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...
by Abacus Training | 26 Jun, 2015 | Choking, First Aid Training, News
It started off like any other normal after-school afternoon. Skylar Mills and Katelyn Palmer were playing outside in their Goose Creek neighborhood. It was mid-May, just weeks away from the academic year’s end at Westview Elementary. The girls were sharing...
by Abacus Training | 18 Jun, 2015 | CPR/Defibrillation, First Aid Training, News
Abacus Training recently delivered a CPR and defibrillator session for Rugby Dog Training Club. The Dog Training Club have had a defibrillator available to them for quite some time, as they recognised the need for early CPR and defibrillation several years ago. A very...
by Abacus Training | 17 Jun, 2015 | CPR/Defibrillation, News
Debra Chaffin, 59, was at risk for a sudden cardiac arrest, but fortunately she had the protection of a wearable defibrillator, a white undergarment that she credits with saving her life. Facts Eleven days after she was diagnosed with a weak heart, she was outfitted...
by Abacus Training | 26 May, 2015 | CPR/Defibrillation, News
A new survey has found almost a fifth of Brits don’t know what it is and 45 per cent are not confident enough to perform it Thousands of Brits are needlessly dying from cardiac arrests because too many people have no idea how to perform CPR, experts warn....
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