Emergency First Response

The Emergency First Response course is a one-day course open to everyone interested in learning emergency care. This course is not diving related and the student does not have to be a certified diver to do the course.

Emergency First Response is an internationally recognised course with the same rating as the medic courses run by St Johns Ambulance and the Red Cross.

Course aims The Emergency First Response course teaches a simple CPR and first aid protocol, following the ILCOR 2000 (International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation) Basic Life Support Guidelines. It is a medically based assistance course enabling students to follow, at the layman's level, the same emergency procedures and priorities used by paramedics and doctors.

The course Primary Care (CPR) and Secondary Care (First Aid) skills are taught through a combination of independent study, and skill development and scenario practice sessions with a qualified Emergency First Response Instructor. The emphasis is on learning patient care skills through practice and repetition in a comfortable and low-stress environment.

Students learn the skills in the same sequence they would use in caring for a patient.

Course cost £125 Including the EFR Participant Manual and Completion Card, which is valid for 2 years.

To be certified as a PADI Rescue Diver it is necessary to have completed a sanctioned course in CPR within the past 2 years. The Emergency First Response course is highly recommended, and can be used to meet this requirement.