Emergency Life Support

Community group & team training

  • Delivered by healthcare volunteers
  • 2 hour course with certificate
  • Practical, hands on friendly instruction
  • At your location

Your participation helps to enable volunteer doctors & paramedics to respond to patients on behalf of the Ambulance Service.

Suggested donation £10 per person

Course contents

Each emergency life support course includes

Unconscious casualty

How to assess and respond to a person that is unconscious. Includes the recovery position.

Suspected Heart Attack

Signs of how to detect a possible heart attack. Initial actions and priorities.

Choking

Recogition of choking and immediate actions. 

CPR

Chest compression techniques to buy time in the event of cardiac arrest. 

Defibrillation

Use of community automated defibrillators with real time practise.

Bleed control

How to manage serious life threatening bleeding.