People are often confused and scared about when to move someone and when to keep them still, this is particularly important when there is a serious risk of them having a spinal injury.
Spinal Injuries
You should suspect a spinal injury if:
They have fallen from more than twice their height, or been pushed with force
something heavy has fallen onto them,
they have been involved in a road…
A staggering 25,000 under-5s are rushed to A&E each year in the UK with suspected accidental poisoning. One in five of these cases (that’s around 15 every day) will be serious enough for the child to be admitted to hospital for further observation and/or treatment.
Poisoning
Every day, 15 young children are admitted into hospital because it’s thought they’ve swallowed something…
Here is a great article by our guest blogger and first aid trainer Emma Hammett on the importance of first aid.
I first truly appreciated the importance of First Aid Training when I was working in the Burns Unit at Queen Mary’s Roehampton. I was looking after a little boy undergoing desperately painful skin graft treatment for his burns. His Mum had panicked when she spilt hot coffee on him…
What if? What could I do? How would I cope? These are the questions that a First Aid
Course can give you the answers to.
By attending a first aid course for as little as two hours you could gain the knowledge and
practice the skills required to make a real difference in the event of an accident. And
according to the statistics, being prepared is vital:
Childhood accidents cost the NHS over £275…