Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Learn how to save a life like Carrie this summer
A SERIES of free training sessions in emergency life support will be held across Tayside next month.
Heartstart Discovery is running the two-hour sessions for anyone interested in learning how to keep someone alive until professional help arrives, giving a casualty the best possible chance of survival.
Courses are free of charge and no medical knowledge is required in order to undertake one.
The sessions cover caring for an unconscious person who is breathing caring for an unconscious person who is not breathing and performing CPR, recognising the symptoms of a heart attack, helping someone who is choking and helping someone who is bleeding badly.
Heartstart Discovery co-ordinator Helen Brady 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.”
Sessions will be held in Dundee, Carnoustie, Blairgowrie, Perth and Montrose between tomorrow and June 22. Training sessions can also be arranged on request for groups, organisations and clubs.
On Saturday, the Tele reported how Carrie Henehan saved the life of her partner Mike McNally after he collapsed in their Kirkton home from a heart attack.
Carrie – who had no knowledge of CPR – carried out compressions and managed to keep oxygen flowing to Mike’s brain after being talked through the procedure on the phone by ambulance staff.
For further details of courses and to register, contact Helen Brady on 01382 740400 or email helenjbrady@ nhs.net.
Alternatively, visit facebook.com/ HeartstartDiscovery.