by Abacus Training | 1 Sep, 2015 | Blood Pressue
High blood pressure is also known as hypertension. It doesn’t usually make people feel ill and doesn’t usually give the person any symptoms. Very small numbers of people do suffer from headaches but only if their blood pressure is very high. Sometimes...
by Abacus Training | 20 Aug, 2015 | Blood Pressue
What is it? Blood pressure is the measure of how much pressure the blood is exerting on the artery walls in a persons body. A certain amount of pressure is required to keep the blood pumping around your body. Blood pressure is given as two numbers, something like...
by Abacus Training | 24 Jul, 2015 | CPR/Defibrillation, News
New research presented at this year’s Euroanaesthesia shows that use of public access defibrillation on people suffering cardiac arrest is associated with a large increase in chances of survival. However, despite the great potential, publicly accessible...
by Abacus Training | 20 Jul, 2015 | First Aid Training, News
First Person on Scene – Review and Revision As a result of the notification of the withdrawal of the Ambulance and Paramedic Practice suite, jointly awarded with AACE, there appears to be some confusion over the future of the First Person on Scene suite of...
by Abacus Training | 13 Jul, 2015 | CPR/Defibrillation, First Aid Training
Bolton West MP Julie Hilling is backing the British Heart Foundation’s (BHF) push to make it compulsory for children to learn life-saving skills in school. The BHF’s Nation of Lifesavers campaign, which launched on March 16 2014, strives to ensure that all secondary...
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