CPR/Trauma Care/First Aid Training

Obtain or renew your CPR Certificate

This class will cover the basics of CPR and emergency resuscitation, including the use of AEDs (Automatic Electronic Defibrillators), breathing bags and other gear. It will also cover trauma medicine such as the use of tourniquets and pressure bandages as well as other first aid topics. 

 The instructor for the class is Geoff Fahringer. Geoff is a veteran Collier County Sheriff’s Deputy and helped set the statewide SWAT Medic program, which placed EMT’s on high-risk police tactical teams in order to provide emergency medicine as soon as possible. He is a certified Medic First Aid, CPR, AED, Bloodborne Pathogens and O2 provider instructor well as an American Heart Association CPR, AED and First Aid instructor. 

The class will be hands-on with CPR training dummies as well as practice AEDs and tourniquets. You will be encouraged to practice the techniques taught on the training dummy, which will require kneeling down and some light physical exertion. 

You will be encouraged to practice the techniques taught on the training dummy, which will require kneeling down and some light physical exertion.

Topics Covered: 

• Use of an Automatic Electronic Defibrillator (AED)
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) 
• Warning signs of stroke
• Infant CPR 
• Tourniquet use and emergency first aid