Pet CPR & First Aid

Every pet owner or professional working with animals should know how to perform first aid. From cut pads, insect stings, and snake-bites, to chocolate poisoning, traffic accidents and choking, the unexpected can and does happen to the pets in our care. This comprehensive course equips you with the expertise to handle these situations and many others besides. In addition, you learn how to assess the patient and prioritize the most life-threatening problems.

Be Prepared:

What to have in a first aid box

Know where the emergency vet clinic is

Acquire first aid training

Types of First Aid :

Conditions you can treat at home

Recognizing emergencies

Stabilizing a patient until help arrives

Taking Control in a First Aid Situation:

Keeping safe: How to restrain a patient in pain

Assessing the patient

Prioritizing the most life-threatening problem

Do No Harm :

Human medications: What you can and can’t give

Pet medications: How much and when?

When to contact the vet

Techniques:

Bandaging

Nursing skills

Treating shock

CPR:

Summary flowchart of what to do

What to do when the pet’s not breathing

What to do when there’s no heart beat

First Aid :

A comprehensive A-Z list of all major first aid eventualities

What to do and what to avoid

Cross referenced conditions