One of the most common things we get asked is what emergency equipment different areas should have. We often find that clinical areas ranging from hospitals to surgeries have been ill informed or not been kept up to date with current practice, leaving them woefully underequipped to deal with emergencies. [...]
In our last blog about ‘are training courses the complete answer to improving survival in emergencies?’, we discussed how regular simulated exercises can help to regularly test your organisations emergency drills and help keep staff’s skills up to date. However, even with simulated exercises every few months, we know that [...]
Attending a training course is only part of the package of trying to improve survival from emergencies. Other elements include equipment, policy and crucially simulated scenarios. It is these scenarios that ‘test’ an organisations response to emergencies. When delivered by experts in simulation, who can give good structured debriefing & [...]
We often get asked what is the difference between First Aid and Resuscitation and what is expected to be provided within a clinical settings such as hospitals, GP surgeries, dental practices, occupational health clinics. This is a guide to the difference between the two and how we can help you [...]
Can you imagine trying to save a drowning victim in a river by running to the nearest life saving equipment to find it is in a locked cabinet, where you have to call 999 and ask for a code to open it? By the time you had been connected to [...]
The BBC have recently published an article where politicians are yet again calling for more AED’s to be placed in leisure centres and schools (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-25537847). The statistics from this article are quite daunting when you consider what life saving equipment is available in our public buildings; Only 1 in 5 [...]
