General

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.

11ème Congrès de l'ERC (European Resuscitation Council)

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:04:34 GMT

Après Porto en 2010, le symposium scientifique organisé à Malte en 2011, l'ERC organisera la 11ème édition de son Congrès à Vienne en Autriche, les 18, 19 et 20 octobre 2012.

Le congrès se déroulera à:

HOFBURG Vienna
Wiener Kongresszentrum Hofburg BetriebsgesmbH
Postfach 113, Heldenplatz,
1014 Wien, Austria
T +43 1 5873666 16, F +43 1 5356426
www.hofburg.com

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)