by Mel Avis | 16 Sep, 2022 | Medical, News
Dementia is a term used to describe a number of different conditions that damage the brain, including Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia and frontotemporal dementia. In the early stages of dementia, a person’s symptoms are often relatively mild and not...
by Mel Avis | 8 Sep, 2022 | First Aid Training, Heart Attack, Informational, Medical, News
The Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981 require businesses to provide adequate and appropriate first-aid equipment, facilities and trained staff so that your employees can be given immediate help if they are injured or taken ill at work. In most workplaces...
by Abacus Training | 12 Jul, 2017 | Legislation, Medical, News
New legislation was passed in Westminster this week to allow schools in the UK to keep spare adrenaline auto-injectors (AAIs) for emergency use. AAIs deliver a potentially life-saving dose of adrenaline in the event of a severe allergic reaction (anaphylaxis). The...
by Abacus Training | 14 Feb, 2017 | First Aid Training, Legislation, Medical, News
There has been a recent announcement that schools will soon be able to hold a spare adrenaline auto-injector pen for use on children. These will be available for anyone to administer in the case of anaphylactic shock. This has been something that has been campaigned...
by Abacus Training | 15 Aug, 2016 | Medical
Ablation or catheter ablation as it is sometimes referred, is a treatment that is used to control or correct certain types of abnormally fast heart rhythms. This could be something like Atrial Fibrillation (AF) or Superior Ventricular Tachycardia (SVT). A cardiac...
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