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Cub Driver wrote:

I think everyone should do an EMT course, though mine was so long ago
that evidently the name has changed to First Responder. I don't think
it cost very much either. It lasted a whole lot longer, something like
three months, one night a week. Very valuable.

From what I've seen, they're different. EMT courses are designed for
people who want EMT jobs, so they assume that you'll have the equipment
on the truck/ambulance, and they get into topics like stabilizing the
patient for transport. I haven't seen a syllabus for the Red Cross FR
course, but I think it's a more general advanced first aid course. The
target audience is broader--police, others who may be first on a scene.

If anyone has taken the Red Cross FR course and could compare it to the
other first aid courses, I'd like to know more about it.

- Nathan