Diversify Your Business

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Emergency First Response Training Services
provided by Robert W. Murphy, EFR Instructor
Master Scuba Diver Trainer, Aqua Clara Dive
Schools of Florida, Inc.
Innovative CPR, AED and First Aid Training
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Overview

• The Importance of Training
• Emergency First Response
• What Features DifferentiateEmergency First
  Response
• Instructor Training

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The Importance of Training

• Sobering statistics
• More than 2,400,000 die each year from
  Cardiovascular Disease
• For every minute aperson is in cardiacarrest,
  survivabilitydecreases by 10

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The Importance of Training

• Benefits of Training
• Creates a safer workenvironment reduces
  liability
• Excellent employeebenefit
• Protect your 1 asset- your employees

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The Importance of Training

• Growing Importance of Automated External
  Defibrillator (AED ) Training
• New laws mandating AEDs and staff trained to use
  them
• Many insurers now
  require AED
• Prepare forforeseeable risk
• Reduce liability exposure

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The Importance of Training

• Regulatory Environment
• Depending on the level and type of risk,
  specialized training may be required
• EFR coursesprovide a complete
  solution to meeting
  international standard
  variations

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Emergency First Response

• Emergency First Response (EFR)
• Emergency First Response is thefastest-growing
  international CPR,AED and first aid training
  organization
• More than 45,000 Instructors
  worldwide
• Global office support, including US, Canada,
  Europe Australia and Japan

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What Standards Do EmergencyFirst Response
Courses Follow?

• Based on internationally recognized medical
  guidelines for emergency care
• ECC Guidelines 2010
• Basic Life Support (BLS) group of the
  International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation
  (ILCOR)
• Can be adapted tomeet local patientcare
  protocols

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What Features Differentiate Emergency First
Response?

• Flexible instructional approachand options
• Independent study
• Video guided
• Instructor led
• Independent study option
• Shorter class timeno lecture
• More skill practice time
• Better skill retention
• Reduces time away from job

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What Features Differentiate Emergency First
Response?

• Simplified Approach to Learning
• Distinguishes life threatening from nonlife
  threatening situations
• Helps Emergency Responders properly sequence
  patient care
• Keeps information and skill introduction
  manageable
• Results in better retentionand confidence to act!

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What Features Differentiate Emergency First
Response?

• Creating Confidence to Care SM
• Learning takes place in a non-stressful
  environment
• Program emphasizes encouragement and positive
  reinforcement
• Eliminates the fearof doing somethingwrong

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What Features Differentiate Emergency First
Response?

• Creating Confidence to Care SM
• Tackles emotional aspects of offering emergency
  care
• Encourages action
• Philosophy Adequate aidprovided is
  betterthan perfect aid withheld

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What Features Differentiate Emergency First
Response?

• Course Options
• Optional emergencyoxygen use modules
• Course flexibility
• CPR, AED and first aid courses separately or
  together
• Care for Children course

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What Features Differentiate Emergency First
Response?

• Outstanding Products
• Expertly-designed course materials
• Available in 18 different languages
• Feature realistic scenarios
• Continuous qualitymanagement

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What Features Differentiate Emergency First
Response?

• Meet Regulatory Requirements
• Convenient, complete solution to meeting
  workplace compliance standards in CPR, AED
  andfirst aid training
• OSHA and COSH compliantcourses customized to
  meetlocal and regional standards
• Widespread internationalacceptance

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What Features Differentiate Emergency First
Response?

• Ongoing Solution
• Training valid for 2 years
• CPR
• AED
• First Aid
• Refresher course providesan ongoing solution to
  compliance needs
• 2.5 hours - 3.5 hours to complete

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We Do Both Employer On-site and Off-site
Training, Non-employer Group Training, and
Individual Training Whichever Best Suits Your
Needs

• Have a specific requirement for training?
• OSHA
• Liability insurance carrier
• Captains license
• Marine or air charters
• Teacher/school/fraternal organization
• Rescue Diver (individual and public sector) and
  other scuba certifications
• 24 Month required refresher
• Pool, recreation and water oriented hospitality
  businesses

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Lets Talk About O2 Training

• Your Course Options
• Standard EFR courses have emergency oxygen use
  modules which can be taught as an option
• Minimal training on most simple emergency uses of
  O2
• Aqua Clara Dive Schools of Florida, Inc. also
  provides a separate PADI based O2 specialty
  course which provides significantly more breadth
  and depth in this subject area (e.g., physiology,
  equipment alternatives, administration, etc.)
• We encourage those persons who might need to be
  O2 providers at some time in the future to take
  the full O2 course with us

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We Also Coordinate TrainingforEmergency First
Response Instructors

• Prerequisites
• 18 years old
• Current adultCPR first aidtraining (prior 24
  months)
• Child and infant CPR pre-training encouraged but
  not required as EFR Instructor prerequisite

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Becoming AnEmergency First Response
InstructorWith No Previous CPR/First Aid Training

• No previous CPR or first aid training or expired
  credentials?
• No problem, trainingcan be providedas part of
  the EFRInstructor course

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Some Past CPR and/or First Aid Training With
Another Agency?

• Instructor Reciprocity
• Instructor crossover courses available
• Contact us at efr_at_aquaclaradive.com for more
  information on crossovers

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Have Questions?
Please contact us by phone at 727-510-7138 or emai
l us at efr_at_aquaclaradive.com