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What are the Different Levels of First Aid & CPR/AED?
You’re required to be First Aid and CPR/AED certified for your job, but do you know what the different levels of First Aid and CPR entail?
Continue readingHow Long is First Aid and CPR Valid in Ontario?
You’re interested in becoming First Aid and CPR certified, but how long is First Aid and CPR valid for in Ontario? Always keep your certificate up-to-date!
Continue readingEFFECTIVE METHODS TO HANDLE CHILDREN’S HEAD INJURIES
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 readingFirst Aid Training in Toronto: Points to Consider
When looking for a first aid training course in Toronto, there are several considerations to keep in mind. The two main choices you’ll need to be making are the course itself and the course provider.
The courses vary a great deal, divided into categories and levels of training. There is the basic first aid training course, then there are courses dedicated to CPR training only, courses that specialize on giving first aid to children or infants, and many other first aid training Toronto course categories.
So how do you know which one to take?
The first question is whether you’re looking for a course based on requirement or personal interest. If it is part of a work related requirement, then the course itself will be chosen by the institution that made the requirement. Usually this pertains to work related situations. One such example is Transport Canada which may impose the need to take a certain level of first aid training or a list of them. If this is your case, inquire with your employer as to the course you need to take. If you are getting re-certified, also make sure to ask, since training requirements may change.
If you are looking for a first aid training course out of your own personal interest, first thing we can say is that we commend you for being a conscientious human being with awareness of the need for a safer society. Second, if you have never taken a first aid training course prior to this, then the best choice is to start with the basic first aid training. This is a 2 day course that will give you a good understanding on how to deal with the most common emergencies.
Once you’d completed this stage, you will be able to consult the instructor as to what what additional training you might wish to take depending on your circumstances. New parents would be advised to take CPR first aid for children, people with swimming pools should take water emergency first aid and so on.
Choosing First Aid Training Toronto Provider
The first aid training course provider is also an important decision, and should not be taken lightly. Make sure to choose a training school that employs experienced first aid instructors with medical or paramedical backgrounds. Being a Red Cross certified school is also a great bonus when making this choice. And finally, there’s the matter of your personal convenience. Coast 2 Coast first aid has multiple locations across the GTA, reaching all the way to Scarborough, Mississauga and North York, making it easier for you to get to a training centre of your choice.
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Things To Know About Life-Saving First Aid Training In Toronto
If you’ve been reading our other blog articles, you already know that first aid is literally vitally important. The simple procedures you can learn in a first aid training Toronto course or even by just reading a first aid manual can help you prevent the death of a co-worker, friend or loved one in an emergency.
What is it though, specifically, that a first aid Mississauga or Edmonton first aid training course teach? What concrete scenarios does first aid training Toronto prepares you for and what exact actions are you taught to take in each? First of all, first aid is not meant to teach you heal a person, but to keep them alive until the medical professionals show up.
This being said, here are two of the main scenarios you will learn how to deal with in a first aid Toronto training:
First Aid for Breathing Difficulties
When a person has difficulty breathing, the first thing to check for is to see if they respond to speech or touch. This will determine the severity of their condition.
Here is the general guideline of essential actions to to take from there:
1. Call for help immediately.
2. Place the person on their back.
3. Tilt the person’s head back to have their chin point upwards. This is done to prevent their tongue from blocking the breathing tract.
4. Check for breathing by looking if the chest is rising at all, placing your ear next to their mouth. This check should be performed as briefly as possible, no more than 10 seconds in total.
5. If shallow breathing is registered, keep the victim’s head in this position until a paramedic team arrives. If not, begin performing CPR immediately*
* CPR is a topic in its own right, on which we have a separate set of articles.
First Aid for Bleeding Injuries
The first thing in all types of bleeding, is to stop the flow of blood. From here on the treatment will depend on the type of bleeding wound.
Small Cuts in the veins are easiest to treat. Once the blood’s been stopped, it will likely clot within a few minutes. Wash the area and apply a plaster on it.
Deeper Cuts can be identified by them producing darker blood at a steadier flow. It can be treated by applying steady pressure on the wound. It should be applied directly on the cut with a sterile cloth with the subsequent application of a bandage. Those wounds will usually require stitching afterwards.
Arterial Bleeding is the most dangerous and will require a doctor’s attention as soon as possible. This wound will squirt blood in gouts and can lead to death within as little as several minutes. Hard pressure must be applied to the wound. It should be bandaged tightly and immediately with a constant pressure kept on it all the time.
In bleeding emergencies, time is a crucial factor, so having the knowledge to stop bleeding could be crucial to keeping your loved ones safe. In this instructional video, we demonstrate essential methods for rapidly controlling bleeding in emergency situations. Whether you’re at home, at work, or outdoors, knowing these techniques can make a crucial difference in providing immediate aid. Join us as we cover practical steps and tools that can help you effectively manage and mitigate bleeding incidents.
This is not all, naturally. There are also Nosebleeds, Choking, Shock and other emergencies you will be taught to deal with in a Toronto first aid training course. We will be glad to elaborate on those topics in our future publications, so stay with us.
If you really want to know more, feel free to contact us directly at Coast2Coast First Aid and Aquatics and enroll to a course in one of our first aid training centers in the GTA.
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Keep Your CPR Certificates Up To Date With CPR Recertification
There 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.
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Become A Lifeguard With First Aid & CPR Training
Coast to Coast First Aid is now inviting young individuals to a program that combines international and local expertise to produce the best quality First Aid training for lifeguards.
