Learn skills to save lives

Heartstart Discovery is running a free training session in emergenc y life support.

The session covers caring for an unconscious person who is breathing, caring for an unconscious person who is not breathing and performing CPR, how to recognise the signs and symptoms of a heart attack and how to deal with it, helping someone who is choking and helping someone who is bleeding badly.

Helen Brady, Heartstart Discovery coordinator, said: “Being able to perform emergency life support - a set of actions needed to keep someone alive until professional help arrives - gives a casualty the best possible chance of survival.

“It only takes two hours to learn the skills which may save a life and it is very likely that the person you help may be a family member or someone close.”

No medical knowledge is required. The course will run in Perth on Saturday, November 18, from 10am-noon.

For more details or to register please contact Helen on 01382 740400.