hemostatic gauze, and the use of Tourniquets such as the Cat-Gen7 TQ. Students successfully completing the requirements also practice wound-packing on a bleeding simulator.
02 Therapy & Basic Airway Management Course is included in our AFA class. In this section we address the needs for 02 in medical and trauma patients. We discuss the different needs of breathing and non-breathing patients, the importance of suctioning the upper airway, and the use of oral and nasal airway adjunct devices. Hands-on skills include 02 tank and regulator set-up and troubleshooting, determining appropriate flow rates, and monitoring the patient with diagnostics such as pulse-oximetry to quantify 02 therapy efficacy.