Suitable for:-
Anyone who has access to a defibrillator.

Recognition:-
Meets the requirements of the HSE for "Appointed Persons in the Workplace" training.

Prerequisites:-
None

Length:-
7-8 hours for the unqualified.

Cardiac arrest is one of the major killers in the UK. Many people think that CPR restarts the heart, but it does not and defibrillation is now recognised as the only way to restart a non-beating heart. CPR is a stopgap measure to keep the tissues oxygenated.
The Chief Medical Officer of the European Resuscitation Council, recently stated:-

"It is time to become a little bit more imaginative. It is time to have defibrillators in public places, hospital wards, large stadia, police vehicles, large aircraft and large ships. Let the aphorism for the nineties be this: if a patient has to be brought to the hospital for resuscitation, it should be considered as a failure of the system."

• scene assessment
• safety and hygiene
• communicable diseases
• primary survey
• the recovery position
• the "chain of survival"
• rescue breathing
• CPR

4 hour Course Only

• basic skills revision and update

Both Courses

• anatomy and physiology
• the "chain of survival"
• defibrillator theory
• user safety with a defibrillator
• CPR
• defibrillation