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adets carried out and passed the Heartstart first aid course during the summer months, set up and co-ordinated by the British Heart Foundation. The course is a civilian award taught nationwide to children and adults.
The course involved the cadets spending approximately three parade nights learning how to deal with a first aid emergency and practicing the skills on resusi annie’s and in some situation such as the recovery position fellow cadets. The Course taught by myself covered dealing with a conscious casualty, the recovery position, dealing with major bleeds, suspected heart attacks, choking and when and how to perform CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation).
All the cadets were enthusiastic to learn these lifesaving skills and understood the importance of knowing when to put them into action. These skills will hopefully stay with the cadets for years to come and although we hope they are never needed it gives me and I am sure people around these young people piece of mind to know they have the knowledge of what to do if a situation for first aid arises.
The next step for these cadets is to gain the Youth lifesaver award which is a slightly more intense and in depth first aid course . This course will be taught by staff at the squadron hopefully at the beginning of next year.
Claire Burdett (Civilian Instructor)
