PHECC FAR study guide

The First Aid Response (FAR) is a responder-level course and award in the Irish pre-hospital emergency care system, overseen by the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council (PHECC). PHECC describes itself as independently co-ordinating, developing, reviewing, regulating and governing standards of excellence for the safe provision of quality pre-hospital emergency care in Ireland, and it maintains a statutory register of practitioners who meet its standards. FAR is aimed at people who may be first on scene in workplaces, communities and public settings and who need a regulated, nationally recognised first aid qualification rather than a practitioner licence. Because the course sits on the PHECC responder ladder, the assessment you face is set against PHECC education and training standards and the responder edition of the clinical practice guidelines, not against a generic first aid syllabus. You should expect to be examined on patient assessment, scene safety, cardiac arrest and CPR with an AED, airway and breathing emergencies, bleeding and shock, medical and trauma emergencies, and the safe handover of a patient to emergency services. Preparation means studying the current PHECC responder clinical practice guidelines and patient safety notices alongside a course run by a PHECC-approved training institution, then practising practical skills such as CPR, AED use and patient handling until they are automatic. Topics on this exam: First Aid Response. The PHECC FAR study guide has 1 section and about 509 words.