Save a life! Community Emergency First Aid Training

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Save a life! Community Emergency First Aid Training

Would you know what to do if someone stopped breathing?

If not, then emergency first aid training should be on your list of essential skills

It could be you who needs help

We offer low-cost community courses a few times a year. Priced at 50% of our usual fee to enable more people to gain these essential skills.

Saturday, November 04 2017

10.30am - 13.30pm

St. Barnabas 40 Calton Avenue Dulwich Village SE21 7DG

?30.00 (would normally be ?65.00)

Booking

Via Eventbrite: https://community-first-aid-tickets-2017.eventbrite.co.uk

Details

A family-friendly first aid course which aims to teach you the essential basics of emergency first aid procedures for adults, children and babies. Our courses are designed to be simple to do and easy to remember.

This course will cover how to help someone who is unconscious (breathing & not breathing) or choking. Also, you will learn what to do with head injuries, severe allergic reactions, bleeding, burns & scalds, sprains & strains etc. Run in small informal groups with practical hands-on experience on resuscitation mannequins and time for Q&A?s

What will you learn?

Essential skills to be able to manage the priorities of first aid confidently. An unconscious casualty who is breathing ? recovery position.

An unconscious person who is not breathing ? CPR

Understand the importance of a defibrillator

Recognise and manage someone who is in shock

Recognise and manage an acute allergic reaction - Anaphylactic shock

Recognise and manage an adult, child or baby who is choking

Recognise and manage a head injury, skull fracture, concussion and compression

Recognise and manage someone who is having a seizure

Manage someone who is having a heart attack or angina

Identify and manage and treat shock

learn simple steps which will keep you safe

Who should book this course

Open to anyone over 16 yrs, we often get 3 generations of families attending which is brilliant! Perfect for expectant parents or parents of children of all ages, family members and grandparents.

In just 3 hours using relevant real-life scenarios, you will learn the basics of first aid and simple life-saving skills including CPR on a resuscitating mannequin, which will enable you to feel confident to help someone in an emergency and give you the knowledge to save a life!

About us

Hands on first aid training offers, flexible, practical first aid training for individuals, new parents, businesses and community groups. We aim to make first aid essential skills simple to learn and easy to remember, you will learn the basics of first aid and feel confident to help someone in an emergency.

Courses are delivered in a relaxed environment in small groups to ensure that everyone has individual attention. With a combination of powerpoint presentations, handouts, video and practical sessions which offer hands-on experience with realistic feedback resuscitation manikins. Please note: To be effective CPR is usually performed on the floor.

We use state of the art Prestan training manikins which offer life-like and responsive training, which gives people a realistic experience of the best ? real life" CPR outcomes.

Please note

This course is a not a certified and therefore not suitable for individuals who need first aid training for a professional or work environment.