Calling all Mums, Dads, Grandparents & Minders Would you like to learn how to deal with the most life threatening medical emergencies in children and infants while at the same time raising much needed funds for a very worthy cause, Crumlin Children’s Hospital? First Aid For Everyone is proudly supporting an upcoming fundraising event for Continue Reading...

Thank goodness this week is over! After teaching several classes my wife also had to practice her skills in the real world. Within the last 6 days we had to deal with a smashed face which included a broken nose, a 7 month old baby having a febrile seizure which lasted over 20 minutes and Continue Reading...

A TODDLER choked to death on a popcorn kernel she found at her creche, an inquest heard yesterday. Lauren Meehan-O’Byrne was just 18 months old when she died at Temple Street Children’s Hospital on March 19 last year, having never recovered from the incident five days previously. Dublin coroner Dr Brian Farrell is calling on Continue Reading...

Last thurs night a young man of 20 collapsed with heart failure on the football pitch in Portmarnock Leisure Centre. I immediately started CPR. My friend john heard that there was a problem and grabbed the defibrillator from the bar and followed me. While I was giving CPR john opened the AED and applied the pads. Shock advised!...