Instructor Preparation - Online Blended Part 1
Course Content
- Instructor preparation and update course introduction
- FAW Blended Part One Introduction and Regulations
- The Human Body
- First Aid the Initial Steps
- Asking permission and consent to help
- Calling the Emergency Services
- What3Words - location app
- Waiting for the E.M.S to arrive
- Scene Safety
- Chain of Survival
- DRcABCDE approach
- Using gloves
- How to use face shields
- Hand Washing
- Waterless hand gels
- Initial Assessment and Recovery Position
- BSi First Aid Kit
- Cardiac Arrest and Heart Conditions
- Adult CPR Introduction
- RCUK & ERC Resus Guidelines
- Heart Attack
- Heart Attack Position
- Aspirin and the Aspod
- Respiration and Breathing
- Pulse Points
- When to call for assistance
- Three Steps to Save a Life (2025)
- Adult CPR
- Effective CPR
- Improving breaths
- Compressions Only CPR
- CPR Hand Over
- Seizures and Cardiac Arrest
- Drowning
- AED Introduction
- Using an AED - brief overview and demonstration
- Choking Management
- Bleeding Control
- Catastrophic Bleeding
- Why is this Training Now Required?
- Prioritising first aid
- Bleeding assessment
- Blood Loss - A Practical Demonstration
- Hemostatic Dressing or Tourniquet?
- Tourniquets and Where to Use Them
- Types of Tourniquets
- Improvised Tourniquets
- When Tourniquets Don't Work - Applying a Second
- Hemostatic Dressings
- Packing a Wound with Celox Z Fold Hemostatic Dressing
- The Woundclot range
- How Does Woundclot Work
- Woundclot features
- Woundclot and direct pressure
- Packing a wound with Woundclot
- Woundclot and knife injuries
- Woundclot and large areas
- Shock and Spinal Injury
- Injuries
- Secondary Care Introduction
- Injury Assessment
- Strains and Sprains and the RICE procedure
- Adult fractures
- Splints
- Dislocated Shoulders and Joints
- Types of head injury and consciousness
- Eye Injuries
- Foreign object in the eye
- Burns and burn kits
- Treating a burn
- Blister Care
- Electrical Injuries
- Abdominal Injuries
- Chest Injuries
- Heat emergencies
- Cold emergencies
- Dental Injuries
- Bites and stings
- Treating Snake Bites
- Splinters
- Illness
- Introduction to Paediatric and Adult First Aid
- Paediatric CPR and Choking
- Specific Paediatric Conditions
- How to use an AED
- Extra Subjects to allow you to teach specialist courses
- Teaching Equipment
- Summary
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The muscular system consists of three main types of muscle tissue. We have smooth tissue, we have cardio tissue, often known as the myocardium, and we have skeletal tissue. So, the smooth tissue, it's throughout the body, we find in the digestive system, reproductive system, circulatory system, and the urinary system. It's all over the body. We don't have control and they're involuntary control over them. We will cover that later. The next kind of muscle we move on to is cardiac muscle. It's only found in the heart and it's controlled by sinoatrial node and set heart rhythm is generally about 72 beats per minute, so this is at rest in a normal healthy person. Normal heart rhythm like that is called autorhythmicity. That's quite a complicated word that you might not have heard before, but the function of cardiac muscle is to pump blood O2 around the body.The third muscle we're going to look at is skeletal muscle. Skeletal muscle works by attaching a muscle to a joint via a tendon. Now, this is controlled by the somatic nervous system so it's considered as voluntary. The skeletal muscle system will provide us with locomotion and other body movements. For example, the maintenance of posture. As I'm stood here, my skeletal muscles are working on and off to keep me standing upright but I'm not thinking about that particularly at the moment. So, it also has some jobs with storing and transporting of substance within the body such as glycogen. The skeletal muscle also generates warmth. Muscles, in general, have four properties. The first one being elasticity in the sense that they can get shorter and longer. They have contractility, and they also have electrical excitability, and they also have extensibility.
Overview of the Muscular System
This guide explores the three main types of muscle tissue in the human body, their functions, and properties.
Smooth Muscle Tissue
Location: Found in the digestive, reproductive, circulatory, and urinary systems.
Function: Operates involuntarily, controlling various internal processes.
Cardiac Muscle Tissue
Location: Exclusive to the heart.
Function: Regulated by the sinoatrial node to maintain a heart rhythm, typically around 72 beats per minute in a resting, healthy person.
Characteristic: Exhibits autorhythmicity, a specific heart contraction pattern.
Skeletal Muscle Tissue
Function: Facilitates movement by attaching muscles to joints via tendons, controlled voluntarily by the somatic nervous system.
Roles: Includes locomotion, posture maintenance, and internal substance transportation like glycogen.
Properties of Muscles
Muscles generally possess four key properties:
- Elasticity - ability to stretch and return to original length
- Contractility - capability to shorten and generate force
- Electrical Excitability - responsiveness to stimulation
- Extensibility - capacity to be extended without damage