Advanced Pet First Aid Level 3 (VTQ)
Course Content
- Introduction to Advanced Pet First Aid
- Course Introduction
- Course Overview
- Before we start - Coronavirus COVID 19 advice for pet owners from the government
- Meet Your Vet
- Pet First Aid and The Law
- The vet and your role in first aid
- The Role of the Pet First Aider
- When is Veterinary Care Required?
- Keeping your pet safe in an emergency
- Car Accidents
- Pet Proofing your home
- Please rescue my pets stickers
- Hand Hygiene
- Dog Microchipping
- Precautions and Safety
- Anatomy and Physiology
- First Aid Kits and Equipment
- Checking a Dog's health
- Pet Accidents and First Aid
- CPR
- Choking
- Bleeding Control
- Different Conditions you may see
- Injuries
- Suspected fractures
- Pet Fractures Treatment
- Types of fractures on animals
- Spinal injury and moving an injured pet
- Paw Problems
- Nail and Claw Injuries
- Eye Injuries
- Eye Problems
- Bandaging the Ear
- Bandaging the Tail and Tail Injuries
- Puncture Wounds
- Animal bites and scratches on pets
- Stings on animals
- Ibuprofen and pets
- Carbon Monoxide and pets
- Vet poison information line
- Inducing Vomiting in a Dog
- Snake Bites
- Pet Burns
- Electrocution
- Cruciate Ligament
- Illness
- Pets and Illnesses
- Bloat and Gastric Dilatation and Volvulus (GDV)
- High Temperatures and Heatstroke
- Hypothermia Treatment
- Vomiting in Animals
- Different Types and Causes of Vomiting
- Seizures and Epilepsy
- Allergies in Pets
- Pancreatitis
- Cushings Disease
- Coughing and kennel cough
- Diarrhoea in Animals
- Rabies
- Alabama Foot Rot
- Blue Green Algae
- Pyometra
- Vestibular Syndrome
- Parasites that affect pets
- Cats
- Different types and sizes of animals
- Summary of Advanced Pet First Aid
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Prevention is better than cure. Ensuring the areas that the animals are kept in and safe is very important. Finding all dangers is not easy, but by taking a little time to look over your home, you can prevent an accident from happening. Some areas you can look out for dangers are the fences. Now, garden fences need to be secure. You need to not injure the animal by broken fences, but also be able to keep them safe within your garden. Look at the height of fences. Look at any cuts or hazards there could be, maybe wires or nails coming out of the fences, just so they are not rubbing next to something, or jumping up on a fence and damaging their paws. The garden itself, make sure that the garden is safe. And if dogs charge around a garden a lot, and you have got stakes in the ground, or things that are holding up plants, they could be damaged, if a dog jumped up, could impale itself. Rocks, patios, all sorts of areas that could be different potential hazards. Chemicals, things like slug pellets, do not use them if you have got dogs around. Make sure that any chemicals you use in sheds and garages are locked away safe. The plants in the garden as well, make sure you have plants in the garden that are not toxic to dogs, or cats, or whatever animal you have. You can always check these out on the internet. Now, within the house itself, windows can be a problem. You could have a window downstairs, where a dog could potentially jump out, but upstairs as well. Quite common for cats to be walking around upstairs and jumping out of windows. If you have got outside furniture, this can be a problem. There is a lot of outside tables that have a glass top to them. If a dog is charging around or it breaks the glass, there is a potential cut hazard there. Make sure that they are kept secure. With your garage, again, look through that. Keep it locked closed, if there is a lot of stuff in there, or keep any chemicals or anything dangerous out of reach of animals. Electrical connection outside, these can be a problem, outside sockets. Make sure any outside socket is a proper socket. Mostly, make sure there are no loose cables that a dog could chew or get caught on. Now, inside the home, things like the central heating system, or heaters, free-standing heaters can cause a problem, not only for burn risk but also from electric shock risks. Be aware of any shelves, particularly with cats, have a habit of jumping up on top of stuff. Make sure that when they jump up, they are not going to knock plates or anything within the shelves over. Generally, make sure with electrical cables, they are kept out of the way. You do not want a dog to get caught in something, also chewing risks, and also getting electrocuted. The front door is quite important, that you have a plan, that when someone knocks on the door, you are not going to have animals escaping. Stairs are an area where animals can fall over. Keep stairs clear, without any dangers there. In the kitchen, there are lots of other hazards there, from the cookers, from burn risks to kettles with hot water. One issue can be knives that are on a knife rack on the wall, particularly cats. They can often find that the shiny knives, they like to tap them and knock them, but then you have got a carving knife that is dropped down, and again, that could be a risk to a cat or a dog that is on the floor. General electric appliances, we need to make sure they are safe. There is no real risk of any electrocution, but things like gas boilers, these can cause fumes. Make sure you have got carbon monoxide alarms in place just in case there was a fault with a gas central heating system.
Prevention is better than cure, so ensuring the areas that animals are kept safe is very important. Finding all dangers is not easy but taking a little time to look over your home could prevent an accident from happening.
Some areas you can look out for dangers are:
- Garden Fences
- Garden chemicals like slug pellets
- Potentially toxic plants
- Windows
- Outside glass-like tables
- Outside electrical connections
- Heaters, shock, burns
- Shelves
- Electrical cables
- Front door
- Stairs
- Cookers
- Kettles
- Knives
- Electrical appliances
- Gas boilers, fumes