Pet First Aid & CPR
This course is ideal for any dog walker, pet sitter, kennel attendant, or pet owner to enhance their knowledge and know how to react during a pet emergency. Pet First Aid & CPR Certificate granted upon completion.
In this course you will learn everything from animal behavior, restraint, physical exam, vital signs, common ailments in pets, responding to pet injury & trauma, physiological & breed specific concerns, & how to perform CPR on a pet at home. This is a self-paced course with recorded lessons and recommended skills to complete on a live pet in your own time. The average time to complete the course is approximately 6-8 hours. Optionally, you can upload videos of yourself performing the hands-on skills if you would like feedback from the instructor. Students will receive a printable skill checklist to be completed over time. There are lessons, demonstrations, and quizzes on each section. You will have the option to print the lessons for your own notes.
Recommended Supplies
•Stethoscope
•Thermometer
•Rolled Gauze
•Live Pet for Vital Signs
Pet First Aid & CPR Skill Checklist
Safety & Restraint Lesson
Safety & Restraint Quiz
Physical Exam & Vital Signs Lesson
Physical Exam & Vital Signs Quiz
Common Ailments in Dogs, Cats, Pocket Pets, & Exotics
Common Pet Ailments Quiz
Environmental Pet Hazards: Hypothermia, Hyperthermia, Foreign Body Ingestion, Choking, Poison, Insect Diseases, & Insect Bites
Environmental Hazards Quiz
Trauma & Injury: Hit by Car, High-Rise Fall, Animal-Animal Attack, Musculoskeletal, & Wounds
Trauma & Injury Quiz
Physiological & Breed Predisposed: Newborns, Hypoglycemia, Hyperglycemia, Diabetes, Pancreatitis, Hind End Paralysis, Spinal Injury, Laryngeal Paralysis, Seizures, Bloat, Shock, & Cardiac-Arrest
Physiological & Breed Predisposed Concerns
CPR
CPR Quiz
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