Course: Choking First Aid Training for Adults and Infants

This Choking First Aid Training for Adults and Infants course provides essential knowledge for recognising and responding to mild and severe choking emergencies. Learners will understand how to assess a casualty and safely deliver back blows, abdominal thrusts for adults and chest thrusts for infants. This course is suitable for healthcare workers, carers, childcare professionals and anyone seeking choking first aid training, this course builds confidence to respond quickly, follow correct emergency procedures and provide support until professional help arrives.

This course covers:

• Understanding choking and common causes

• Recognising the signs of mild and severe choking

• First response to choking

• Responding to adult choking: back blows and abdominal thrusts

• If adult choking continues, and what to do if the casualty becomes unresponsive

• Responding to infant choking: back blows and chest thrusts

• If infant choking continues

• Adult and infant choking: key differences

• Actions to avoid during a choking emergency

• After the object is removed

• Recording and reporting a choking incident

• Choking prevention and workplace choking prevention

• Adult and infant choking scenarios, knowledge check and reflective activity