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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.
One of the problems with health emergencies is that they always come without warning.
They don’t call ahead to ask if we’re ready or not. They just occur.
It can happen at any time and anywhere at all. If you are in a public pace and suffer from an injury and/or cardiac arrest, there’s a larger chance there’s someone there who’s First Aid certified. But what do you do when a loved one gets hurt, only you’re out camping or somewhere an ambulance will take too long to reach?
Moreover, what if some risks can be avoided if spotted on time?
There are precluding symptoms for a heart attack or cardiac arrest you can spot if you took a Red Cross CPR course.
Our online CPR certification is often sufficient to spot, identify, and act on precluding symptoms and prevent a health disaster from occurring in the first place.
A Red Cross CPR course can also help you be more aware of external dangers that may cause injury or cardiac arrest. We all know that electricity is dangerous, but not everybody understands that even a small current can cause cardiac arrest or heart failure when there’s a preexisting condition or exacerbating factors.
Air flow is also important. A trained individual who knows their First Aid will be able to tell if a room is ventilated well enough or not. Someone who lost consciousness can be revived if you apply the correct CPR compression ratio but it may still not work if there’s not enough oxygen reaching the brain.
Proper procedures in performing CPR are also crucial. One of the things you learn in a Red Cross CPR course is to identify causes of cardiac arrest and other nuances which need to be considered. For example, performing CPR on a car accident victim may put them in more danger if their ribs or spine were damaged in the crash.
A big portion of our offline and online CPR certification program is dedicated to preventing health hazards and disasters so that you won’t need to treat them in the first place. Some of it is dedicated to performing it well without increasing risks.
The three examples we listed above are only a few among many things you should know if you wish to be ready for an emergency.
Enlist to one of our CPR courses. Learn more and be sure you are prepared.
When we think of CPR training, the situations we picture are very extreme scenarios.
We keep thinking they are not going to happen to us… up until the moment they occur. We try to keep our families safe, watch over our kids and hope for the best.
The problem is, when disaster strikes, it always comes without warning.
And the difference between life and death is often not the 911 response time. What it often really depends on is whether there’s someone around who took a CPR course.
If you are still considering whether you should seek out and take our CPR training in Richmond Hill, here’s a question that can help anyone decide.
Do you want to know what to do when your child goes into cardiac arrest?
When you call 911 and wait for the paramedics to arrive as your loved one is slipping away from you – CPR training may be the only hope they have.
Even if the ambulance is minutes away, the chances of survival in cardiac arrest drastically increase if cardiopulmonary resuscitation is performed on the spot. That’s why you need to take our course for CPR training in Richmond Hill – for that one time the life of a relative or friend is in your hands.
There are many reasons that could cause cardiac arrest, but before we go into them, let’s define what it is first.
Cardiac arrest is characterised by:
1. Sudden Collapse
2. Lack of Pulse
3. Absence of Breathing
4. Loss of Consciousness
Once you see those symptoms in a victim, performing CPR may be the only thing that can save their life.
1. Heart conditions such as coronary artery disease, heart attacks, pulse problems
2. Drowning (inhalation of water into the lungs)
3. Electrocution or extreme pain
4. Choking (from gas or obstruction of the breathing tract)
5. Trauma, such as falling or being hit by something
There are multiple situations in life where one can suffer from cardiac arrest without any previous conditions. One can get hit by a car while crossing the road, or drown in a lake.
That’s when your Richmond Hill CPR course will seem like a godsend.
Finally, taking our Richmond Hill or Brampton First Aid course will sometimes allow you to spot cardiac arrest before it happens.
By observing precluding symptoms such as fatigue, fainting, dizziness, chest pain or vomiting, a person trained in CPR can sometimes not just treat but prevent cardiac arrest.
Be ready to save a life. Call us now and enlist to one of our town of Richmond Hill first aid courses. We’re here to help you be there for others.
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.
This is a debate that’s been going on for quite a time now.
It has a partial answer, with certain workplaces making red cross first aid and CPR training mandatory, but the phenomenon is far from being commonplace.
It is no small thing to be prepared for a medical emergency, especially in lines of work such as mechanical garages, construction sites and chemical labs. Some of those even have an in-house medical facility or infirmary to treat emergencies quickly on the spot.
Most other places are only required to carry a fully stocked first aid kit per number of employees, located in visible, easily reached places.
Let us examine Canadian law regarding first aid in the workplace.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has a defined outline of what the contents of the first aid kit should be and how many kits should be in place. The first aid kit should contain 1-2 of each of its items in case of a small business (up to three employees). When the number of employees increases, the stock of first aid items in the kit has to be increased.
This is only first aid equipment however. What about red cross first aid and CPR training?
