GWO Enhanced First Aid Refresher (EFAR)
Upgrade your existing GWO First Aid certification and help to sustain life at a remote location.
Upgrade your existing GWO First Aid certification. The GWO Enhanced First Aid Refresher (EFAR) is valid for 2 years and covers a vast array of advanced first aid and medical competencies. Within the 2 day course, delegates will learn how to safely display and administer enhanced first aid techniques in a renewables environment. If you are wanting to book this course, we require the following documentation: full medical fitness and in-date GWO Basic First Aid or EFA certificates.
Next Available Course: Available on request
Duration: 2 Days
Validation: 2 Years
Awarding Body: GWO
Price per delegate: £302 +VAT
Price per course (max 6): £1510 +VAT
Course Benefits
- Ability to safely administer immediate enhanced first aid
- Increased response times – greater responsibility to sustain life on remote and offshore workers
- Advanced airway management
- Casualty packaging
- Increased competency levels
- Legal responsibilities
- Able to treat a patient promptly
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the importance of carrying out basic and enhanced first aid in a safe manner
- Act as a leader in first aid circumstances
- Administer safe, effective and immediate lifesaving and enhanced first aid measures to save
- lives and provide assistance in remote areas using advanced emergency equipment and medical tele-consultation
- Prepare the casualty for transfer to a nominated evacuation/rescue point at the location
- Request medical/rescue assistance by providing a concise and relevant report of the casualty’s condition
- The delivery of immediate enhanced first aid to stabilise a casualty
Course Syllabus
- Advanced Airway Management
- Burns
- Casualty Packaging
- Oxygen Therapy
- Resuscitation
- Trauma
- Casualty Vital Signs
- Bleeds and Wounds
- Body Temperature Extremes
- Medical Emergencies
- Pain Management
- The Injured Casualty
- Various Practical First Aid Scenarios (Trauma)
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