by Helen | Oct 30, 2015 | Blog, First Aid advice, Guidelines and Standards
First Aid Advice for James Bond I was raised on a diet of James Bond so after seeing Spectre this week I thought I’d use this week’s blog to offer him some first aid advice! Be careful when landing feet first onto a hard surface Jumping from a height onto...
by Helen | Oct 23, 2015 | Blog, First Aid advice, Guidelines and Standards
How to put someone in the recovery position The recovery position is an easy way to be able to put someone on their side if you’re on your own. There are a few stages to it but it’s not difficult. This is the description from the Resuscitation Council...
by Helen | Oct 16, 2015 | Blog, Defibrillators, Guidelines and Standards
New Resuscitation Guidelines 2015 The new Resuscitation Guidelines were released on the 15th October 2015. As I suspected the basics haven’t changed but there has been some further fine tuning and slight changes in terminology. AED added to Basic Life...
by Helen | Aug 15, 2015 | Blog, First Aid advice, Training
CPR for children When I’m training my learners are always interested to learn how to do CPR for children. No one enjoys it, because no one wants to think about having to resuscitate a child. However it is a useful skill to know. There are three sets of...
by Helen | Aug 8, 2015 | Blog, Defibrillators, Emergency equipment
AEDs save lives A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the difference that CPR can make to survival rates. This week I’d like to turn our attention to Automated External Defibrillators (AED). A paper written by the Resuscitation Council (UK) in June 2014 showed...
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