Police officers, Child Care Providers, Adult Family Home Providers and Resident Managers, Confined Space Workers, Logging Operations Workers, Electric Power Generation, Members of a Dive Team, Construction Subpart Transmission/Distribution Workers and only a handful of other professions are actually required to get red cross first aid certified.
The sad thing is there is no such obligation in most other workplaces, with every employer making their own rules.
We gave the example of OSHA regulations for first aid kits to emphasize a point. There is a government regulated rule as to what to keep on the site for cases of burns, cuts or bruises, but nothing, nothing at all, about teaching people how to use those tools. Or how to react when those tools are inadequate, such as during a cardiac or respiratory arrest.
Happily, many businesses are becoming aware of the practical sense of having a staff that knows how to deal with a medical emergency. Offices take the steps to get their staff Red Cross first aid and CPR certified to increase everyone’s safety.
If your workplace is not on board with this yet, now is the time. Get your employees red cross first aid and CPR trained and create a better, safer workplace.
Register today for a First Aid Training course and learn how to deal with emergencies and keep your loved ones safe! Check out our facilities and book your spot now.
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.
This question is simple and the answer seems simple enough as well – to help someone who’s been injured, or fell badly ill. This is true enough, but definitely not elaborate enough.
The fact is most of us go through our daily lives practically without knowing how dangerous it can become. And it always becomes dangerous all of a sudden. Accidents and health failures never send us an advance notice. And the sheer number of things that can happen is sometimes shocking.
Here are a few reasons why we should all seek, and encourage others to take a course for CPR certification in Toronto.
Treating Children.
A parent who doesn’t know CPR is taking a great risk. Those small individuals are devilishly cunning at putting themselves in harm’s way. Falling down, running into things and suffocating on toys or candy are among the most popular ways they entertain themselves. When the injury is severe and the child’s heart has stopped or there is no breathing, regular CPR performed on adults can make things worse. You need to be trained for Childcare First Aid and CPR.
Seeing Trouble in Advance.
When you take training CPR in Toronto, you won’t only know how to deal with a heart attack – you might be able to prevent it or at least mitigate the effect. It will simply be obvious what’s happening from the first symptoms – something you might confuse for hyperventilation from a run otherwise. Then you will have time, maybe moments, but moments more than you’d have had should you not know it for what it is. Those moments are often all the time you need. Having them is crucial when saving a life.
When Help is Far Away.
Do you travel? How about outdoor picnics? Near water? Maybe with a BBQ set? Far from the city where response times are faster. Where you’re the only person who can help your injured loved one – you’ll wish you knew what to do. Trips, falls, burns, drownings – all those happen in back yards too, but they are far more deadly out there, on the road or in the park.
Those were only a few reasons that make our CPR training and heart 2 heart first aid CPR in Toronto Ontario very important and necessary for everyone.
Help us help you save a life, and all of us will have a better, safer place to live.
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.
There’s a saying – home is where the heart is.
It is sadly ironic, because it’s also very true with respect to the statistic covering cardiac arrest and heart attack cases.
Most of them occur at home.
The reason it’s sad is because you are less likely to die of cardiac arrest  else. In a mall, airport or on the street there’s a better chance that someone can save your life by administering CPR.
When your family member is having a seizure or cardiac arrest, you can call 911 almost immediately, but that may not be good enough. Once this type of medical disaster strikes – minutes and even seconds are crucial to the outcome. Does the victim live or die, and if they live, will he or she recover fully or partially? Those fleeting moments of oxygen loss may result in brain injury and loss of speech, motoric functions, and more.
The only thing that can guarantee the damage is truly minimized is to have someone at home who knows CPR and First Aid procedures. If your loved one is having a cardiac arrest, it is imperative to act fast.
The procedure is simple, almost primitive, which is another reason why absolutely everyone should know it.
Once you called for help – always the first step in such situations – you need to begin cardiovascular resuscitation.
It is performed by simply pressing on the victim’s chest in a series of consecutive motions. One hand is positioned on their chest, the other hand rests on top of the first. You firmly press down to push the chest inward, leaning on the victim to add your weight to the push if necessary. Once the chest returns back up, push it back again. The ideal rhythm should be about a hundred such pushes a minute.
There is usually no acute need to give breath. Just pushing until the ambulance arrives raises the chances of survival significantly by pumping blood into the victim’s brain, keeping him or her alive.
The classes in our CPR training Toronto facility and other locations also give information about checking the breathing tract for obstructions, keeping an eye on the pulse, as well as other best practices, but it’s the pushing that does most of the work.
Don’t push your luck, when it comes to CPR and First Aid training.
We have First Aid training centers in Toronto and the GTA. We teach CPR in North York and other locations. Pick one and enroll to save someone’s life in an emergency.
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