Free Emergency Life Support Training
How would you respond in an emergency?
The skills of emergency life support (ELS) are simple, can save lives and be learnt in just 2 hours.
They can be performed by anyone to keep someone alive whilst the ambulance is on its way.
The Heartstart Course will teach you how to:
Perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
Care for an unconscious casualty
Help someone who is choking
Manage serious bleeding
Recognise and treat someone having a heart attack.
Learning these simple skills could help you save a life.
Heartstart UK is an initiative co-ordinated by the British Heart Foundation to teach members of the public what to do in a life-threatening emergency: simple skills that can save lives.
It provides opportunities for people to learn the vital skills of ELS. Through Heartstart UK the BHF aims to strengthen the chain of survival by promoting and supporting ELS training in the community.
Heartstart courses are run throughout Cumbria and Lancashire by Community Responder Volunteers. They offer practical advice, whilst encouraging discussion on improving resuscitation knowledge and practice.
The benefit of CPR performed by a bystander in an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is significant. If you can perform effective CPR whilst the ambulance is on its way you can more then double a person’s chance of surviving?
Heartstart UK in the community
The North West Ambulance Service supports the Heartstart initiative by encouraging Community Responders to provide Heartstart courses for their communities. Many of these schemes are open to the general public and are all free. The course lasts for two hours and provides very practical ‘hands-on’ learning. They can be attended by all.
Are you a member of a group that has 2 hours to spare to learn what to do in an emergency?
If so contact us via heartstart@slsar.org.uk
