Basic life-support and AED training course for non-clinical staff:
We sometimes hear stories of people whose lives were saved by others performing CPR on them after they had suffered cardiac arrest.
Would you be able to help if you were in a similar situation?
Would you want others to be able to help you?
The community response to cardiac arrest is critical to saving lives. Each year, UK ambulance services respond to approximately 60,000 cases of suspected cardiac arrest. Resuscitation is attempted by ambulance services in less than half of these cases (approximately 28,000). The main reasons are that either the victim has been dead for several hours or has not received bystander CPR so by the time the emergency services arrive the person has died. Even when resuscitation is attempted, less than one in ten victims survive to go home from hospital. Strengthening the community response to cardiac arrest by training and empowering more bystanders to perform CPR and by increasing the use of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) at least doubles the chances of survival and could save thousands of lives each year.
Come along and learn how you can be equipped to help
Date: Wednesday 17th November 2021
Time: 5.30-7.30pm
Venue: Seminar room in the Mitre Unit, Musgrave Park Hospital
