First Aid
Accidents and injuries are unplanned, therefore you will never know in advance which basic first aid skills you will need and when.
Cadets all have the oppurtunity to complete some first aid training with suitably qualified instructors.
Many squadrons provide HeartStart training, a course founded by the British Heart Foundation.
Would you know what to do in a life-threatening emergency?
The skills of emergency life support are simple and can save lives.
Emergency life support is the set of actions needed to keep someone alive until professional help arrives.
They include performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, dealing with choking, serious bleeding and helping someone that may be having a heart attack.
Throughout the UK over 1.4 million people have been trained through the Heartstart UK initiative.
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