Datas and Publications

World First Aid Day 2010

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:05:20 GMT

World First Aid Day 2010 was held on 11th September. More than thirty National Societies across regions reported back on their activities using the theme“First Aid for Humanity”. A total of more 20 Millions people was reached globally and more than 700,00 Red Cross Red Crescent volunteers and staff were mobilised.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is committed to scaling up its first aid programmes and continue to improve their quality. First aid knowledge and skills must be made available to ALL. This is stated in its revised First Aid Policy of October 2007. More and more people and volunteers should have the capacity to provide quality first aid community-based services.

Assessing the Links between Community Resilience and First Aid Learning

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:35:49 GMT

To examine if there is evidence of community resilience as a result of receiving first aid training from the British Red Cross

Investigating the activities we can add to our first aid training to increase a person’s willingness to act in an emergency situation.

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:11:36 GMT

This project assesses interventions that can be delivered as part of a two hour first aid course to encourage the participants to help a stranger in a crisis.

Is an audioplayer a useful "coach" in treating cardiac arrest?

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:02:58 GMT

The objective of this research was to determine if acoustic first aid instructions could increase the quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)

Does training on barriers to helping facilitate emergency helping behaviour among laypersons trained in first aid?

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:03:29 GMT

The project aims to investigate the effect of conventional first aid training versus conventional training plus a supplementary training module to decrease barriers to helping.

World First Aid Day 2011

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:51:58 GMT

Theme for 2011 – ‘First aid for ALL’

Key messages

The International Federation believes that everyone has the potential to learn first aid and save lives;
The International Federation advocates for First Aid to be accessible to ALL in particular to the vulnerable communites;
First aid is an act of humanity showing willingness to save lives with full respect for diversity and without discrimination;
We should celebrate the numbers of lives saved both by first aid volunteers and by laypersons trained in first aid.

Teaching first aid to vulnerable groups

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:01:48 GMT

Some factsheets written by the British Red Cross to help educators and trainers to deliver first aid education to different vulnerable groups in an effective way.

Effects of first aid training in the kindergarten

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:46:21 GMT

Can 4-5-year-old kindergarten children been taught in first aid?: a pilot study in Norway on 10 children

First Aid Guidelines 2011

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:17:52 GMT

Three documents:

> 1. International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies (IFRC) First Aid 2011 Guidelines in English

> 2. IFRC First Aid and Resuscitation Guidelines 15 Feb 2011 : the participation of the IFRC international team of experts’ in the evidence based research process in First Aid.

> 3. IFRC Guideline contents 15 Feb 2011 : summary of the Guidelines

FAEEN meeting 2010

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:49:19 GMT

The FAEEN meeting 2010 was hosted by the Turkish Red Crescent in Izmir. About 30 National Societies were represented, 65 delegates attended. One of the main discussions was the forthcoming First Aid and Resuscitation guidelines.