FAQ Level 3 Award in Immediate Response Emergency Care (RQF) - IREC® Blended Part One
Course Content
- Course Introduction
- Principles of Ambulance Service First Responder Care
- Responsibilities of the First Responder
- The Importance of Being Physically and Mentally Fit to Perform the Role
- Protecting Yourself from Potentially Malicious Allegations
- Methods of Continuing Professional Development
- Asking permission and consent to help
- The Hazards that Pose a Risk to Personal Safety
- Actions to Manage Conflict
- Facts And Information About Abuse
- What causes someone to be vulnerable?
- Who might abuse or neglect
- Who Is A Vulnerable Adult?
- Abuse and its Indicators
- Duty of care
- What is Duty of Candour?
- Why is Duty of Candour Important?
- When Things Go Wrong
- Working as Part of a Team
- The purpose of the Equality Act 2010
- Types of discrimination
- Protected characteristics
- Human anatomy and physiology for immediate emergency care
- Assessment of casualties in immediate emergency care
- Complex Scene safety scenario
- Assessing a Major Incident Scene
- DRCA(c)BCDE
- Calling the Emergency Services
- What3Words - location app
- Alternative emergency phone numbers
- Introduction to Initial Patient Care
- Consent to help
- Fears of First Aid
- Waiting for the E.M.S to arrive
- Chain of Survival
- How to use face shields
- Hand Washing
- Waterless hand gels
- Medications and First Aid
- The Ten Second Triage Tool
- Using The Ten Second Triage Tool
- How are 999 Calls Handled
- Basic airway management in emergency care
- Respiration and Breathing
- Postural Drainage
- Peak Flow
- Pocket Masks
- Pocket Mask with Oxygen
- Bag Valve Mask Equipment
- Using a BVM
- Respiratory Injuries Part Three
- Respiratory Injuries Part Four
- Choking Statistics
- Choking Recognition
- Adult Choking
- Choking in children
- Infant Choking
- Trauma from Choking
- Vulnerable People and Choking
- Basic life support and external defibrillation
- Adult CPR Introduction
- RCUK & ERC Resus Guidelines
- When to call for assistance
- Three Steps to Save a Life (2025)
- Cardiac Arrest and CPR Overview
- Adult CPR
- CPR Hand Over
- Compressions Only CPR
- Mouth to Stoma Ventilations
- CPR and the female casualty
- Cardiac Arrest and Pregnancy
- Paediatric Airway
- Child CPR
- Adolescent CPR
- Infant CPR
- Infant Recovery Position
- Cardiac Arrest and the Drowned Patient
- Drowning
- SADS
- Effective CPR
- Improving compressions
- Improving breaths
- AED Introduction
- Types of AED Units
- AED Setup
- How to Use an AED
- Using an AED on an adolescent
- Child AED
- Using an AED on an infant
- Update on AED pad placement
- AED Maintenance
- AED Pads
- AED Batteries
- AED Troubleshooting
- AED Locations
- Community AED Units
- AED Post Resuscitation Procedures
- CPR Risks
- Advanced Decision and DNR CPR in Basic Life Support
- Recognition and Management of Life Extinct
- Post Resusitation Care
- Real time CPR scenario
- ROSC Care
- Paediatric Triage and Assessment
- Management of medical conditions
- Asthma
- Asthma Spacers
- When an Asthma inhaler is not available
- Accuhaler®
- Heart Attack
- Warning signs of cardiac arrest and heart attack
- Heart Attack Position
- Aspirin and the Aspod
- Stable angina
- Hypertension
- Pulse Oximetry
- Epilepsy
- Epilepsy treatment
- Meningitis
- Diabetes
- Blood Sugar Testing
- Poisons and Food Poisoning
- Near and secondary drowning
- Cold water shock
- Shock
- Distributive Shock
- Obstructive Shock
- Pneumothorax
- Types of Pneumothorax
- Tension Pneumothorax
- Intoxicated casualties
- Administration of Medications
- Support the emergency care of wounds, bleeding and burns
- The Pulse
- Capillary Refill
- The Healing Process
- Types of Bleed
- Serious Bleeding
- Ambulance Dressings
- Excessive Blood Loss
- Excessive Bleeding Control
- Blood Loss - A Practical Demonstration
- Embedded Objects
- Knife Wounds
- Trauma and Standard Dressings
- Using trauma dressings
- Amputation Treatment
- Blast Injuries
- Hemostatic Dressing or Tourniquet?
