13 people die from a cardiac arrest every day in Ireland and over 70% of these will happen in the home. Therefore, the chances are that if you ever need to perform CPR it will be on someone you know and care about, so the Irish Heart Foundation want to ensure that if you ever encounter this scenario you will be prepared by knowing how to perform CPR.
CPR is a simple skill and by attending this one-hour course your level of confidence and ability to perform CPR will greatly improve. Irish Heart Foundation have designed an easy course which one of their experienced facilitators can come and deliver to your club/group/community.
The course concentrates on recognising cardiac arrest, making the emergency call, listening to the call taker and knowing your Eircode. Candidates then get to practice compression-only CPR on a manikin. Awareness of how to use an AED, how to help someone who is choking, how to perform CPR on a child, recognising stroke and the difference between a cardiac arrest and a heart attack are also covered – all in only one hour and for FREE.
Please note that those who attend the training must be over 18 years.
If you have a suitable venue and at least 90 people that would be interested in attending the training, we ask that you become a CPR Champion in your club/group/community.
We need you and your friends to recruit as many people as possible so that Irish Heart Foundation can train them in this life saving skill of CPR.
When providing the courses, the aim is to conduct 3 one-hour training sessions with 30 attendees in each. These will be conducted in one day, in one location which will train at least 90 individuals in your community - all FREE of charge.
Irish Heart Foundation can discuss the timing of the courses with you, but can deliver them either during the day, an evening or at the weekend.
The instructor will bring manikins for participants to practice on along with their own laptop and projector to deliver a course. In terms of the room needed for the training they would require:
• A screen to project the course on to, or a blank wall which can be comfortably viewed by all participants. The instructor will project the course video onto this.
• The flooring needs to be suitable to kneel on for short periods of time.
• 35 chairs are required for participants to sit on, these should be set out in a semi-circle, facing the screen/wall so everyone can view the video.
• There should be enough space for 10 people to practice on the manikins on the floor at the front of the room.