First Aid, CPR, and AED Guide

First Aid, CPR, and AED Guide is ECSI's refresher guide, built for learners who already hold a first aid certification and need a quick recap rather than a full course manual. SkillsTrain imports and supplies the 8th Edition into Africa. ECSI, the Emergency Care and Safety Institute, is the Jones and Bartlett family's training brand for first aid and safety courses.

Where the full student manuals carry the complete course content, this guide is a condensed reference. It is designed to refresh the core steps of first aid, CPR, which is cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and use of an AED, an automated external defibrillator, so a previously trained person can quickly re-anchor what they already learned. That makes it well suited to recertification sessions, where the learner is not starting from zero, and as an on hand reminder kept with a first aid kit or in a workplace responder's bag.

Because skills such as CPR decay over time if they are not practised, a short, clear refresher has real value between full courses. The guide is written to the same clinical content ECSI teaches in its full programmes, so it stays consistent with the certification a learner already holds. For a workplace with trained first aiders, keeping a few of these guides on hand is a low effort way to help responders stay sharp between formal recertification courses.

Who it is for: learners recertifying, and instructors running shorter refresher sessions. SkillsTrain supplies this as ECSI's published work and does not write or accredit it.