by Helen | Sep 13, 2014 | Assessing a sick patient, Blog, First Aid advice
First Aid for Heart Attacks When teaching health professionals one of the required elements of their courses is how to recognise someone who is having a heart attack, but this is equally important for all of us. What is a heart attack? It’s often confused with...
by Helen | Sep 5, 2014 | Blog, CPR training in schools, Events, First Aid advice
Teaching CPR in Schools As we start the new autumn term we may thinking about what our children will learn this year. Last year I attended the Advance Life Support Instructors’ Day which is organised by the Resuscitation Council. During the day a presentation was...
by Helen | Aug 25, 2014 | Blog, First Aid advice, Special Offers
5 First Aid Tips for Students My daughters are busy looking at which university they would like to go to. This has started me thinking about my own University days. Whilst I was at University we experienced the sudden death of one of our students, Lenny. This has...
by Helen | Aug 18, 2014 | Blog, First Aid advice, Guidelines and Standards
What to do if someone is choking When I’m teaching and we discuss the management of choking it’s common that someone will know someone who has choked or choked themselves. Sadly it can kill and it kills children. You can read more of Millie’s story and join the...
by Helen | Aug 11, 2014 | Blog, First Aid advice, Guidelines and Standards
End of Life decisions In the media recently there has been a lot of focus on decisions at the end of life; whether this is DNACPR (Do Not Attempt Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation) requests or Assisted Dying legislation. The family of Mrs Janet Tracey were successful in...
by Helen | Aug 4, 2014 | Blog, CPR training in schools, Events, First Aid advice, Special Offers
First aid training for free I love my job! Yes I’m here to help my practices fulfil their CPD requirements but I also love to teach first aid and empower people to know what to do in an emergency. Therefore I’m happy to share my knowledge. For the second time this...
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