The Teaching Model
Our teaching model has been carefully devised by senior doctors with extensive experience in resuscitation and is designed to be an introduction to life-saving skills for everyone – regardless of previous knowledge or experience.
It teaches four simple, yet vital, practical skills emphasising rescuer safety and calling for help early. These skills, when applied in those first minutes following choking or collapse, have been shown to save lives and improve outcomes after sudden cardiac arrest.
There’s no expectation for the children who receive our training to become “First Responders.” Training is offered so that they know what to do if they are in a situation with a collapsed or choking casualty, and can help if they would like to-especially if they are at home on their own and the casualty is a parent or carer.
Our model teaches four skills:
Recognition and Management of a Choking Child
Recognition and Management of a Collapsed Child – Hands-Only CPR
Recognition and Management of a Collapsed Adult – Hands-Only CPR
Recovery Position
Our sessions teach hands-only CPR (Cardiopulmonary resuscitation) which is simple to learn, easy to remember and most importantly, can help save a life.
Casualty assessment and decision making
We keep the casualty assessment very simple, with a “shake-and-shout” action to elicit a meaningful (movement, eye-opening or speech) response and deliberately does not include breathing or pulse checks, This is to avoid:
- mistaking agonal breathing for breathing
- rescuer indecision/inaction because they are unsure of response
Sessions have three phases
Introduction
The skills are introduced in the form of scenarios (either presented live or using the video)
Practical
The children are split into three groups and the instructors help them to practice back blows, CPR and the recovery position
Recap and questions
The important points are summarised (either presented live or using the video) and the children have an opportunity to ask questions
Our training is designed to:
- Be simple and memorable. Non-medically trained adults can feel confident teaching it to children.
- Share simple knowledge and skills; so that if the rescuer (adult or child) finds themselves confronted with a collapsed or choking casualty, they know what to do in those first moments.
- Explain and emphasise the need for the rescuer to stay safe and summon help early.
- Have simple casualty assessments so that the rescuer knows what to do next.
- Be in line with current Resuscitation Council guidance, for action by non-medically trained rescuers.
By recruiting adult members of the public to learn this model of “hands-only” CPR, we can help save lives today. By asking those adults to teach school children a few times a year, we empower and equip children and so save lives tomorrow.
Volunteer
Sessions take just 70 minutes of teaching time and no expertise is necessary
We are often asked the following questions about our training:
Charity Number: 1169176
Little LifeSavers teaches Basic Life Support (BLS) Skills and CPR to children from ages 9 – 13 within school in term-time. There is no fee for the training. However, if your school would like to fundraise for our charity, then this would be gratefully received.
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