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Courses
This website has been mainly designed to cover the UK Life Supports 1 & 3 courses (Life Support 2 was abolished in 2006), run by the Royal Life Saving Society. However, it is suitable to learn the majority of the St. John's Ambulance course and Red Cross.
If you are choosing a course to follow, our advice is to look at the course from a body which you may wish to become a member of. For example, if there was a possibility you may decide to become a Pool Lifeguard, this examination is regulated by the Royal Life Saving Society. Part of the Pool Lifeguard exam is to take Life Support 3, thus it might be more profitable for you to choose the Life Support course. If you were interested in helping out as part of the St. John's Ambulance, take their course, and so on.
Disclaimer: Courses change frequently and it is difficult for teachers and even students to keep up to date with the changes. Whilst we have made every effort to make this page as accurate as possible, we can't guarantee that changes haven't been made since publishing.
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Bonus! How did the changes in late 2006 affect those holding Life Support qualifications? Check out our Interviews page to see how each of the people we interviewed were affected and how they kept up to date with the syllabus changes! |
Life Support 1
“To gain this award candidates must be able to perform effective CPR on a manikin, turn a live casualty, show action for vomiting and the recovery position and be able to treat bleeding, choking and shock.”
Validity: 24 months
Prerequisites: None
Skills:
- Awareness of own safety
- Checking responsiveness
- Sequence of Life Support
- Combining Chest Compressions with rescue breathing (CPR)
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Bleeding, Choking and Shock
- Action for Vomiting
- Recovery Position
- Differences in Life Support for Adults, Children and Infants
- Test 1: Demonstrate the assessment and treatment of a simulated unconcious casualty
- Test 2: Demonstrate the assessment and treatment of an unconscious non-breathing adult casualty
- Test 3: Demonstrate Knowledge and Understanding of Life Support
Life Support 3
“To gain this award candidates must be able to perform excellent CPR on an adult, child and infant manikin, turn a live casualty, show action for vomiting and the recovery position. Candidates should demonstrate an excellent level of knowledge of diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrest, bleeding, choking, shock, hypothermia and drowning.”
Validity: 24 months
Prerequisites: None
Skills:
- Awareness of own safety
- Checking responsiveness
- Sequence of Life Support
- Combining Chest Compressions with Rescue Breathing (CPR)
- CPR on adults, children and infants
- Management of hypothermia and drowning
- Diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrest, bleeding, choking and shock
- Action for vomiting
- Recovery Position
- Pocket Masks
- Life Support
- Differences in Life Support for Adults, Children and Infants
- Choking
- Bleeding
- Shock
- Hypothermia
- Drowning
- Test 1: Demonstrate the assessment and treatment of a simulated unconscious casualty
- Test 2: Demonstrate the assessment and treatment of an unconscious and non-breathing adult casualty
- Test 3: Demonstrate CPR on an adult manikin with more than 1 rescuer
- Test 4: Demonstrate the assessment and treatment of an unconscious non-breathing child casualty
- Test 5: Demonstrate the assessment and treatment of an unconscious non-breathing infant casualty
- Test 6: Demonstration of Life Support skills (Incident)
- Test 7: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of Life Support
St. John's Ambulance Stage 1
Skills:
- AMEGA
- Approach
- Make Safe
- Emergency Aid
- DR. AB
- Danger
- Response
- Airway
- Breathing
- DR. AB
- Get Help
- Aftermath
- Asthma
- Adult & Child Choking
- Recovery Position
- Making an Emergency Phone Call
St. John's Ambulance Stage 2
Skills:
- Treatment of Bleeding (Major and Minor)
- Treating Shock
- Treating Fractures
- Treating Burns and Scalds
- Treating Poisoning
St. John's Ambulance Stage 3
Skills:
- Recognise and treat a heart attack
- Carry out Mouth-to-Mouth breathing
- Carry out Chest Compressions
- Combine to carry out Cardio-Pulmanory Resuscitation (CPR)
Red Cross - Administer First Aid
Certificates:
- Standard First Aid - Elements 1, 2, 3 & 4
- Practical First Aid - Elements 2, 3 & 4
- Basic First Aid - Elements 2 (part 1), 3 & 4 (part 1)
- Basic Life Support + AED - Elements 3, 4 (part 1) & 5
- Emergency Life Support - Elements 3 & 4 (and a knowledge of Element 2)
- Save a Life - Elements 3 & 4
This Element is out of the scope of this site
Element Two: “Respond to the needs of casualties with major injuries and medical conditions”
Parts of this Element are outside the scope of this site
- 2.1 Major Injuries
- 2.2 Medical Conditions
Element Four: “Perform cardio-pulmanory resuscitation (CPR)”
- 4.1 Adult
- 4.2 Child
- 4.3 Infant (Baby)
This qualifies as Advanced Life Support and thus is out of the scope of this site.
- Use of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
- Basic understanding of Ventricular Fibriliation and Defibrillation
- Chain of Survival
- Importance of Defibrillation early
- Defibrillation Hazards
- Aftercare
- Maintaining an AED
- Record Keeping
- Audit Trail