Sports Injury Management

This course is aimed at coaches and volunteers working in sport clubs. On completion of training, successful candidates should be able to:

• administer first aid to a casualty who is unconscious (including seizure);
• administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation;
• administer first aid to a casualty with a major bleed;
• recognise the presence of major illness and provide appropriate first aid (including heart attack, stroke, epilepsy, asthma, diabetes);
• understand the anatomy and physiology of a sports injury;
• management of a fracture or dislocation;
• management of a soft tissue injury;
• management of a head injury;
• provide appropriate first aid for minor injuries (including small cuts, grazes and  bruises, small splinters)