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This past shooting on Danforth Avenue in Greektown, Toronto has us concerned and worried for the safety and protection of our city.
We mourn for the families and loved ones for those who lost someone and hope and pray for a speedy and healthy recovery from those who have been injured in the shooting. The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) has had over 200 shootings in 2018, with 26 fatalities as a result. It is unfortunate that we now have to become aware of our surroundings at all times, but we must be prepared for future shootings and massacres to happen again.
Coast2Coast provides the community of GTA with Emergency and Standard First Aid courses to equip and strengthen our communities with First-Aid trained members. Through various news outlets, we find that many first aid trained people have helped out several victims and have saved many lives because of their proficiency and courage. However, there are still far too many people who succumb to death or face life-altering injuries that could have been prevented or helped with first aid assistance.
Many bystanders who are in the area of a mass shooting often flee the scene for their own safety before assessing the area to see if they could provide first aid to any victims. In these horrific situations, emergency medical responders are often delayed, depending on how large the area affected is, and how many people are needed to be treated. The most important thing in preserving one’s life during a mass shooting is to stop the bleeding.
To begin to help, always call 911 when you see someone bleeding from a shooting. Then assess the area to make sure the shooter(s) have left the area, and that there are no hazards or objects around you that can injure you and the person in need.
Find out if the victim is responsive, and explain your steps of aid to you and other bystanders loudly and clearly. If they are responsive, ask consent to remove or cut away the clothing to calculate where the wound is, and where to put the dressing and/or tourniquet. If the victim is unresponsive, let the bystanders know what you are doing and explain why you are removing the clothing for assessment and first aid.
For those who lose blood at a very fast rate often experience shock, where the body shuts off all functions, which concludes with the brain turning off and resulting in death. This is why it is imperative to stop the bleeding FAST. If the weather is cold or freezing, try to keep the person in need with warm garments and/or blankets where there is no injury or wound. As bullets can infiltrate bones and muscles, keep their movements to a minimum, as the location of the bullet often go unseen unless assessed by an emergency medical responder or a medical professional.
With your emergency first aid training, begin the dressings with an available first aid kit, or available garments that can be wrapped around the wound. If extreme bleeding continues to be an issue, apply a tourniquet (if no first aid kit is available, use a shoelace, belt, scarves, etc.) that is two to three inches above the wound. If bleeding goes through the bandages, DO NOT take them off. Just continue to put dressings over the old ones and make sure the tourniquet is tight and secure.
Once the patient has been dressed with bandages, keep them calm until emergency medical responders relieve you of your duty. Make sure they are as comfortable as possible, as they might still be going through shock and trauma of the shooting. Most importantly, make sure the location is safe for you to be in, and stop any aiding if the bearings become unsafe for you and other bystanders.
Stay with them until emergency medical responders (EMR) take over, as they may have questions they want to ask you about the shooting, the victim, how long you have been there, etc. Along with the EMR staff, report the incident to the police on the scene, and describe the wound, and if you have any knowledge of who the shooter was or what they looked like, wore, spoke, etc.
Helping a victim itself is a traumatic event in itself; one can feel anxiety, spirts of depression, and confusion. It is important during this time to surround yourself with positive and loving people, such as family members, romantic partners, and friends, who are here for you and can talk to you about what happened. If signs of anxiety, depression, and panic continue and/or worsen, it is important to seek external help. Asking for help is a big sign of strength, and can help you overcome the trauma you have went through for your courageous gesture.
At Coast2Coast, we pride ourselves in training the GTA with credible Canadian Red Cross classes for unfortunate situations such as The Danforth shooting. We cannot prevent massacres and immoral incidents from happening in our community; instead, we can be equipped and educated for these events to continue to help save lives when these tragedies occur. Call or register online to sign up for one of our First Aid & CPR/AED classes today and be the lifesaver your community needs today!
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 More than 300 thousand people die because of cardiac arrest every year. The risk of heart diseases is higher in senior citizens. 70% of adults above the age of 60 have some kind of cardiac problem. There are different types of health issues that can be the cause of cardiac arrest. There are also other social factors that can lead to this situation of life or death. If people are properly trained, knowing CPR can help save lives. Trained individuals would be ready to take immediate action when required. Coast2coast First Aid & Aquatics offers all the necessary First Aid & CPR Courses in Toronto. Here are some reasons why knowing CPR can be helpful.
