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Basic Life Support Training for Police

The National Police Training Program includes a 24-week curricular unit on Basic Life Support in Police Operations, aimed at equipping police officers with essential skills to provide immediate care to sick or injured individuals. The program covers various topics such as patient assessment, CPR, trauma management, and tactical first aid, emphasizing the importance of preparedness in emergency situations. The training is crucial due to the high-risk nature of police work, which often involves responding to life-threatening incidents.

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Basic Life Support Training for Police

The National Police Training Program includes a 24-week curricular unit on Basic Life Support in Police Operations, aimed at equipping police officers with essential skills to provide immediate care to sick or injured individuals. The program covers various topics such as patient assessment, CPR, trauma management, and tactical first aid, emphasizing the importance of preparedness in emergency situations. The training is crucial due to the high-risk nature of police work, which often involves responding to life-threatening incidents.

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National Police Training Program

Curricular Unit: Basic Life Support in Police Operations Duration: 24 weeks

HTA: 74 HTI: 34 HTE: 108 Credit Units: 4 Code: SBVI14 Route: I


Justificación: La unidad curricular Soporte de Vida tiene como propósito que las y los estudiantes adquieran los
theoretical and practical knowledge necessary to act in the presence of sick or injured people, at the scene of the
event, through basic life support techniques and procedures, that allow for the stabilization of their
vital functions, while emergency response agencies arrive or is attended to in a center
assistance. The police is generally the first response to any emergency and in some cases, the
unique. For this reason, it is necessary that the police officials are prepared for basic care.
of the most common emergencies that may arise in your work environment. On the other hand, the function
policing is highly risky, resulting in hundreds of deaths in the line of duty each year, of the
A high percentage is caused by gunshot wounds and a smaller percentage by other types of injuries.
workplace accidents. Many of these deaths could have been avoided if their colleague or even themselves
Injured employee, would have had the necessary knowledge in first aid application.
Knowledge, skills, abilities, and/or attitudes:
Understand the principles that govern Basic Life Support, to ensure survival of the
sick and/or injured patient.
Recognize the signs and symptoms of the various types of trauma and the most common diseases that
they compromise the life of the individual through primary and secondary assessment.
Apply basic prehospital care protocols to sick and/or injured patients.
Apply patient mobilization and proper transfer techniques.
Learn the fundamental aspects of Basic Life Support tactical prehospital care.
Contents:
Topic 1: Patient Assessment and Multiple Victim Assessment (START Triage Method).
Theme 2: Basic Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (C.P.R).
Theme 3: Comprehensive Trauma Management.
Topic 4: Basic life support in the most common medical emergencies.
Theme 5: Environmental emergencies.
Topic 6: Basic care for prehospital delivery.
Theme 7: Tactical First Aid.
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