Community First Aid Responders
Community First Aid Responders (CFARs) are laypersons within the community who have been certified to operate within an emergency response system. CFARs play a key role in recognizing signs of danger, assessing scene safety, performing simple live-saving interventions, and transporting patients to health facilities.
Together with the Paediatric Blast Injury Partnership and Norwegian People’s Aid, EXTRACCT has developed several resources for use in the CFAR Curriculum.
Community First Responders Curriculum
CFARs who are interested in teaching others can complete a “Training of Trainers” course. The materials below are open-access and free to use. For pre/post course surveys and skill evaluation forms, please email: explosiveweaponstraumacare@gmail.com
The cABCDE approach
The CABCDE approach is an assesment tool that can be used when approaching a criticially ill or injured patient. This approach can help CFARs in identifying risks pertaining to Catastrophic bleeding, Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Disability, Exposure and environment.
Video instruction on how to use this approach for catastrophic bleeding and unresponsive patients have been provided below in both English and Arabic.