        A person’s brain and organs can die within minutes when the cardiac arrest occurs. Once the heart stops pumping the blood, brain death will only take 4 to 6 minutes. Taking quick action, performing CPR on the person suffering from cardiac arrest can help to pump blood in the body. It might take professionals sometime to arrive at the scene. If you will perform CPR immediately, organs of the body including brain will get oxygen and so survival, chances will increase. The chances of survival will be doubled if you will perform CPR within 2 minutes of cardiac arrest.
          More than 90% of the people who die every year due to cardiac arrest do not get immediate help. We at our Toronto First Aid & CPR training facility help you learn all the right skills. The survival chances could be improved if everyone knew how to perform CPR. Even in the younger individuals risk of cardiac arrest has increased because of a sedentary lifestyle and poor dietary habits. People of all age groups should have complete CPR training.
          While getting CPR training you might be thinking about how you can help a stranger. However, someone in your family or workplace can be saved from sudden cardiac arrest because you performed CPR immediately. In 70% of cases, cardiac arrest happens at and people often do not get the chance to reach the hospital. You will be grateful for the skills that you have if the need arises. It will allow you to save the life of someone you love. In the case, you have taken a First Aid & CPR Course before, you could Recertify at one of our Downtown Toronto First Aid and CPR Recertification courses.
       Most of the time cardiac arrest do not happen to people who are suffering from chronic heart or health condition. Traumatic accidents, choking, electric shock and drowning can be the cause of cardiac arrest. When taking one of our First Aid & CPR courses in downtown Toronto, you will be aware of all the situation where you need to be alert. There are some health conditions that can lead to cardiac arrest like.
1. Infections
2. Heart disease
3. Diabetes
4. Allergic reactions
5. Sudden cardiac arrest because of stress or depression.
You might not feel confident when someone needs CPR. When you take your CPR training at Coast2coast First Aid & Aquatics your confidence level will increase and that will help you to make the right decision and save someone’s life.
Join our First Aid Training in Toronto and equip yourself with vital skills to handle emergencies confidently. Our expert instructors provide hands-on training to prepare you for real-life situations.
Physical injuries, whether minor ones or major are inevitable, but it’s vital to differentiate whether a head damage is severe or not. There are a few recommendations that you can review beneath that will let you distinguish between extreme and non-extreme accidents; that we teach in our First Aid and CPR training locations.
Continue readingThere are many different CPR and first aid courses out there, but the majority of them are given for a period of 2 years. After that, CPR re-certification will be required to keep the license.
Here are several reasons why you’d really want to do this.
Keeping your CPR skills sharp.
It is always good to plan in advance and sign up for CPR re-certification classes at least six months before your current license expires. Even if you don’t need the certification for work, it is still crucial to maintain this skill in top notch condition so that you don’t panic or freeze should anything happen.
That and the additional fact that CPR, while not a complex practice to learn, can be physically taxing. Giving chest compressions to an unconscious person, keeping the compressions strong and delivering them at the right intervals for more than a few minutes will tire even a trained professional. You need to develop strength and muscle memory around the practice to be able to do it well. Practicing every two years is the very bare minimum if you want to keep it sharp.
A fast and precise response to an emergency is the main goal of those classes.
Follow and learn more advanced CPR techniques
Additionally, medicine as a practice, is based on science and as such never stands in one place. Procedures are improved and developed all the time. This means you will likely not only get a new licence when you get re-certified, but also learn a few new valuable things about the procedure.
For example, did you know that mouth to mouth resuscitation is no longer considered not only necessary but even simply more efficient. This happened in three stages.
First it was the only way of delivering CPR. Then it was accepted that CPR without mouth to mouth is almost as good. Now we know there is no evidence to support mouth to mouth resuscitation at all, since the procedure works just as well without it. Nowadays chest compressions are widely accepted as the more efficient method. We don’t know what will be discovered next; organizations like the National CPR foundation are continuously examining common practices and their results to develop more efficient CPR and first aid techniques.
Finally, re-certification can now be done at least partially online. Online CPR renewal, while slightly less efficient than full CPR recertification, is still much better than no CPR re-certification at all.
We urge everyone to get your licence renewed on a regular basis so that you have a better chance to save a life in an emergency.
Every season has its own set of dangers, and winter hasn’t quite left us this year. Let’s therefore talk about cold-related health hazards and how our first aid course in Toronto can help you deal with them.
It’s true that Canadian winter has been coming and going a lot in recent years, but it’s still notoriously cold.
We love spending time outdoors. Skiing, sledding, skating and even camping in the cold, crisp weather, are only a few of the favourite Canadian pastimes.
But with fun in extreme weather also come cold-related risks that we need to be able to recognize, prevent, and – in case that didn’t work – deal with, very very quickly. And all those risks usually sum up to one major risk – hypothermia.
