First Aid and CPR are good skills for everyone involved in adventure sports. You need these skills for the PADI Rescue Diver course. The Emergency First Response (EFR) course teaches you medical emergency response skills and gives you confidence so you are prepared to help in an emergency.
What you learn in the EFR course
- BLS (Basic Life Support) CPR and rescue breathing at the layperson level
- Preventing and caring for shock
- Spinal injury management
- Use of barrierers to reduce desease transmission risk
- Basic first aid and first aid kit considerations