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BraveHeart Certified Training Standard

Choking First Aid

  • 90-minute session for your whole team
  • Recognize a mild and a severe airway obstruction, and practise the response to a severe one
  • Choking First Aid certificate and take-home handout from BraveHeart First Aid
A learner standing behind a partner, gloved fist horizontal above the navel and the other hand over it, both looking down, a classmate's shoulder blurred at the edge

The course

About this course

A 90-minute session that gives your team the confidence to act when someone is choking. Your instructor covers how to prevent choking, how to tell a mild obstruction from a severe one, and what to do for each. Everyone practises the techniques until the movements come without thinking. Each person leaves with a BraveHeart certificate and a one-page handout.

Who is this course for?

Choking First Aid is built for teams who care for people at higher risk of choking.

Long-term care and nursing home staff
Home support and continuing care workers
Group home and residential support teams
Adult day programs and seniors' residences
Daycares, schools and after-school programs (child and infant version)

What you will learn

Everything is practised, not just explained.

1

Preventing choking

Positioning during and after meals and medication, food preparation and pacing, and the oral health and medical factors that raise someone's risk.

2

Recognizing an airway obstruction

The signs of a mild obstruction and of a severe one, and why the response is different for each.

3

Responding

The techniques for a conscious adult, and what changes when the person becomes unresponsive. Practised on partners.

4

Special considerations

Wheelchair users, people who are bed-bound, frail seniors, osteoporosis, dementia and dentures.

5

Children and infants

Added on request for teams who care for younger people.

Course Specifications

Duration: 90 minutes
Group size: your team, on a date that suits you
Certificate: Choking First Aid certificate from BraveHeart First Aid, plus a one-page handout per learner
Training Centre: 28 Aberdeen Street, Suite 3, Kentville, NS, or on site at your workplace
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Built for care teams

The session fits a shift change or a staff meeting, at our centre or at yours.

Book your team

Request Choking First Aid for your team

Send your team size, your preferred dates and where you would like the session, and we reply with a quote within 24 hours.

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Your questions

Choking First Aid FAQ

Common questions about the 90-minute team session.

How many people can attend?
The session adapts to the size of your team. Tell us how many on the request form.
Is this a Red Cross course?
No. This is a BraveHeart session and certificate, designed for the situations care teams actually face. For a Red Cross certification that includes choking alongside CPR, see CPR Level C.
Can you cover children and infants?
Yes. Tell us when you request the session and the content is extended to cover them.
Can you come to our workplace?
Yes. Sessions run at our Kentville training centre or on site. Say which you prefer on the request form.
What does it cost?
Send the request form with your team size and location and we reply with a quote.