Real First Aid for the Real World
For the first time EVER, a first aid training school is featured on Channelnews Asia’s Prime Time Morning.
Watch how Training Director Mr Abdul Rasheed Doad is INTENSELY GRILLED by hosts Steven Chia and Yvonne Yon on important first aid issues in this 10 minute clip. Also features My True Hero book. Check out the video here:
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Shape Magazine is an active lifestyle magazine for women and they are due to feature an article on First Aid in their upcoming issue in March. With constant pursuing and follow ups, I managed to have a confirmation from their side to allow us to spread the knowledge of First Aid to their readers. As the tongue in cheek saying goes, “There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.” Now that would be my win for the first working week of 2010 !
Nesa
Program Executive
Singapore First Aid Training Centre
Hi, I’m Justin and I’m a trainer with the Singapore First Aid Training Centre.
I had a great chinese child care class last weekend. The vibe is high, class is responsive and received good energy from the crowd.
So a child care teacher asks me a very interesting question.
She says “In the old days, when a child is choking, her mom simply blows some breath onto the forehead of the choking child, and the choking symtoms just disappear. Is that true?” I told her that it is just a myth.
Blowing onto the forehead doesn’t help in relieving choking. Rather, a proper abdominal thrust or chest thrust is needed to be rendered to someone who is choking.
Hi, my name is Junardy and I’m a trainer with the Singapore First Aid Training Centre.
In a recent query from a course participant, he had told me that he received an email in which many people here in Singapore had received also. It was stated in the email that whenever someone has a heart attack, he or she should cough out heavily.
This is not advisable as what we should actually do is to give out medications and monitor his or her condition by looking out for signs and symptoms such as sweaty and pale skin. In which call for the ambulance immediately, if the casualty goes unconscious, and if the casualty is not breathing, start CPR.
Dear Readers, we at Singapore First Aid Training Centre is proud to inform you that we are now a “Instructor Training Centre for CPR plus AED (NRC)”
Only a certain few first aid training centres can provide this special course. Now, you can learn to train just like us in using using an AED.
So.. do look out for this up and coming course at our centre in the near future.
The first PUBLIC ACCESS DEFIBRILLATOR in Singapore’s HDB Estate was launched on the 15th March 2009 at Kim Keat Ave. The very first AED was mounted in a white wall cabinet outside the Adventist Home for the Elderly to allow both residents of the home as well as members of the public to be able to access to the AED.
Security will not be an issue as several measures has been taken. For instance, the wall cabinet can only be opened by breaking a small glass to gain access to the key, which then can open the cabinet. There is also a loud alarm which will sound when the cabinet is opened, alerting the residents and staff of the Adventist Home for the Elderly (AHE) that the AED has been accessed to.
This is a true milestone in Singapore and in the history of Public Access AED. Singapore First Aid Training Centre is also involved in this project – by training 12 ready volunteers and staff to be fully equipped with the skills of performing CPR and using the AED.
This clip includes an introduction by the Chairman of the AHE, Mr Wan as well as a short presentation by VIP for this event was MP Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC Mdm Josephine Teo during this inaugural launch of the public access defibrillator AED in HDB estate.
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Singapore First Aid Training Centre featured on the Suria news. A clip showing NRC accredited CPR+AED course being conducted for Singapore Silat Federation (PERSISI) athletes. Features the full line up of silat national athletes including Mr Sheik Alauddin, former national silat champion. Dr Fatimah Lateef, MP GRC Marine Parade was present to share her comments and teachings to the CPR+AED participants.
