AED Training

Automatic External Defibrillator
AED Training Over 150,000 people die from cardiac arrests in the UK each year. The majority might be saved if their heart could be defibrillated (shocked back into rhythm) within five minutes. An Automated External Defibrillator - with a trained operator - at the site of a sudden cardiac arrest can improve the chance of survival from 5% to 80%. (A recent AED training scheme introduced to the staff at Gatwick airport has seen the survival rates of cardiac arrest victims increase from about 3% to 44%). Defibrillation therefore, is considered the most definitive treatment for casualties suffering from a cardiac arrest - in fact, for the pulseless adult casualty, chances of a sudden cardiac arrest patient surviving without an early electrical counter-shock are less than 1%.
With the advent of AED's (Automated External Defibrillators), this lifesaving technology can be placed in the hands of corporate and industrial responders.
Medrock Training can provide on site AED training using the defibrillator of your choice. At the end of the course, successful students will be competent in:

• Basic life support (CPR - adults and paediatric)
• Regulations
• First aid priorities
• Managing an incident
• Using the Automated External Defibrillator
• Resuscitation
• Treatment of an unconscious casualty 
• Treatment of a heart attack 

Who should attend?
Any person who has been designated by their employer as a First Aider at work and has taken, either the 4-Day First Aid at Work Course or holds a Royal Life Saving Society certificate.
What they will learn?
The understanding and confidence to deal with a heart attack victim and the knowledge to use an AED.
Course Duration
3 - 4 hours instruction (which includes CPR refresher training) for the initial course
2 - 3 hours instruction for the annual refresher course
Assessment
Multiple-choice question paper and practical skills test.
Certificate
A certificate valid for 1 year issued on completion of assessment.
Before expiry of this certificate, students must undertake a 3-hour Refresher course, which will then re-authorise their certification for a further year.
Price
Starting from £249* (+VAT)
£31 per person - Max 10 delegates
On-site