Free trauma training on offer
THE first moments after a traumatic incident can often be a life-and-death situation.
To help teach members of the community on what they can do in those crucial minutes, LifeFlight Australia’s most senior critical care doctors will hold free workshops both online and in-person from next week.
Communities in the south west will be the first in the state to have the opportunity to access the in-person First Minutes Matter trauma training.
LifeFlight training academy medical director Dr Duncan McAuley said the idea to create the program for
the public came from aeromedical crew members who know patient outcomes are dramatically improved by actions taken in the first minutes after an incident before emergency crews arrive.
“That’s the entire point of the First Minutes Matter program. We really want bystanders and people involved in accidents to be able to do lifesaving treatments, in a safe manner,” Dr McAuley said.
“We want them to be able to do some simple interventions that may not only save lives, which is a huge deal, but often doing these interventions makes a big difference down the line in someone’s medical care.
“It can take someone from being moderately sick, to less sick; moderately injured, to less injured – so it really can have significant downstream outcomes.”
To register for the in-person First Minutes Matter trauma training workshops, the free online training course or find out more visit www.firstminutesmatter.org.au.