Course Content

• Introduction to Security Dog First Aid
  • Course introduction
  • Course overview
  • Meet Your Vet
  • The vet and your role in first aid
  • When is Veterinary Care Required?
  • Keeping your pet safe in an emergency
  • Car Accidents
  • Pet Proofing your home
  • Use of Gloves
  • Hand Hygiene
• Checking a Dog health
  • Initial Assessment
  • Checking Your Dog's Health and Finding Out What Is Normal
  • How Dogs Show Pain
  • Taking a Pulse
  • Taking the Temperature
  • Gum Colour
  • Loss of Appetite
• First Aid Kits and Equipment
  • Premium Pet First Aid Kit
  • Pet Bleed First Aid Kit
  • Elizabethan Collars
  • Dog Muzzles
• CPR, Accidents and First Aid
  • Breathing and Respiratory Problems
  • The RECOVER Pet CPR Guidelines
  • Dog CPR Introduction
  • Recognising Cardiac Arrest in Pets
  • Dog CPR
  • Dog CPR Practical Demonstration
  • CPR on deep chested dogs
  • Dogs Drowning and Treatment
  • Near and Secondary Drowning
  • Shock
  • Dog Fractures Treatment
  • Spinal injury and moving an injured dog
• Medical Conditions
  • Types of Bleeding
  • Dressings, Bandages and Controlling Bleeding
  • Dog Wrap Bandages
  • Paw Problems
  • Nail and Claw Injuries
  • Eye Injuries
  • Bandaging the Ear
  • Bandaging the Tail and Tail Injuries
  • Woundclot veterinary haemostatic gauze
  • How Does Woundclot Vet Work?
  • Pets and Tourniquets
  • Bandage Aftercare
  • Dog Digestive Process
  • Cruciate Ligament
  • Vomiting in Animals
  • Dogs and Illnesses
  • Inducing Vomiting in a Dog
  • Inducing Vomiting - vets comments
  • Stings on animals
  • High Temperatures and Heatstroke
  • Hypothermia Treatment
  • Porta-Bowl dog water bowl
  • Seizures and Epilepsy
  • Choking Overview
  • Choking
  • Snake Bites
  • Fleas
  • Ticks and Lyme Disease
  • Insect Stings
  • Urination Problems
  • Bloat and Gastric Dilatation and Volvulus (GDV)
  • Diabetes
  • Fluid balance in dogs and cats
  • Oralade - treating dehydration
  • Oralade - The Science
• Different Types and Sizes of Dogs
  • The Older Dog
  • Brachycephalic dogs
• Summary
  • Fireworks and Thunderstorms
  • Human First Aid
  • Record Keeping with Security Dogs
  • Course Summary