Training and Education

Certified First Responder

CFR Original Price: $200	CFR Refresher Price: $100

(No cost to any member who belongs to an agency with a NYS Agency Code.)

• Course Description: This course is for non-ambulance professional rescuers who are first to arrive at an emergency medical scene to provide pre-hospital care. Topics covered are patient assessment, CPR review, airway, shock, wound management, full body immobilization, and initial treatment for other medical emergencies. Students successfully completing this course are eligible for New York State Department of Health Certified First Responder certification.
• Intended Audience: The First Responder course is designed for the person who is likely to be going directly to the scene in his/her own vehicle or with non-transporting apparatus, police vehicles, rescue trucks or fire engines. The first responder is taught how to identify and correct life-threatening problems, e.g., airway obstruction and bleeding, how to stabilize the patients and protect them from further injury while waiting for the ambulance to arrive, package the patient and transport.
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• Prerequisites: Must be able to lift, carry and balance up to 125 lbs.  Must be 16 years old by the date of the NYS written test.  Ability to read, write and speak the English language.