As well as covering basic first aid techniques, such as CPR, the class were also trained on what to do if someone is choking. "I stopped working and went to help Magi. I tapped her on the back and ...
A school first aid trainer is encouraging more people to develop life-saving skills after her own experience of helping a choking hospital worker. Lynnie Cribben spotted Oxford University Hospital ...
British actors David Walliams, David Mitchell, Johnny Vegas and Sir John Hurt have lent their famous voices to a new video campaign giving parents first-aid tips that could save their baby from ...
If you can’t call 999, get someone else to do it. This advice is for helping a child (1 year to puberty). We have specific choking first aid advice for a baby (one year and under) and an adult. You ...
First aid steps for a choking baby (one and under): Step 1. Give up to five back blows: hold the baby face-down along your thigh with their head lower than their bottom. Hit them firmly on their back ...
This causes blood pressure to fall and air passages to narrow, resulting in breathing difficulties. Anaphylaxis recognition and first aid treatment [PDF 585KB] Anaphylaxis Poster [PDF 469KB] Choking: ...
A mum from the US has shared the terrifying moment she realised her daughter was choking – in a bid to remind other mums the importance of first-aid training. Leah Porritt, fom Baltimore, had drained ...
The basic first aid practice given to a nine-month-old baby who choked at nursery was "poor", an inquest has heard. Oliver Steeper died in hospital six days after choking at Jelly Beans Day ...
Place your arm across the person’s chest to support the person’s body. Bend the person over at the waist to face the ground.