Category first aid

What is a breathing stoma

A stoma is a hole (opening) made in the skin in front of your neck to allow you to breathe. It is at the base of your neck. Through this hole, air enters and leaves your windpipe (trachea) and lungs.…

Blood pressure: ‘Extraordinary’ number of lives saved

Improved treatment of blood pressure has prevented hundreds of thousands of heart attacks, strokes and deaths in England, say doctors. The team at Imperial College London analysed national health survey data between 1994 and 2011.  Their analysis, published in the Lancet…

Keep taking statins’ says drug body

People should continue to take statins because the benefits do outweigh the risks, according to fresh advice from the UK’s drug safety body. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has intervened due to the ongoing debate around the…

FPOS Intermediate Course Date Set at Colchester

We are running a FPOS Intermediate course in our new offices in Colchester on 4th to 8th August.  This course is ideal for anyone needing FPOS Intermediate, CFR’s. Security guards, Medics or anyone wanting to improve and apply their first…

Course of the week – Basic Life Support for Dentists

This course covers Basic Life Support skills and includes skills for adults, children and infants for dentists and people working in dental practices. The course includes: safety, precautions, initial assessment, recovery position, CPR, compression only CPR, CPR handover, choking, and…

MRSA: Hospital superbug ‘shared with pets’

Pets can harbour the hospital superbug MRSA and it can pass between pets and their owners, research suggests. Cats and dogs have the same strain of the bacterium as people, genetic tests show.  MRSA may spread between animals at veterinary…

Most patients ‘right to go to A&E’

Efforts to redirect patients away from busy A&E departments will not work, doctors have said – as a new study shows most need to be seen there. The College of Emergency Medicine review of more than 3,000 patients found only…