by admin | May 14, 2011 | CCEFA
Head Injuries in Children Head injuries are of course quite common in children. Most will hit their head at some time or other. Judging when to seek help and when simply to watch can be tricky. If you are ever unsure, call for the ambulance and left the doctors...
by admin | Apr 28, 2011 | AED, CPR, News, research
The Chain of Survival is a way of helping First Aiders (that’s you, once you’ve taken your first aid training course) remember what to do and what needs to happen, in the correct order. In this chain, the more links you have in place, the better the...
by admin | Apr 26, 2011 | WEFA
One of the commonest questions we get while teaching workplace first aid (OFA1 in BC) is “What should we have in our first aid kit at work?” It would be easy to say ‘it’s in your training pack – go and look’ but we’ll also...
by admin | Apr 21, 2011 | CCEFA, CPR
Following on from our last post in which we said ‘anyone can do it’ comes an interesting report about a 9-year-old saving his 2-year-old sister by doing CPR. – he said “I just went running outside and I did CPR on her. I knew what I was doing.” And...
by admin | Apr 18, 2011 | CPR, News
As instructors we always say that anyone can learn CPR and that everyone should. We’ve taught people of all ages and abilities, young and old, able bodied and in wheelchairs, folks with learning difficulties, those who struggled to reach the floor and plenty of...
