To give the participants basic knowledge and skills qualifying them for:

• Lifesaving first aid
• Ordinary first aid in emergency situations
• Evacuation situations onboard ships

Upon completion of the course, participants will have obtained basic knowledge plus skills on:

• The four main points of first aid onboard a ship
• The human needs for oxygen
• A-B-C principles
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation and practice exercise
• Drowning
• Recovery position
• Hypothermia and treatment
• Bleeding and shock
• Burns and electric burns
• Fractures of bones
• Head and spine injuries
• Stretchers, transport and evacuations

• To use the four main points of first aid onboard a ship
• Understand the theory about lifesaving first aid
• In practices give cardiopulmonary resuscitation and use recovery position
• Understand the symptoms of bleeding and shock
• Use of different dressing and bandage
• Understand the theory about hypothermia and demonstrates the treatment
• Understand the theory about burns, fractures, head and spine injuries and demonstrate the treatment in practice
• Recognize the hazard of transporting a patient with injury of pelvis or spine as well as demonstrate the correct procedures for evacuating of such casualties