by admin | Apr 14, 2016 | News, safety
A lawnmower? Seriously! Find the little people a different job to do for you. Recent (US) research has found about 16 mower-related accidents per state, per year. Most of them (unsurprisingly) in the warm months from April to September. About ¾ of them could have been...
by admin | Apr 6, 2016 | News, Poisoning
With all this nice weather, we hope you and your children are getting chance to enjoy your yard, garden or the local parks and wild spaces. Of course, with nice weather comes all the nice flowers. Now, which ones are poisonous and which did your child just eat? We...
by admin | Mar 31, 2016 | CPR, News, research
Some countries have adopted compression-only CPR as the main method taught to the public, while other countries including Canada have not. All our courses teach you 30 compressions and 2 breaths in a cycle. So why the difference? Aren’t we all human? CPR 30:2 In...
by admin | Mar 8, 2016 | News
You’ll be aware from previous posts that things will be chasing over the next year. Here’s what we know from the Red Cross, with our own comments. Every five years, the first aid and CPR guidelines are reviewed and updated. The new guidelines for first aid...
by admin | Dec 17, 2015 | News
Yes. You want to know more…? There is now enough evidence that doctors have created or I suppose – defined – a new condition called CTE: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. ‘Chronic’ means it comes on over time, not just from a one-off head injury, ‘Traumatic’ – well we...
by admin | Nov 11, 2015 | News
Seems like first aid changes every few years: we have to do something to make your re-cert less dull, right? Canadian Red Cross first aid will change during 2016 and even we haven’t had any official updates yet, so here’s some advice and speculation. When...
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