American Red Cross Adult First Aid/CPR/AED (Blended learning) with Skill Boost: Life-Threatening Bleeding and Tourniquet Application
This extended session adds the American Red Cross Skill Boost for Life-Threatening Bleeding and Tourniquet Application to the complete Adult First Aid/CPR/AED course. Alongside the standard first aid, adult CPR, and AED curriculum, students get hands-on practice recognizing and controlling severe, life-threatening external bleeding with direct pressure, wound packing, and a manufactured (windlass) tourniquet -- skills drawn from the national Stop the Bleed initiative. Ideal for anyone who wants bleeding-control skills alongside their core certification: workplace responders, coaches, and anyone who carries a trauma/IFAK kit. Successful students receive a two-year Red Cross digital certificate covering both the core course and the Skill Boost.
What you'll learn
First aid basics
- Recognizing and responding to a first aid emergency
- Cuts, scrapes, burns, and bleeding control
- Sudden illness and head, neck, and back injuries
- Heat- and cold-related emergencies
Adult CPR
- Recognizing cardiac and breathing emergencies
- Adult chest compressions and rescue breaths
- Choking response for adults
AED use
- When and how to use an automated external defibrillator
- Integrating CPR and AED use with EMS response
Skill Boost: Life-threatening bleeding and tourniquet application
- Recognizing life-threatening external bleeding
- Controlling bleeding with direct pressure and wound packing
- Applying a manufactured (windlass) tourniquet correctly and documenting application time
- Hands-on practice with tourniquet and bleeding-control training supplies
Certification
- Hands-on skills practice and instructor evaluation
- Two-year American Red Cross digital certificate covering the core course and Skill Boost
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