- Air Wrap Dressings
- RapidStop Tourniquet
- CAT Tourniquets
- SOFT-T tourniquet
- STAT Tourniquets
- Improvised Tourniquets
- Tourniquets and Where to Use Them
- Damage caused by tourniquets
- When Tourniquets Don't Work - Applying a Second
- Hemostatic Dressings
- What is Woundclot?
- Woundclot trauma gauze
- How Does Woundclot Work
- Woundclot and knife injuries
- Woundclot and large areas
- Packing a Wound with Celox Z Fold Hemostatic Dressing
- Celox A
- Celox Granules
- Monitoring a Patient
- Coagulopathy
- Burns and burn kits
- Treating a burn
- Management of injuries
- Prioritising first aid
- Pelvic Injuries
- Spinal Injuries
- Rapid Extrication
- SAM Pelvic Sling
- Box Splints
- Spinal Injury
- Opening the airway Jaw Thrust
- Stabilising the spine
- Spinal Recovery Position
- Introduction to Spinal Boards
- The spinal board
- Using the Spinal Board
- The Scoop Stretcher
- Using the scoop stretcher
- Cervical collars
- Vertical C-Spine Immobilisation
- Joint examination
- Adult fractures
- Types of fracture
- Horizontal Slings
- Management of trauma
- Elevated Slings
- Lower limb immobilisation
- Elevation Techniques
- Helmet Removal
- Different Types of Helmets
- The Carry Chair
- Applying Plasters
- Strains and Sprains and the RICE procedure
- Eye Injuries
- Electrical Injuries
- Foreign objects in the eye, ears or nose
- Nose bleeds
- Bites and stings
- Chest Injuries
- Foxseal chest seals
- Abdominal Injuries
- Treating Snake Bites
- Types of head injury and consciousness
- ACVPU
- Dislocated Shoulders and Joints
- Other Types of Injury
- Dental Injuries
- Trauma Scenario Examples
- Recognition and management of anaphylaxis
- What is Anaphylaxis
- Living with Anaphylaxis
- Minor allergic reactions
- Common causes of allergic reactions
- What is an Auto-Injector?
- Jext®
- EpiPen®
- Adrenaline nasal spray for anaphylaxis
- Storage and disposal
- Who prescribes auto injectors?
- Checking Auto Injector and Expiry Dates
- Signs and Symptoms of Anaphylaxis
- Basic First Aid Advice
- Schools and teachers
- Giving a second dose
- Biphasic Anaphylactic Response
- Administration of oxygen therapy
- What are Medical Gasses
- Oxygen
- When Oxygen is Used
- Contra Indications Of Oxygen
- Hazards of using oxygen
- Hypoxia
- BOC Oxygen Kit
- The BOC Cylinder
- Storage Of Oxygen
- PIN INDEX cylinder
- Oxygen Regulators
- Standard oxygen cylinder
- Transport of Cylinders
- How long does an Oxygen cylinder last?
