Red Cross First Aid for Severe Trauma | Instructor Manual

The First Aid for Severe Trauma (FAST) program provides participants with the knowledge and skills they need to:

• Recognize a life-threatening bleeding emergency.
• Ensure safety and communicate effectively in an emergency.
• Respond by Controlling life-threatening bleeding using direct pressure, a tourniquet, or both.

The program is designed to enhance participants’ ability to take decisive, lifesaving action to assist a person with a traumatic injury and life-threatening bleeding until professional responders arrive. The First Aid for Severe Trauma Instructor’s Manual is the required resource for those certified by the American Red Cross to teach the First Aid for Severe Trauma instructor-led and blended learning courses. The instructor’s manual is the primary resource for instructors; it explains and describes the program and contains all the information needed for planning, preparing and teaching the instructor-led and blended learning courses. The First Aid for Severe Trauma Instructor’s Manual is divided into five sections:

• Section A: Program Administration contains information needed to conduct the First Aid for Severe Trauma training, including the program overview, instructor requirements and responsibilities, information about setting up and running the courses, information about conducting effective skill practice and scenario-based learning and requirements for successful course completion.
• Section B: Course Outlines and Agendas provides summaries of the topics covered in each lesson and their associated times, along with total times for conducting the instructor-led training course and the in-person skills session of the blended learning course.
• Section C: Lesson Plans for Instructor-Led Training contains the lesson plans for conducting the First Aid for Severe Trauma Instructor-Led Training course.
• Section D: Lesson Plans for Blended Learning contains the lesson plans for conducting the in-person skills session of the First Aid for Severe Trauma Blended Learning course.
• Section E: Appendices includes supplemental materials to support the lessons in the First Aid for Severe Trauma instructor-led and blended learning courses.