Learn How to Help

Emergency First Response Course.

Learn How to Help

Learn how to provide emergency care for most life-threatening situations and how to help by giving proper first aid. These skills will enable you to save lives and avoid serious injuries.

Emergency First Response (EFR) Course

Learn how to help others in the emergency

Emergency First Response Primary Care (CPR) and Secondary Care (First Aid) courses follow the emergency considerations and protocols as developed by the members of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR). Mastering emergency exercises and scenarios will enable you to provide sufficient care before EMS (Emergency Medical Services) arrive, maximising the chances of victims survival and avoiding serious injuries.

Completing EFR Course is a prerequisite for the PADI Rescue Diver Course, as you must master the principals of helping others before applying it to diving situations.

Essential Information About the Emergency First Response Course

  • Duration of the course: 1 day

  • Price of the course: 6 500 PHP

    The price includes:
    – Emergency First Response eLearning
    – Classroom practice session
    – Free coffee, tea and water on the boat and in the dive shop
    – Free WIFI
    – Certification fee

  • Prerequisites before starting the course:

    – No minimum age

  • Course modules

    – Classroom session – exercises
    – Classroom session – scenarios

Benefits of Taking the Emergency First Rescue (EFR) Course With Dive Pro Career.

Private Instructor

Whenever you are alone or with a group of friends – you'll get your private instructor. No groups!

Easy eLearning

Master dive theory at your own pace and in comfortable environment. PADI eLearning platform lets you study from any place in the world.

Best Diving Facilities

Our 5 Star PADI Dive shop is equipped with one of the best facilities to make your training as easy as possible.

What Will You Learn During the Emergency First Rescue (EFR) Course?

The EFR Course consists of two parts: Emergency First Response Primary Care (CPR) and Secondary Care (First Aid). Both courses are divided into three parts: Knowledge Development, Skill Development and Scenario Practice.

Knowledge Development

This segment is covered by eLearning and requires individual study. Integrated videos make it easy to see how knowledge can be applied in practice. Completing eLearning is necessary before staring classroom sessions.

Skills Development

Skills Development is all about practicing and understanding how to behave in certain emergency situations. Participants are divided into groups, and roles are assigned: rescuer, victim, observer. Emergency scenes can be intimidating. Even those with professional level CPR and first aid training can feel helpless, shocked or overwhelmed by what they witness – therefore skills are practiced until every participant achieves a comfortable level in performing the proper cycle of care.

Following skills are practiced during Emergency First Response Primary Care (CPR):

  • Scene Assessment
    Assessing an emergency scene for safety.

  • Barrier Use
    Procedures for donning, removing and disposing of gloves. This includes removing gloves without snapping or tearing them. Also, properly position a ventilation barrier on a mannequin.

  • Primary Assessment – Airway Open? Breathing Normally?
    Performing responsiveness check by giving a responder statement, checking airway using two methods, checking for normal breathing. Primary assessment is performed on both conscious and simulated unconscious patient. Putting unresponsive breathing patients in the recovery position is also practiced.

  • CPR – Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation – Chest Compressions
    Performing CPR on an adult patient following a rate of 100 to 120 compressions per minute.

  • CPR – Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation with Rescue Breathing
    Perform adult complete CPR – chest compressions and rescue breathing – at a ratio of 30 chest compressions to 2 rescue breaths.

  • Automated External Defibrillator Use (optional)
    Use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) on a mannequin according to the device manual.

  • Serious Bleeding Management
    Using direct pressure, a pressure bandage and tourniquet to manage a serious bleeding wound.

  • Shock Management
    Manage shock by conducting a primary assessment, protecting the patient and stabilizing the head.

  • Spinal Injury Management
    Manage a suspected spinal injury by conducting a primary assessment, protecting the patient and stabilizing the head.

  • Conscious and Unconscious Choking Adult
    Assist a conscious and unconscious choking patient with a partial or complete (severe) airway obstruction.

Following skills are practiced during Secondary Care (First Aid):

  • Injury Assessment
    Conduct a head-to-toe injury assessment on a patient and note injuries to report to Emergency Medical Service (EMS) personnel.

  • Illness Assessment
    Conduct illness assessment by obtaining information about patient's medical history, checking patient's respiration, puls rate temperature, skin moisture and color. Report findings to EMS (Emergency Medical Services)

  • Bandaging
    Bandage a foot, leg, hand or arm using roller bandages and triangular bandages.

  • Splinting for Dislocations and Fractures
    Apply a splint to a dislocation or fracture.

Scenario Practice

Emergency scenario practice allows participants to apply the skills they develop to realistic situations. Scenarios combine skills learnt during the Skills Development portion of the course. It's the ultimate way to put new learning into practice and gain experience through managing more complex emergency situations.

Have any questions?

If you require more details about the course, schedule, prices or you want to sign up – feel free to contact us.