First Aid and Safety Tips Halloween and Bonfire Night can be a special time for little ones with the excitement of Trick or Treat and Fireworks. However dark evenings and over-excited children is potentially a recipe for disaster and advanced preparation can help to...
2 year old Jacob Jenkins died after choking on a grape at Pizza Hut. This incredibly sad story has highlighted the need for more people to learn how to help in an emergency. On Thursday I appeared on Channel 5 News demonstrating some simple First Aid techniques that...
Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2015 – Key updates relating to Basic Life Support Most of the changes relate to Advanced Life Support. For Basic Life Support we should be aware of the following. Please visit the full summary...
Burns – how to help October 21st is National Burns Awareness Day when people are encouraged to be more alert to the dangers of burns and understand the best way to help should an accident happen. In the run up to Halloween and Bonfire Night it is particularly...
I have just been reading a fascinating article on the BBC Website about how Guy Knickerbocker discovered in 1958 that pushing on the chest of a dog having a cardiac arrest, managed to keep them alive longer. The full article can be read in The Dog behind CPR...
There are currently over 3,000 cases of meningitis and septicaemia every year in the UK and its effects are devastating. Meningitis is swelling of the Meninges; the protective membranes of the brain and spinal cord, the inflammation usually results from either a...
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