Hypothermia is a cold-caused medical crisis with various degrees of danger, ranging from health failure all the way to severe risk of death. Let’s examine different degrees of this condition.
Mild Hypothermia – there’s no risk to the person’s life yet. The symptoms will be numbness of their fingers and toes, a sensation of cold and possibly mild weakness. You don’t need to take a Toronto first aid course to be able to treat this. The person needs to be warmed up, no urgent measures are necessary.
Moderate Hypothermia – this is where your Toronto first aid course may already come in handy. There is still no grave danger, but the risk of going into severe hypothermia is very high. The core temperature of the body, not only the extremities, begins to decline. It is usually marked by rapid shivering, with the thinking becoming sluggish and clouded. Warm the person up but do it slowly, to avoid the danger of heart arrhythmias.
Severe Hypothermia – here is where the person faces a risk of losing their life. Advanced medical care is needed and quickly. This condition happens when the core temperature declines below 30 degrees, cooling the blood and internal organs so much they may actually fail. This condition is recognizable however. The person will be so numb as to stop complaining about the cold. The shivers will cease, but their behavior will remain impaired with loss of coordination and a possibility of losing consciousness.
The reason everyone needs to take a Toronto first aid course is to be able to tell those conditions apart and to be able to treat them correctly.
We are here for you and also have standard first aid and CPR C recertification courses available for those who need to renew them. Get certified today, save a life tomorrow. Visit our Toronto CPR & first aid training facilities at Coast2Coast today.
When we hear about First Aid, it is often associated with serious disasters. It is something you need when someone is bleeding to death or has just stopped breathing.
While it is true that those situations are when you will wish for dear life that someone around knew first aid, those are not the only situations where you might make use for the skills first aid training can grant you.
If you took first aid training in Mississauga, in one of our centers or elsewhere, you already know the use and significance of first aid in our daily lives.
Here are a few benefits of taking free CPR training in Brampton will grant you, let alone a full first aid CPR course. To make a long story short, in addition to being able to help, you also learn to see avoid dangers.
Cardiac Arrest is Not only Reversible – it is Preventable.
The course walks you not just through valuable techniques to help you battle cardiac arrest. It also helps you see it before it happens. What may seem like someone being just a bit pale from exertion will become an apparent first sign of a heart attack or cardiac arrest gearing up to occur. Noticing this allows you to respond proactively, take charge of the situation and possibly prevent it from occurring altogether.
This alone may seem like a blessing to many, and should be sufficient to get you on board with a beginner first aid training in Mississauga.
Minor Burns are Sometimes Not so Minor
A camping trip with the family leads to someone getting burned from spilled firewood or BBQ charcoal. Not an impossible situation, right? Hardly a disaster either, no?
No. When a person is burned, he or she may grab the next beer and get back to the picnic, not noticing the burn is worse than it seems. The burn can fester or get worse if not treated. Knowing first aid will allow you to tell the difference. They may not be in mortal danger, but who knows how much worse it will get if not taken care of?
Last Line of Defence in a Disaster
Finally, when a real disaster does strike you want to be ready. It never feels like it’s going to happen to you. It is always a surprise, and when it happens, there is no greater feeling of regret and helplessness than sitting over a suffering friend, not knowing what to do that would help them get better.
Make sure you’re there for a loved one in need, take a course for first aid training in Mississauga. We have a variety of Red Cross first aid courses for you to choose from in a variety of convenient locations in the area.
Shock occurs when a person’s organs and tissue do not receive enough blood. The lack of blood denies the organs of oxygen, and they begin to shut down. If not treated, shock can lead to death. Our First Aid and CPR/AED courses, taught at our Brampton facility, will explain in detail how to treat a person experiencing shock. If you think a person is suffering from shock, you should call your local Emergency Medical Services (EMS).
The most common reasons for shock are infections, excessive blood loss, emotions from the effect of an event, large burns, a weak heart, and too much fluid loss because of diarrhea and vomiting (usually in children).
When taking our Standard First Aid and CPR course, you will be practicing scenarios with people experiencing shock. Signs to look out for are nausea and vomiting, extreme thirst, drowsiness or loss of consciousness, anxiety, weakness, paler than normal skin, fast breathing, cool and moist skin, and confusion.
While waiting for EMS to arrive, you should have the person relax and tend to the reason of the shock. Make sure the person stays warm and make sure they are breathing. Shock can be a traumatic experience so remember to reassure and comfort the person. By taking a First Aid and CPR/AED course you will learn how to properly take care of an injured individual.
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