Cardiac First Response – Naloxone

Cardiac First Response – Naloxone

The Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council (PHECC) has designed the Cardiac First Response (CFR) and Naloxone standard to offer appropriate training to individuals and groups who wish to avail of certified training in basic life support and the administration of Naloxone (IM and IN) for the emergency treatment of adults with respiratory depression secondary to known or suspected narcotic overdose.

This course’s duration is approximately one day for NEw CFR Responders.  For those already holding a valid CFR community Certificate the medications management and administration add on shall take approx 3 hours

Award of joint PHECC/RECFIRSTAID Ltd CFR cards/certificates to successful course participants by the recognised institution is mandatory. Certification lapses after two years.

Learners will be continually assessed throughout the course on the practical skills acquired on the course.

There is a practical skills formative assessment as per PHECC assessment sheets on this course which includes:

1. Skills assessment using PHECC’s CFR Community assessment sheet
2. Scenario based skills assessment – for the named medicinal product