Getting your first aid training is all about being able to save lives, but being a Lifeguard is to make it your profession. Our program is based on the best practices as shown by the Canadian Red Cross, the highest standard for first aid training in Canada. Our own program takes it a step forward and offers smaller training groups, better equipped facilities and centers all around Ontario and the GTA. This allows you to avoid the need for lengthy travel and choose the training center in the vicinity of your own home.
We have training facilities for CPR and First Aid in Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, North York, and many other areas and municipalities. We make it easy for you to get your first aid certification and proceed to become a lifeguard next. Our trainers are all either ex health care providers with vast experience or ex Red Cross trainers, with both hands on expertise and teaching experience. In addition to rigorous professional screening, each instructor also gets in-house training to make absolutely sure all of our courses are uniform and deliver training of impeccable quality.
Learning the trade of a lifeguard not only puts you in a position to save lives, but opens possibilities for gainful employment in Canada as well as overseas. Many young men and women use this as an opportunity to earn money while traveling, hiring out as lifeguards on hot vacation spots and cruise ships, essentially paying their way on board by working there. In addition to this and our extensive first aid and CPR training options, we also have a Learn to Swim program for children and adults. Swimming is one of the essential life skills, not to mention a healthy form of exercise and highly recommended sport.
Our schools offer swimming lessons that are conducted in a professional yet fun and friendly atmosphere, perfect for children.
As a Red Cross partner, we are one of the best first aid CPR training schools in Ontario. Our variety of hands-on and online first aid courses is wider than most other companies, and our excellence in the field is unmatched.
Whether your aim is to become a lifeguard, or just to know essential life saving techniques to keep your loved ones safe, we are here for you.
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Why Everyone Should Go For First Aid CPR Training
Summer is here and it brings it own set of season related dangers. It is not new that we are fragile creatures, and it’s mostly the realization of just how fragile we are that keeps us safe most of the time. Caution is often not enough, and dangers tend to catch us unawares. That’s where we need to be able to take care of others and ourselves. Often being able to do that will mean the difference between life or death.
The American Red Cross has identified some pretty alarming statistics on this topic. This statistic is for all of North America, but it’s still very relevant to us here in Canada.
- The leading cause of death for children below 4 is drowning.
- A child that age can drown as fast as within one minute.
- 88 percent of all cardiac arrest scenarios occur at home.
- The number of cardiac arrest victims that survive is below 7%.
- The reason for that is because people near them didn’t know CPR.
- The number of people killed by cardiac arrest is over 200,000 a year.
- Over a quarter of the people who die of cardiac arrest could be saved.
People often die in these situation because people witnessing this horrifying event simply didn’t know what to do. CPR is needed when reviving a cardiac arrest victim or a drowning victim. This alone is reason enough to go and enroll in First Aid CPR training in Toronto or in any one of our other learning centres.
Waiting for 911 to arrive is delivering a death sentence. The time it takes for permanent death or brain death to occur in an adult during cardiac arrest or drowning is only 4-6 minutes. This time is shorter still in the case of a child. When a person drowns or falls down with a stopped heart, the paramedics simply won’t be there on time.
It is up to the people witnessing the event to step in and administer the necessary help to the dying person. There are many free Red Cross CPR classes you can take, or go for the more extensive and full First Aid CPR training we are offering in our many teaching centres.
First Aid CPR training is crucial in too many situations to ignore. It is our firm belief that every adult, especially family people with kids, should know those life saving techniques.
Let us be there for you and help you one day be there for another human being in need.
How To Handle A CPR Emergency in North York?
A CPR emergency can be one of two things – a terrifying, mind numbing disaster, or a challenge. A frightful challenge, to be sure, but one that you can overcome, given the necessary tools and knowledge necessary for the struggle.
Our North York CPR courses are here to provide people with the necessary skills to determine whether CPR is needed, and then provide this lifesaving technique with calm efficiency.
In this blog we will cover a few basic mistakes that can make an inexperienced or overly stressed person fail in performing CPR.
Always tilt the victim’s head back. Being unconscious often means the victim is suffering from a breathing obstruction. The purpose of CPR is to deliver oxygen-rich blood to their brain. Not allowing for the oxygen to enter the lungs by positioning the victim’s head at a specific angle is the first bad mistake you can make and will likely result in loss of life.
Count out every pump. Performing at least a hundred artificial heart beats a minute over the course of several minutes is physically exhausting. Keeping yourself concentrated on the effort by counting it out loud is necessary. Especially if you need to be replaced by someone else and they’ll need to know the count in order to continue exactly from where you left off.
Apply adequate pressure. This is one of the most important components of our CPR training in North York. It is also emphasized by the standard Red Cross CPR training program. Adequate pressure is essential to keep the blood circulating. There is an understandable fear of hurting the victim, but in this type of emergency it’s misguided and dangerous.
Focus on the compressions. Prioritizing mouth to mouth resuscitation has been proven to be a mistake. When you pump on the victim’s chest, the lungs also contract and draw in fresh air. When you pause to give breath, you stop pumping, which is far more important.
Always assess the victim’s response. Check the carotid vessel for pulse before starting and repeat the check for pulse at regular intervals. There will be no breathless awakening like in the films. Chances are the breath and pulse will be restored (not necessarily in that order) but the victim will still remain unconscious. It’s up to you to register their condition when it changes.
This advice is not by any means a substitute for proper CPR training. It is here to show you there are many things to learn if you want to save a life one day.
We honestly hope this day never comes, but it’s our job and commitment to help you be prepared for it, if and when it does. Call us now to enroll to our North York CPR training and get your cardiopulmonary certification.