First Aid Approach: Recognise and Respond to Unwell Adults

Here students will learn about the fundamentals of how to complete an A - E assessment.

Within this lecture learn about the pathophysiology - the bodily changes, the signs and symptoms, plus risk factors associated with ten common life threatening conditions.

Welcome to the practical video section of this module. Here we will introduce you to the skills needed to successfully complete a high quality A-E assessment.

Please listen carefully to the information in our video here - our introduction to practical skills are not designed to replace accredited training needed for many practical and healthcare roles. This training includes basic life support, intermediate life support and first aid. We urge people to complete mandatory in person and accredited training before using any of the skills demonstrated in this module's practical videos.

Here, in this lecture you will be introduced to the basics of looking at someone's airway and assessing, from what you can see.

Here, we will count out a respiratory rate and explain why it is important to count for a full minute.

In this video we will show you how assessment of someone's work of breathing and their breathing pattern is carried out. This is the "look" part of the Breathing assessment.

The "listen" part of the Breathing assessment. In this video students will be introduced to the basics of assessing breathing: auscultation, respiratory rate, cough, work of breathing.

In this "Feel" part of the breathing assessment we show you where to place your hands to feel someone's chest expansion at the bases, what this means. We will also look at how to assess for tactile fremitus, or secretions within the lungs that can be felt from the outside.

Here in circulation we're going to look at finding common pulses, and the technique to do so accurately.

Across these videos students will be learning how to assess blood pressure, heart rate, palpate pulses, temperature and capillary refill.

Here we will learn how to find the brachial pulse.

Here we look at how to find the pulse located on the side of the neck.

Here we look at the pulse found behind the knee - the popliteal.

Next, let's look at the pulses found in the feet.

Now that we've found all of the pulses, what information can we gather about the quality of each pulse? What do different pulses mean in terms of their regularity, their strength?

In this video we show you how to take a blood pressure using a blood pressure cuff and sphygmanometer.

Here we show you the correct technique for completing a manual blood pressure, the equipment needed and interpretation of results.

Here, we show how to take a temperature with an ear probe.

Students will be introduced to the skills needed to assess a person's level of consciousness.

Here, in this video students will be introduced to the skills needed to assess Environment, or everything else.

In this, our last presentation of the module, we look at putting the knowledge and skills that you've developed into practice when working through six real life scenarios.