Another 16 members of our local community trained in Hands for Life!
Sincere thanks to St. Anne’s Resource Centre for providing their facilities to deliver this training.
We are astonished by the community engagement for these courses.
Hands for Life is an Irish Heart Foundation course where participants learn
- How to recognise when someone is in cardiac arrest
- Confidently know how to make a 999/112 call
- Describe the sequence to provide hands-only CPR to an adult and practice on our manikins.
- Understand how to perform CPR on a child.
- How to use a defibrillator, also known as an Automated External Defibrillator (AED).
- Describe when and how to help someone who is choking.
- Know the difference between a heart attack and cardiac arrest and
- Recognise the signs of a stroke
So far this year Shankill Ballybrack Community First Responders have trained a whopping 340 people across our local community.
Keep an eye out on our social media for our further course in the future.
