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Adult First Aid, CPR & AED

Learn to recognize and respond to cardiac, breathing and first aid emergencies in adults. Covers the emergency action steps, high-quality CPR, AED use, choking, heart attack, stroke, severe bleeding, burns, sudden illness and environmental emergencies — with videos, animations, an interactive CPR rhythm trainer and knowledge checks throughout.

3 h 5 min 6 modules · 24 lessons 15 videos · 13 animations Beginner

What you'll be able to do

  • Assess an emergency safely using Check, Call, Care, including consent and personal protection.
  • Recognize cardiac arrest and perform high-quality adult CPR.
  • Use an AED safely and effectively, including special situations.
  • Give first aid for choking, asthma attacks and anaphylaxis.
  • Recognize and respond to heart attack, stroke, seizures, diabetic emergencies and poisoning.
  • Control life-threatening bleeding and care for shock, burns, head, spine and bone injuries.
  • Respond to heat, cold, bite and sting emergencies.

Curriculum

1

Foundations of first aid

4 lessons · 27 min

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Your role, the law, and a routine you can use in any emergency.

  • Welcome: your role as a first aider6 min
  • The emergency action steps: Check, Call, Care9 min
  • Unresponsive but breathing: the recovery position7 min
  • Protecting yourself: gloves, barriers and hygiene5 min
2

Cardiac arrest, CPR & AED

5 lessons · 42 min

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The skills that restart a life: recognize arrest, compress, defibrillate.

  • Recognizing cardiac arrest & the chain of survival8 min
  • High-quality adult CPR12 min
  • Practice lab: find the rhythm6 min
  • Using an AED (defibrillator)10 min
  • CPR in special situations6 min
3

Breathing emergencies

3 lessons · 24 min

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Choking, asthma and life-threatening allergic reactions.

  • Choking in adults and children9 min
  • Asthma attacks6 min
  • Severe allergic reactions (anaphylaxis)9 min
4

Sudden illness

5 lessons · 34 min

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Heart attack, stroke, seizures, diabetic emergencies and poisoning.

  • Heart attack7 min
  • Stroke: think BE FAST7 min
  • Seizures7 min
  • Diabetic emergencies and fainting7 min
  • Poisoning and overdose6 min
5

Injuries

5 lessons · 36 min

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Bleeding, shock, burns, head and spinal injuries, and broken bones.

  • Life-threatening bleeding11 min
  • Shock5 min
  • Burns and scalds8 min
  • Head, neck and spinal injuries6 min
  • Bone, joint and muscle injuries6 min
6

Environmental emergencies

2 lessons · 13 min

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Heat, cold, bites and stings.

  • Heat and cold emergencies8 min
  • Bites and stings5 min

Final assessment & certificate

20 questions drawn from a bank of 34 · 80% to pass