If you took a class with us, this page follows your handout in order, from the first steps on page 1 to the First Aid A to Z on pages 6 to 8. Each article matches what you learned in class and adds more detail, examples, and answers to common questions.
These learning resources draw from the 2025 American Heart Association® Guidelines for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care, the 2024 American Heart Association and American Red Cross Guidelines for First Aid, and other cited public-health sources. Bookmark this page whenever you need a refresher.
Getting Started
- First Steps in a Medical Emergency: checking the scene, gloves, and the key steps in any emergency.
- Arizona’s Good Samaritan Law: how the law protects people who help in good faith, including with an AED.
Getting Help
- When to Call 911: the signs that mean call now, plus text-to-911 in Arizona.
CPR
- The Chain of Survival: the six links that save lives, and the three that belong to you.
- How to Do CPR: hand position, depth, and rate for adults, children, and infants.
AED
- How to Use an AED: step by step, including child pads and special situations.
- What Is an AED and What Does It Actually Do?: how an AED works and why it only shocks when needed.
Narcan and Choking
- How to Use Narcan (Naloxone): signs of an opioid overdose and how to give the nasal spray.
- What to Do When Someone Is Choking: back blows and thrusts for adults, children, and infants.
First Aid A to Z
- Severe Allergic Reaction: signs of anaphylaxis and how to use an epinephrine auto-injector.
- Asthma Attack: how to help someone use their inhaler and when to call 911.
- Bites and Stings: scorpions, snakes, bees, ticks, and animal bites.
- Bleeding: direct pressure, wound packing, and tourniquets.
- Broken Bones and Sprains: keeping the injury still and how to splint.
- Burns: cooling heat burns, plus electrical and chemical burns.
- Drowning: why breaths come first, and how to prevent drowning.
- Fainting: what to do when someone faints or feels dizzy.
- Falls: when to keep someone still, signs of a broken hip, and helping them up safely.
- Fever: caring for a fever and when it becomes an emergency.
- Head, Neck, and Spine Injuries: concussion signs and keeping someone still.
- Heart Attack: the warning signs and when to give aspirin.
- Heat-Related Illness: heat exhaustion, heat stroke, and fast cooling.
- Low Blood Sugar: signs and how to give sugar safely.
- Nosebleed: why you lean forward, not back.
- Poisoning: scene safety, 911, and Poison Control.
- Seizure: keeping someone safe during a seizure and what to do after.
- Shock: the signs of shock and how to keep someone stable.
- Stroke: the F.A.S.T. signs and why the time matters.
- Tooth (Knocked Out): how to save a permanent tooth.
These articles are general education. They do not replace hands-on CPR and first aid training, where you practice these skills with an instructor.
How LP Health Directions can help
Reading is a great refresher, but hands-on practice is what builds confidence.
- CPR and First Aid classes at our Phoenix and Tucson Training Sites
- On-site Group Training for daycares, schools, churches, and workplaces
- AED Solutions and First Aid Solutions, including first aid kits and bleeding control kits
- Ready to renew or train your team? Book a class
Reviewed September 28, 2026. This guide provides general education and does not replace first aid and CPR training, medical advice, or 911 guidance.