First aid in the curriculum of compulsory education in Spain

Learning first aid is essential to be able to act in an emergency situation and that is why many institutions have pointed at compulsory education as one of the keys to carry out such learning. The evolution of the presence of first aid in educational legislation in Spain has been analyzed in this research. These contents have been losing weight in the educational curriculum from the LGE, in 1970 to the LOE, in 2006, especially in the baccalaureate and have increased its importance since that year until the current LOMCE, 2013, which includes these contents in primary education and compulsory secondary education. Although the contents are mainly included in the subject of physical education, they are currently divided into several subjects of the curriculum. The current scientific evidence tells us that, although these contents are present in the curriculum, they are not usually taught due to the lack of material and training for teachers to teach them. However, certain autonomous communities provide material and training, so that the teachers can teach by themselves the first aid techniques in schools. For all this, we believe that first aid must be a compulsory and relevant content in schools, and teachers, trained in advance, must teach these contents.