Life Support Awards
Lifesaving isn't just about rescuing people from water, you can learn how to save lives without even going near water!
Some of the most important skills to learn are basic life support techniques for resuscitating people who are unconscious.
RLSS UK has a number of awards to teach these skills, suitable for all ages.
The Life Support awards are standard as part of the other water-based lifesaving awards, but can also be taken separately.
Community courses such as Heartstart and Save a Baby's Life last only 2 hours and can be run for your group. For more information on community courses, visit the Community page.
| Junior Life Support | Rescue Breathing | Community Heartstart | Life Support 1 | Life Support 1 Theory |
| Demonstrate awareness of: own safety, assessing response, summoning help checking the airway; head tilt & chin lift; recovery position; using telephone in an emergency. |
Demonstrate awareness of: own safety; assessing response; summoning help; turning the casualty; rescue breathing; sequence of resuscitation; action for vomiting; recovery position ;using telephone in an emergency | Demonstrate assessing response; summoning help; sequence of resuscitation; applying cardiopulmonary resuscitation; recovery position; treatment for choking, bleeding and heart attack | Demonstrate competence in turning a casualty onto back, rescue breathing, action for vomiting, recovery positionon and either child or adult CPR | Answer 4-6 questions on : choking, bleeding & shock differences in life support for adult, child and baby |
| Life Support 2 | Life Support 2 Initiative Test | Life Support 3 | Life Support 3 Initiative Test | |
| Demonstrate proficiency in turning casualty onto back, rescue breathing, action for vomiting, recovery position, and both Adult and Child CPR. | Using initiative, demonstrate the diagnosis and treatment of one casualty using the skills and knowledge within theLife Support 2 syllabus. | Demonstrate excellence in turning a casualty onto back, rescue breathing, action for vomiting, recovery position, adult CPR with one and two rescuers, child and babyCPR. | Using initiative, demonstrate the diagnosis and treatment of two casualties using the skills and knowledge within the Life Support 3 syllabus | |
| Life Support 2 Theory | Life Support 3 Theory | |||
| Answer 6 - 8 questions on the sequence of resuscitation, choking, bleeding, shock, hypothermia, drowning, differences in resuscitation of adult, child and babies | Answer 10 - 12 questions on the sequence of resuscitationchoking, bleeding, shock, hypothermia, drowning, differences in technique required for resuscitation of adult, child and infants | |||
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