by Helen | Dec 3, 2015 | Assessing a sick patient, Blog, Defibrillators, Emergency equipment, Events, Guidelines and Standards
My highlights from the Scientific Symposium 2015 On the 26th November I attended the Resuscitation Council’s Scientific Symposium where the new guidelines were discussed. There are no new numbers to remember but there has been some clarification and terminology...
by Helen | Dec 2, 2015 | Blog, CPR training in schools, Defibrillators, Events
Sam Mangoro speaks at the Resuscitation Council Symposium Sam is a 17 year old who survived his cardiac arrest at school because his school had an AED and his teachers knew how to do CPR. Regular readers of my blog will know that I support the teaching of CPR in...
by Helen | Nov 6, 2015 | Blog, CPR training in schools, Events, Uncategorised
Children should learn how to do CPR The Resuscitation Council recommended in the guidelines published in October 2015 that all school children should learn how to do CPR. This is no longer an aspiration, there is clear evidence that in countries where children are...
by Helen | Aug 1, 2015 | Blog, Events
World Breastfeeding Week 2015 Occasionally I like to write about things other than First Aid and this week sees the World Breastfeeding Week 2015. Breastfeeding often features in the media and across social media. Either because new research has been published or...
by Helen | Jul 18, 2015 | Blog, CPR training in schools, Events, First Aid advice, Training
Bystander CPR doubles chances of survival A Swedish study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in June 2015 has shown that receiving Bystander CPR within 2 minutes of cardiac arrest was associated with a survival rate of more than double that when people...
by Helen | Jul 13, 2015 | Blog, Events
My experience of blogging and social media A year ago I attended the ‘Blogging for Business’ workshop with the eBusiness club. I wrote a blog afterwards sharing my highlights. One of the key ideas was that blogs are best done regularly, ideally weekly. ...
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