Guide – 2000-2018 First Aid

First Aid (Biennial) Badge

NOTE: If you pass the St John’s Ambulance Young Lifesaver Award Scheme, Key Stage 2 (Junior), or an equivalent, and in addition complete clauses 15-20, you can gain this Badge.

  1. Demonstrate how to assess an emergency situation and make safe for everybody before trying to help.
  2. Demonstrate how to assess a casualty, check for response, open an airway, and check for breathing and circulation, and place in the recovery position.
  3. On a manikin, demonstrate mouth-to-mouth ventilations and cardio-pulmonary resuscitation and know when to use these techniques.
  4. Demonstrate how to make an emergency phone call.
  5. Recognise the symptoms of choking and demonstrate how to treat a choking person.
  6. Recognise the problems of asthma and demonstrate how to help someone who is having an asthma attack.
  7. Demonstrate the treatment of a minor cut and a graze.
  8. Demonstrate the treatment for a casualty with severe external bleeding.
  9. Explain the importance of hygiene when dealing with blood and body fluids.
  10. Recognise and demonstrate the treatment of shock.
  11. Recognise the features of a fracture and demonstrate how to treat fractures to prevent the injury getting worse.
  12. Demonstrate how to treat burns and recognise when someone who has been burned should go to hospital.
  13. Demonstrate the treatment for someone who has been poisoned.
  14. Recognise the features of a heart attach and demonstrate how to treat a casualty who is having a heart attack.
  15. Have a brief understanding of how to treat a diabetic emergency.
  16. Have a brief understanding of epilepsy and the difference between minor and major seizures.
  17. Know how to treat a casualty having a seizure.
  18. Recognise the features of the effects of extremes of temperature and know how to treat hypothermia, heat stroke and heat exhaustion.
  19. Know how to treat insect bites and stings.
  20. Know how to treat objects in the eye and the ear.
  21. Assemble a simple first aid kit and know how to use the contents.