Immediate Emergency Care (IEC)

The aim of this course is to give IEC providers the necessary skills and knowledge to effectively deliver their own provider courses and ongoing maintenance of skills training.

This instructor course is delivered as a 2 day initial instructor programme for students who already have an IEC provider qualification. Typically these 2 days directly follow their 3 day initial provider course.

Upon completion of the course, students are awarded an IEC Instructor certificate (valid for one year).

The IEC instructor course comprises of the following key elements :-

• Principles of adult education
• Basic instructional techniques
  • Power point presentations
  • Skill stations
  • Scenarios
  • Learning conversations / feedback
• Training equipment
• Assessment principles and process
• Course mechanics – how to deliver the IEC course
• Learning management system
• Course paperwork
• Consolidation of knowledge and understanding

The aim of the course is to reduce preventable pre-hospital deaths by training candidates to identify and treat life-threatening emergencies and prepare casualties for rapid evacuation to hospital.

Originally tailored for Fire & Rescue Services, where it has been widely adopted, it is ideal for any emergency services, law enforcement or security personnel and all those working in remote areas. With specific modules for burns, suspension trauma and crush injuries, further modules can be tailored to suit your specific organisational risks.

The IEC Intermediate Practitioner course is delivered as an intensive three-day advanced first aid and trauma course.

Upon completion of the course, students are awarded an IEC Intermediate Practitioner certificate. These certificates are valid for three years.

The course syllabus includes the following :-

• Kinematics – How to perform a ‘SCENE’ approach and predict injuries based on the forces and motion involved.
• Catastrophic bleeding control – Learn to manage catastrophic external bleeding with the use of advanced pressure dressings and tourniquets
• Airway management – Develop skills in identifying and managing airway obstructions, including the use of suction devices and adjuncts such as oral, nasal airways
• Breathing – Study serious chest injuries and their management, including Oxygen therapy.
• Circulation – Examine how the circulatory system works and how to identify and treat shock
• Disability – Identify and treat head injuries and learn how to prevent secondary brain injuries
• Extremity Trauma – Identify and treat fractures and soft tissue injury using a wide range of splints and slings
• Burns – Understand the different types, severity, and treatment of burns
• Packaging and evacuation – Learn the different ways of packaging casualties for rapid evacuation and choose appropriate extrication and transport equipment for time-critical patients
• Special Circumstances – Discuss adaptations for treatment for victims of drowning, crush injury and suspension trauma
• Paediatrics – Understand the differences between adults and children and adaptations required when assessing and treating the ill or injured child.
• CPR and AEDs – Learn the Resuscitation Council 2015 guidelines and the safest and most effective way to use AEDs