by Abacus Training | 22 Oct, 2015 | CPR/Defibrillation, First Aid Training, Legislation, News
The 15th October was the date that the 2015 Resus Council guidelines were updated. This happens every 5 years, so will be due again in 2020. There were quite a number of changes made in 2010. There appear to be very few changes in the 2015 guidelines. The first thing...
by Abacus Training | 30 Sep, 2015 | CPR/Defibrillation
There are about 30,000 cardiac arrests every year in the UK and ten times that number in the US. It is one of the most common ways to die. It is also one of the most common scenarios in which a bystander can save a life through CPR or cardiopulmonary resuscitation,...
by Abacus Training | 3 Sep, 2015 | CPR/Defibrillation
A VIDEO reconstructing how a man was saved by a heart-starting defibrillator will be used to encourage more organisations to install the life-saving machines. Ian Hough features in the video, called Pulled Through, produced by drp Video for West Midlands...
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 | 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...
by Abacus Training | 10 Jul, 2015 | CPR/Defibrillation, First Aid Training, News
When taxi driver Dean Clarke picked up his last fare on Saturday night, he never imagined by the time the journey ended he would have saved a life. But when a 76-year-old passenger collapsed and began having a heart attack, his instincts kicked in along with...
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