Father’s Day is a time for showing your dad some appreciation. But this year, things are quite reversed for Zoe Tootle’s family. After she helped her dad through a heart attack, all the appreciation is going to her.
Zoe recalls how it all happened.
Category: First aid
First aid tips for trampoline fun
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Indoor trampoline parks have popped up across the UK to feed kids’ love of bouncing. Some of us have also bought trampolines for our gardens.
While they provide hours of fun and a good dose of exercise, from time to time accidents may happen.
Staff at indoor trampoline parks are usually trained in first aid. But one study found that trampolining injuries were the biggest cause of exercise-related injuries in the home.*
So get clued up with our top first aid tips for some common bounce-related injuries.
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Gardening pro: first aid tips for those with green fingers
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Whether your pride and joy is a hydrangea plant or rose tree, if you have green fingers you’ll be welcoming the better weather in your much-loved garden.
The nature of gardening tools and prickly plants means sometimes people accidentally get hurt. But learning a little first aid doesn’t hurt at all.
Here are our top first aid tips for gardeners.
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Why runners should learn first aid
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If you’re taking part in a sporting event this year, you might meet someone like Andy Owen. He’s an event first aid volunteer for the British Red Cross.
Every year, Red Cross staff and volunteers like Andy help out at lots of different events, including sporting ones. So, they know a thing or two about sports injuries.
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‘What happened to me makes me grateful for my family this Mother’s Day’
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It’s almost a year since Claire Burke went into labour while in traffic during the Asics Greater Manchester Marathon. She feared she’d give birth in the car – until a Red Cross ambulance appeared.
As Mother’s Day approaches, she reflects on that day and how the actions of two Red Cross volunteers mean that this year, she and her family can celebrate it together.
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Overcome the bystander effect
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Have you ever seen someone who looked unconscious on the side of the road but walked on by? Or ignored a person who’s fallen over? Maybe when you got home you thought, ‘I really should have done something’. This is the “bystander effect”. But don’t despair: by reading this you’re on track to never walk on by again.
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A defibrillator can save a life – if people feel confident
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Sharon gave chest compressions to a customer, helping to save their life.
If a person is unresponsive and not breathing they are in cardiac arrest. This means their heart has stopped pumping blood around their body. If an automated external defibrillator (AED) is used within three to five minutes of them collapsing, it can produce survival rates as high as 50-70 per cent.
There is no denying the life-saving power of an AED – but behind it is the life-saving power of people.
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First aid for burns: “I never want to hear that sound again”
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Mum Vikki Stow describes the terrifying moment when her baby daughter got burned.
Our little princess, Tamzin, is a very inquisitive soul. One morning when she was just 10 months old, she grabbed a hot cup of tea. What happened next gave me the biggest scare of my life. More