First Person on Scene Update July 2015
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...
Bristol taxi driver Dean Clarke saves passenger’s life with CPR
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...
Norfolk mother’s praise for ‘guardian angel’ whose first aid skills helped save four-week-old baby
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...
10-year-old trained in first aid saves friend from choking in Goose Creek
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...
Rugby Dog Training Club
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...
Wearable vest defibrillator for heart patients is saving lives
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...
Thousands of cardiac arrest victims die needlessly
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. A new...
First aid training will be compulsory for all nursery staff | Nursery World
The plans are in response to a campaign by Joanne and Dan Thompson, whose daughter Millie died after choking at a nursery in 2012. More than 100,000 people signed the couple’s online petition calling for compulsory first aid training. All Level 2 and Level 3...
Every school in Edinburgh to get defibrillators
EVERY high school in the Capital will be equipped with a life-saving defibrillator to ensure that thousands of teenagers never suffer the terrible fate of teenage footballer Jamie Skinner. City chiefs have teamed up with the Scottish Ambulance Service to spend...