PlayBoard staff recently spent a day training in First Aid with Charlie Howes from Emergency Care NI.
Emergency Care NI also offer Children’s First Aid workshops. The workshops last 90 minutes and children are taught a range of first aid skills and home safety including:
How to assist a choking baby/child/adult
When to call 999 and the reasons for doing so
How to put a person into the safe airway position
CPR on a child friendly Flat Stan Manikin
How to deal with nose bleeds, scrapes and bruises
Using slings and bandages
For more information go to https://emergencycareni.co.uk/
There are a number of apps available for your phone which you may find useful for first aid and related advice:
First Aid App
British Red Cross
Baby And Child First Aid App
British Red Cross
iResus App
Resuscitation Council (UK)
Jext App
Jext (adrenaline auto-injector pen)
