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Peter Scotland, a senior trainer at Aid Training attended the Resus Council Symposium in Birmingham on 6th November. The new resus guidelines are due out on 15th October 2015 – but apart from saying that they are meeting in January to discuss possible changes there was no clue as to what the changes might be. For now please carry on training and practising BLS in accordance with the 2010 guidelines.  Best regards Paul Hosking Managing Director ...

Changes in the law to help ‘everyday heroes’ volunteer or go to the rescue of people in danger without the fear of being sued were “broadly welcomed” by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH). More details at IOSH supports 'good Samaritans' law. Have-a-go heroes to be protected by 'Good Samaritan' law. ...

The purpose of this paper is to bring some clarity to the analysis of data associated with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) in England. We thought this PDF might be of interest to those of you who deliver First Aid training.... http://www.uploadlibrary.com/aidtraining/OHCAconsensuspaper.pdf ...

From October 1st, the Human Medicines (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2014, will allow primary and secondary schools in England to obtain salbutamol inhalers for the treatment of acute asthma attacks in children. The salbutamol pressurized metered dose inhalers (pMDIs) can be used in an emergency provided written parental consent has been given. Salbutamol inhalers may be bought from pharmaceutical suppliers on the written request of the head teacher or principal (ideally on headed paper) ...

We wanted to share this latest news from Asthma UK with you................ After almost four years of campaigning, the law is changing to keep children with asthma safe at school. From 1 October, schools will be allowed to hold spare emergency inhalers. Thousands of campaigners have kept up the pressure to change the law, and together we’ve made a change happen that will help keep more than one million children with asthma safe. For more details please check the link http://www.ast...

Choking occurs when a person’s airway is blocked and if not treated quickly and effectively, can cause long term damage or become life threatening. If you see someone showing signs of choking, you should act quickly to unblock their airway. If the person choking is in a wheelchair, this shouldn’t distract you from unblocking the airway. Usually you would have access to the casualty’s back and be able to easily manoeuvre them into the position needed, however if the person choking is a w...

Well, after the 3 Peaks Challenge we couldn’t rest on our laurels so a select few from Aid Training (the bonkers ones!) are tackling the 10k Marine. Please sponsor the nutters at http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/aidtraining.   ...

In essence, body armour is designed to offer added security. However, there are many instances where body armour used incorrectly or the wrong body armour is used for a particular job. In such cases, body armour will not be as effective as intended and may even hinder the security guard's abilities, please click the link below to read on.............. http://bit.ly/1ppNpm3 ...

Changes in the law to help ‘everyday heroes’ volunteer or go to the rescue of people in danger without the fear of being sued were “broadly welcomed” by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) today. On 2 June 2014, the Ministry of Justice announced that it would ask judges to give weight to three additional factors when deciding negligence cases: - If the person was doing something for "the benefit of society" – to give weight to the fact people were doing a goo...

They did it in 21 hours and 32 minutes and qualified for a silver medal, amazing! ...