Why Do You Need CPR Training In Toronto?

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.

Understanding The Use Of First Aid Training In Mississauga

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.

CPR Training: Be prepared to Respond in a Cardiac Emergency!

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.

How does CPR work?

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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4 Reasons You Need CPR Training In Mississauga

Even if you or any of your loved ones are not at risk of sudden cardiac arrest, there are still many reasons to learn CPR and get certified in this life saving technique. And here are just four of them

✯ You never really know when and who will need it.

A medical disaster doesn’t send you an advance notice of when it’s going to occur. Medical conditions may lie dormant for years, decades even, before making themselves known. And when they do, there will be no excuses, no time to rethink things, and no way to reverse the irreversible. Besides, cardiac arrest may occur as a result of an accident, such as drowning or a car crash. You don’t need to be a professional stunt driver to be in the risk zone of such occurrences. Being ready is the only one way to be ready.

✯ A CPR trained society is generally safer.

That’s why we offer CPR training in Mississauga and other locations across the GTA. It doesn’t have to be you or a member of your family. Cardiac arrest can happen to someone at work or on the street. The more people are CPR trained, the more chances of the cardiac arrest victim to come out of the ordeal alive.

✯ 911 will respond, the paramedics will arrive, but it will take time.

Time the victim may not have. While it is true that only a professional medic can get someone out of some situations, you cannot just sit there and wait. This may result in them arriving too late. Keeping the person whose heart had just stopped alive is the least you can do in the meantime.

✯ It’s really, really simple.

Most people don’t know how simple it is to perform cardiovascular resuscitation. You have to take CPR training in Mississauga to be able to perform it, but the procedure itself – once you know it – is so simple anyone can do it. And no, mouth to mouth is not necessary. Hands-only CPR is good enough in most cases. Those are only a few reasons why we think everyone should have a Red Cross first aid training in Mississauga or in one of our other locations in the GTA. Keeping safe is a collective effort, and we are here to give you the tools and knowledge to make a better, safer society. Help us help you to be there for others.

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Knowing What to do When Disaster Strikes in 2017

Disaster never calls ahead of time before it comes knocking.

It will crash your party in the middle of the night, or catch up with you on the road. It can sneak up on you, out or indoors. It loves catching people in swimming pools and lakes.

And sometimes large scale tragedies occur, such as the all to recent fire that raged across Port MacMurray, or the huge blackout we had two winters ago all over Toronto and the GTA.

The only thing we can do is prepare and keep a cool head when it happens.

But what does it mean to be prepared, apart from taking a Red Cross CPR course?

If you really want to be ready for an emergency, just follow this short list of New Year Resolutions for 2017.

Prep a First Aid and Emergency Gear Kit

Get a first aid kit for emergencies only (separate from the every day one) and keep it fully stocked at all times. Put it in a small pack with a list of additional important survival items.

Those include a three day supply of water and non-perishable food, a flashlight plus spare batteries and/or solar charger, multi tool, copies of all important cards and documents (proof of address, traveling documents, insurance policies, birth certificates, etc.), extra cash, and a spare cellphone, fully charged.

Set up an Emergency Plan

Discuss evacuation / emergency response scenarios with your family. Plan what to do when separated, set up places to meet, people to contact. Make sure at least a few household members had first aid and CPR training.

Make sure every household member knows where the emergency kit is stored so anyone can access it at need. If you have an evacuation route, plan a few alternatives in case the road gets blocked.

Stay on Top of Things

If you travel to areas of increased risk, do extra research on the dangers. If you are located near disaster zones (flooding, fires, blackouts), keep an eye on the news at all times, especially in the seasons when it is likely to occur.

And finally, get as many family members as possible through First Aid and CPR training. It doesn’t have to be a full fledged disaster for a loved one to be in danger. Saving lives is an ability everyone should have.

Contact one of our centers for first aid and CPR training today and get certified.

4 Reasons You Need First Aid and CPR Training

Sudden cardiac arrest has been determined as the leading cause of death in North America.

This is made worse by the fact that many cases of cardiac arrest did not have to result in death, if they were treated immediately. Most cases occur not in hospitals but in settings where qualified medical help cannot get in time.

They happen at work, on the beach, during trips, and in other absolutely benign circumstances.

This in itself is reason enough to get CPR and First Aid training, but here are 4 more reasons that should convince anyone to take this course.

CPR is Easy to Learn

Thousands of people a year get trained and certified to save the lives of their friends and loved ones during a cardiac arrest or another emergency. The mechanic of cardiac arrest is very simple. It occurs when the electrical rhythm that keeps the heart beating is disrupted, causing it to stop. The person loses consciousness, stops breathing and collapses. The time that passes from then to when they get CPR first aid is crucial to their survival. The steps of administering CPR can be performed by virtually anyone who knows what they are doing, which is to say they got CPR training.

CPR is Not Known by Enough People

The chances that a bystander happens to know this lifesaving technique are still very low, despite all our efforts. Every person of conscience should take the small effort of learning it, in case someone else needs it. The more people know how to administer it, the better chances are for someone else to be able to save your own life, if it happens to you.

CPR Doesn’t Require Mouth to Mouth Resuscitation

Mouth to mouth resuscitation is what deters most people from learning it, but it is not necessary in most situations. You can lay your concerns aside. The guidelines for CPR have changed over 5 years ago, and you can still save a life by administering hands-only CPR, which is usually just as effective.

Most Cardiac Arrests Occur at Home

Unlike a busy street, where the chances of there being someone who knows CPR are still slim, at home those chances are lower still. Break this statistic by enrolling in our CPR training in Brampton or anywhere else in the GTA to make sure that every adult in the household can save the other’s life when the need arises.

We have many locations to choose from in Toronto and the GTA where you can easily learn first aid CPR and other life saving techniques.

Join one now. It’s easy to learn and the benefits are priceless.

We’re here for you, to be there for others.

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