by Abacus Training | 16 Feb, 2016 | CPR/Defibrillation, First Aid Training, News
About half of people in Scotland do not feel confident administering CPR if needed in an emergency, a survey has found. Fear of causing an injury (22%) and lack of skills (19%) were the top reasons, closely followed by being put off by visible vomit or blood (19%) and...
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 | 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...
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...
by Abacus Training | 6 Jul, 2015 | Choking, CPR/Defibrillation, First Aid Training, News
A mother-of-three is urging people to have first aid training, after a “guardian angel” neighbour helped save the life of her four-week old baby when he stopped breathing. Tina Westlake, 34, said her son Kane, now eight weeks old, “wouldn’t be here” were it not for...
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