Hands-on First Aid and CPR Training

This CPR and First Aid Course is tailored to provide commercial fishermen with the life-saving skills to assess and treat injured and sick crew members onboard fishing vessels before emergency personnel arrive. Lunch will be provided.

Practical skills you will learn:

• Patient assessment
• CPR/AED and cardiac event management Narcan use
• Medevac procedures
• Assessing traumatic injuries
• Heat illness treatment
• Infection prevention and proper wound care
• Marine bites, spines and stings
• Splinting
• Stop the Bleed measures
• Treatment for common medical emergencies
• Nutrition and hydration

Commercial fishermen who complete this training will earn certification in Adult First Aid/CPR/AED and receive a free first-aid kit customized for fishing vessels. (Meets U.S. Coast Guard requirements under 46 CFR 28.210. First-aid kits are limited to one per vessel.)

To register:
Contact Sydnee Adams: sba26085@uga.edu or call 770-906-2918