First Response Emergency Care (FREC3) Course in Exeter, Devon & South West

This qualification is for people who are required to hold a regulated and nationally recognised Level 3 prehospital care qualification and for those who intend (or have a specific responsibility at work, or in voluntary and community activities) to provide prehospital emergency care as a Level 3 First Response Emergency Care (FREC®3) provider.

It is ideal for those looking to equip themselves with lifesaving skills to prepare them to be amongst
the first to arrive at a scene of an emergency, including first responders such as police officers, firefighters, emergency medical services and search and rescue personnel.

It is also ideal for those providing event medical cover or roles such as First Responders, Door Supervisors, Close Protection Operatives and Security Guards, as well as those working in high-risk
environments including the military, power stations, offshore renewable energy, agriculture and manufacturing settings. FREC®3 providers work in a wide range of workplaces and environments providing prehospital emergency care, having direct contact with service users or others and providing high quality and compassionate care.

Entry Requirements

Learners must be at least 17 years old on the first day of the training.

There are no other formal entry requirements but to benefit from the learning we advise that
Learners have a minimum of Level 2 in literacy or equivalent and a basic understanding of first aid.

Only Learners who have clinical direction and operate within a governance framework are able to
be taught and assessed using the FREC®3 Optional practical assessment (Extended skills). Learners
must submit a completed FREC3 Optional Practical Assessments (Extended Skills) authorisation form
to the approved Centre who they are registered with prior to being taught extended skills.

3 Day Level 3 Award in First Response Emergency Care (FREC3) Requal (RQF) – Course Content:

Day 1

• Introduction
• What is a Frec3 Provider
• Operational Performance & Human Factors
• Emergency Services/Medical Emergency Response
• Scene assessment and safe approach
• Referral pathways
• Establishing mechanism of Incident. 
• Principles of patient Assessment
• Identifying presenting complaint and establishing severity
• Airway anatomy
• Causes of unconsciousness
• Assessing a patients airway
• Managing and maintaining a patients airway.
• Recognising the need for clinical support.
• Safety consideration when storing and using medical gases
• Safe administration of medical gases
• Monitoring the effects of medical gases
• Need to alert a clinician to adverse reactions
• Recording the administration of medical gases
• Respiratory system
• Assessment and management of chest injuries.
• Assessment and management of respiratory distress.
• Circulatory system
• Clinical features of medical emergencies.
• Prehospital emergency medical care.
• Administration of medication for medical emergencies.
• Feedback, Homework, Next Session.

Day 2

• Potential causes of cardiac arrest and the chain of survival.
• Adult, Child and infant basic life support and safe use of AED
• When resuscitation should not be attempted or ceased
• Traumatic cardiac arrest within scope of practice.
• Basic maintenance procedures and addressing common functionality faults for AED
• Practical Assessments Adult, Child and infant BLS
• Mechanism of injury
• Trauma patient assessment
• Shock
• Life threatening bleeding control
• Assessment and referral of wound infections
• Assessment and management of wounds and bleeding
• Severity and classication of burns and scalds
• Management and treatment of burns and scalds.
• Spinal Immobilisation and helmet removal.
• Assessment and management of head injuries.
• Assessment and management of spinal injuries.
• Assessment and management of musculoskeletal injuries.
• Dynamic moving and handling risk asssessment.
• Safe use of prehospital care moving and handling equipment.
• Assisting a clinician moving and handling patients.
• Feedback, Homework, Next Session.

Day 3

• TST and prehospital care interventions exercise.
• Alerting others and calling for help.
• Primary triage using TST.
• Prehospital care interventions.
• Moving and handling injured patients.
• Invigilated Exam – Anatomy and physiology.
• Sudden poisoning – Routes of entry.
• Effect of poisons.
• Assessment and management of sudden poisoning.
• Convulsions – Causes of seizures and seizure like episodes.
• Assessment and management of seizures.
• Drowning – Characteristics and clinical features of drowning.
• Prehospital emergency care at immersion and submersion incidents.
• Including safe approach and extrication.
• Multiple choice Question Paper.
• Knowledge Gap exercise.
• Consolidation and practical assessments (4 x 30 minute sessions)
• Feedback

How Long?

3 Day – 9.00- 5.00 – 8Hours

Qualification:

On completion of a written & practical assessments you will receive
QA Level 3 Award in First Response Emergency Care (FREC3) – 

Certificate valid for 3 years

Cost