- Oxygen and Anaphylaxis
- Demand Valves and MTV's
- Non Rebreather Mask
- Nasal Cannula
- Medical gas storage
- Mental Health
- Recognising mental ill health
- Mental Health definition and terminology
- Mental health, stereotyping, stigma and discrimination
- Who can be affected and what are the common triggers
- What is stress
- Anxiety
- Types of mental ill health
- Starting a discussion
- Supporting someone with suicidal thoughts
- What is signposting
- Self-harm and suicide risk
- Course Summary and your Practical Part
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Now, these are Celox granules. They're a hemostatic agent, but they're in granular form. Now, the advantage of the granular form is you actually pour it directly onto a wound. So the important thing to do to start with this, always wear gloves. I'm just demonstrating here, that's why I'm not wearing my gloves at the minute. Number one, you need to find out exactly where the wound is bleeding from. So you take a normal dressing, pat around the wound until you take away the blood and you can actually see where the hole is coming out. You can then pour the granules directly into that point. And the way these work is they react with the blood and then they'll form a positive, sort of like a clot effectively. So as the granules fall then they'll react. Now, this is really good for people who are on blood-thinning agents, Warfarin or something like that, or for people who don't clot very well, it's great because it will set solid and will stop a catastrophic bleed. Now the unit itself, what you got on here is the weight, this is 15 grams Celox. It's just how much is in there. Easy tear points at the top so you can just rip it off and open the pack up. On the back, you've got the instructions. So here it will tell you to open the packet, find where it's bleeding, pour the granules straight onto the wound. And the important part is you need to apply direct pressure. So you put that on, directly put your hand over the wound or put a gauze pad on to start and put direct pressure on it. And you wanna do that for three minutes. At three minutes you can take your hand away and see if it stopped the bleeding. In most cases, it would have done. If it is continuing to bleed, put your hands on for another three minutes and then that should stop all the bleeding.Now it's very important than with that in there that you then put the second dressing on the outside to hold it in place, but also take the actual wrapper here and tuck it underneath the dressing. So when the person gets to a hospital, the doctors will know exactly what's been applied. Now it's very easy to remove it for the hospitals, but from your point, once you put these in, you leave it in. Do not remove it or attempt to remove it. When you're using Celox there's no heat created so it's not uncomfortable to the person, but it will stop bleeding really, really quickly. What we're going do now is to show you Celox in action. On the top, you can open the packet up just by nicking it. If not, if you've got scissors then just simply pop the scissors on the top, cut across and you can remove the top of the packet. Open up and have a look inside, you'll see the actual granules themselves in there. They're very fine granules. There's a little bit of dust coming off and this is very safe to use, however, it will dry things up. So if you did get into your eye or into your mouth or something like this, it's not going be toxic, however, it will dry it up so you need to drink plenty of water or flush it out of your eyes. So what we are gonna do now is just show you it in action. Put some water into a glass, you might think, a serious bleed then you need a lot more than that, well no because you have dried out the wound and it has not just started bleeding again. You are not going to be looking at a high volume of liquid as you apply the granules. What we will do now is just pour the granules straight in. Once they are in we are just going to mix is around a little bit, and what that is doing is it is reacting with the Celox - the water and the Celox and straight away now is it is getting quite solidified. What we are doing is applying direct pressure to the wound for three minutes, so in this time it is reacting with the blood, and it will start to react very very quickly. So now we've got here, this is just literally after about a minute, you see straight away that was just all water in there and if turned upside-down, apart from a bit of granule coming out, there's no liquid coming out there at all. Imagine that bung is actually inside the body, so it's very quickly reacted and it's formed a very good seal. So this could be something like, maybe a chainsaw cut, someone's got a chainsaw cut to the leg and you've found the wound and see straightaway you've actually managed to put that bung in there.So what we're going then do is applying the direct pressure, we then put another dressing over the top, wrap that around applying direct pressure, tuck the actual wrapper underneath so that the doctors can see what's happened and then we can evacuate into emergency services as quickly as possible.
Using Celox Granules for Hemostasis: Step-by-Step Instructions
Overview
Celox granules serve as a haemostatic agent in granular form, facilitating rapid wound treatment.
Preparation
Prior to application, always wear gloves for safety.
Identifying the Bleeding Source
Locate the wound by gently patting around the area with a standard dressing to reveal the bleeding point.
Application Process
Utilize Celox granules by pouring them directly onto the wound, initiating clot formation upon contact with blood.
Direct Pressure Application
Apply direct pressure over the wound for three minutes to facilitate effective clotting.
Assessment and Reapplication
After three minutes, assess if bleeding has ceased. If bleeding persists, continue direct pressure for an additional three minutes.
Wound Dressing
Once bleeding is controlled, apply a secondary dressing over the wound to secure the Celox granules in place.
Documentation
Tuck the Celox packet wrapper underneath the dressing for medical reference.
Post-Application Care
Leave the Celox granules in place; do not attempt to remove them. Celox does not generate heat, making it comfortable for the patient.
Application Demonstration
Watch the Celox granules in action and learn how to apply them effectively for rapid wound sealing.
Procedure
Open the Celox packet by tearing or cutting the top. Pour the granules onto the wound and mix gently to initiate clot formation.
Cautionary Note
Celox is safe to use but may cause dryness if contact occurs with eyes or mouth. Drink plenty of water to alleviate dryness.
Example Scenario
Imagine a severe chainsaw cut; Celox granules provide quick and efficient wound sealing, allowing for prompt evacuation to emergency services.
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