The 2 day (16 hour) Outdoor First Aid course is a standard course for outdoor instructors. This series of blogs will help those who work in the outdoors to learn more about adapting first aid skills to their environment.
Whether taking groups hill walking, mountain biking, canoeing, kayaking or ski-ing this is the course for outdoor instructors. The course is also appropriate for Forest Schools and Outdoor Woodland Learning groups, countryside rangers, ecologists and estate workers.
Forest school is a form of outdoor education, which aims to challenge traditional education concepts by encouraging children to explore nature, work as a team and learn through independent play. The concept of a Forest School has origins in Scandinavia culture. But this isn’t hygge, lagom or candles. In Denmark, it is a compulsory part…
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First Aid for Acid Attacks First Aid for Acid Attacks In July 2017, two men on a moped carried out five acid attacks during a spree across London which lasted less than 90 minutes, police said, without provocation. Would you know what to do, if yourself or a friend was attacked? The first ten minutes
How to Treat a Significantly Bleeding Injury In this post, you’ll learn about CARE and how to bandage an injury that is bleeding significantly but does not have an impaled or embedded object in the wound. Transcription: Hi my name’s Tom from the First Aid Training Co-operative and in this video we’re going to show you how
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How To Treat a Choking Adult How To Treat a Choking Adult This video from the First Aid Training Co-operative shows you how to treat a conscious adult who you suspect is fully choking and unable to breath or cough. Transcription: Hi I’m Tom from the First Aid Training Co-operative and in this video we’re
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Advice for first-aiders responding to harness suspension incidents. In 2008 the Health and Safety Executive produced an evidence based review of published medical literature, which clarified guidance on the first aid management of a person falling into suspension in a harness who may develop ‘suspension trauma’. The key recommendations are: No change should be made
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Should I give an Aspirin to a suspected Stroke casualty? The First Aid Training Co-operative asks the question. Some of you may have heard or read recent advice that we should give aspirin for stokes casualties. New research states that “Casualties who take aspirin during a minor stroke can reduce the chances of a recurrence
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Wilderness First Aid training Kenya 2016 Cory Jones Director of Outdoor First Aid Limited and First Aid Training Co-operative has recently returned from three weeks training in Kenya. Over 100 candidates took part in courses across Kenya. Course feedback has been positive. Many of the candidates on courses said that the training was useful for
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Medical Emergency in a Remote Environment – The Kelly McGarry story Following the good news story in last week’s blog, where a student of the First Aid Training Co-operative was able to use a defibrillator on a casualty successfully. This week, the sad news of professional mountain biker, Kelly McGarry ’s untimely death in New
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Organ Donor Registration It was National Transplant Week last week (7-13 September 2015) which is a fantastic way to promote the idea that saving lives isn’t something that you necessarily have to be alive yourself to do. The campaign has had two parts to it, one is to encourage people to sign up to being
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