Learntosavealife

Courses to learn emergency life support will be held in Perthshire.

Heartstart Discovery will be running a number of two-hour training sessions in emergency life support to give casualties the best possible chance of survival.

The courses are free of charge and no medical knowledge is required to take part.

The sessions will cover caring for an unconscious person who is breathing and for an unconscious person who is not breathing and performing CPR, how to recognise the symptoms of a heart attack and how to deal with it, how to help someone who is choking, and how to help someone who is bleeding badly.

Helen Brady, Heartstart Discovery coordinator, said:“Emergency life support skills really do save lives so please consider registering for a session today.

“A Heartstart session could prove to be one of the most important training sessions you have ever undertaken in your life, come along – you can make a difference.”

Heartstart Discovery will be in Blairgowrie today (Tuesday, May 29) from 5.15pm until 7.15pm and in Perth from 10am until noon on Saturday, June 16.

To register for either course, and for further details including the location of the classes, contact Helen Brady on 01382 740400 or helenjbrady@nhs.net