Basic First Aid - Basic Life Support

Would you know what to do in an emergency. Are you aware that the American Heart Association (AHA) changed algorithm for CPR in 2015? The skills required for a non medical person to confidently attend a person suffering an emergency need to be update preferably every year but really should be every year. CPR & First Aid is one of those trainings we all like to go to but never get around attending.
So here are a few tips of you come across an emergency:

• Check for danger - make sure you are safe to attend the victim
• Check if the victim is responding - shout & shake
• call for help
• If there is no response start cardiac compression at a rate around 100 per minute (to the beat of the BeeGee's "Stayin' Alive)
• do 30 compressions of the chest
• 2 breaths - go to the airway tilt the head to open the airway pinch the nose & breath into the mouth in order to inflate the chest
• go back to the chest & continue with another 30 compressions
  Continue this 30 compressions & 2 breaths until help arrives.
  I am sure I have you thinking about CPR & probably some first aid training.
  Check out your local first aid training centre or look online for first aid training courses - think about training for yourself & your staff.