by admin | Jun 8, 2012 | AED, CPR, News, research
When your elderly neighbour collapses and has a cardiac arrest, you (should) know the drill: call EMS, start CPR & get an AED… faster is better. So does keeping an AED at home help? Read on….. “Should I have an AED at home?” It’s a...
by admin | Jun 5, 2012 | AED, CPR, research
All of our training courses currently include training for AED use. You get to see AED machines and to use an AED. It’s an important part of life saving… but the training only works if you can get one quickly, so do you know where your nearest AED is? Imagine…. You’re...
by admin | Dec 20, 2011 | research
As Christmas is a time for giving and receiving, we’d like you to give us some feedback, so that we can receive, reflect and improve. We’d like you to think about these two questions (and then answer them please!). We’ve left the name & eMail...
by admin | Nov 25, 2011 | News, research
You can’t smell while you’re asleep And that should have you running to buy a smoke detector if you don’t already have one! I was listening to the Brainscience Podcast this morning; The ‘smell’ episode. This is something I found out which is worth repeating here...
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 | Mar 29, 2011 | CPR, News, research
We found an interesting news article yesterday which will give you an insight into how important CPR training is. Researchers (yes, they actually tested this) asked people, both trained and untrained, to attempt CPR in a simulated situation. Of those who had received...
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