A picture of a woman lying on the floor with a person off screen performing CPR. The x3si logo is overlayed and with the text: Community First Responder, learn how to save a life underneath
The community first responder program aims to empower communities to help themselves in the face of a medical emergency within the community. The program creates a group of certified responders who can provide emergency care whilst waiting for an ambulance to arrive.
 
The program requires participants to undergo one full day of initial training, participate in one emergency simulation per year and take a refresher course once every other year.
 
The initial training teaches responders:
 
  • Safe approach to an emergency scene
  • Patient assessment
  • The spine injured patient
  • Lifting, moving and extrication
  • Life-threatening bleeding
  • The patient who isn’t breathing
  • CPR & AED
  • Respiratory Emergencies (inc Asthma, Drowning)
  • Allergy & Anaphylaxis
  • Heart Attack
  • Non-traumatic Brain Injury (inc Stroke)
  • The unresponsive patient
  • Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Problems with Sugar (inc Diabetes)
Participants will receive Community First Responder Level 1 certification from Austere & Emergency Medicine International, valid for two years. This year, we hope to end up with 16-24 community responders. In the future there may also be opportunities or participants to upgrade to higher levels of certification.
 
The training program alone is usually valued at USD $70 per head. The responders, in return for the free training, will be put into a whatsapp group, accessible to the guardhouse, management office and committee members, so that in the case of an emergency, they can be called upon to help.
 
Course Details
 
Date: Saturday May 28
Start: 0830
End: 1700
Location: The Clubhouse
 
Coffee, tea, snacks and a light lunch for participants will be provided by LERA.
 
This course is only open to residents of Lake Edge. Spaces are limited. To express your interest in joining this program, please fill in the following form:

Meet the Instructor

Damien Santer (DParamedSci)

Damien Santer is an ALS certified paramedical practitioner and educator.

Having spent the better part of twenty years in the boardroom running technology and management consulting firms, Damien went back to school to achieve his Diploma in Paramedical Science with the mission of driving awareness of the importance of high quality first aid and pre-hospital emergency medicine in the developing world.

In the early 2000’s, Damien was a member and trainer of a multidisciplinary rescue unit in regional NSW, providing vertical, road crash and flood rescue, storm damage support, first aid, general rescue and search and rescue. He was also a NSW State Rescue Board Accredited Operator.

Damien is the Director of the Medical Relief arm of 4×4 Relief Malaysia, and a Training Advisor to The Scout Association, heading the first aid training team for 28 countries spanning Europe, Africa and Asia. He has qualifications in both technical rope rescue and white-water rescue.

Damien teaches First Aid, Wilderness, Austere and Emergency Medicine for AEMED International, as well as chairing the AEMED Curriculum Advisory Committee.

CFR – Puchong

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