Lifesaving training in Welshpool
The Royal Oak Hotel Welshpool is allowing their Powis Suite to be used on Wednesday, June 4, to run the two-hour practical session using dummies and training defibrillators.
After the session, attendees will have the confidence and knowledge to do good CPR (Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation) and how to apply and use a public access defibrillator that are available around the town in the wall mounted yellow boxes.
The session is delivered by Effie Cadwallader, presently with Welsh Ambulance Service Community First Responder’s (CFR’s), and two other active and retired Responders who have had the real-life experience of Cardiac Arrest more times than they care to remember!
Community First Responders are volunteers with advanced first aid and life-saving training who are now an integral part of the Ambulance system. Because they live in our community, they can be dispatched by ambulance control to incidents and be at the scene before paramedics and ambulances arrive.
The community project aims to train ordinary people in village and church halls, pubs and schools in and around Welshpool on how to become ‘life savers’ in their own communities while the ambulance is on route.
After the training session, everyone will be equipped with the skills, but more importantly, the confidence of how to use the public access defibrillators.
To book your place for the session (numbers are limited to 15) go to www.welshpoolimpact.com and see the link to ‘Save a Life’ page and the registration form.
Welshpool Impact community project organiser, Mike Lade, who is himself a retired CFR with 15 years of experience with the ambulance service, said: “In a Cardiac Arrest, early recognition the call for help, early CPR and early defibrillation are the first three links in the Chain of Survival. When the heart stops, the brain starts to die at the rate of about 10% per min due to the lack of oxygen – that damage is not repairable.
“When the person’s heart stopped, they had residual oxygen in their blood stream. By starting early CPR, the heart is made to manually pump that oxygenated blood around the brain to extend the time before permanent damage occurs and until a paramedic arrives.
“That is why it’s so important that people are able to do good CPR and know how to apply a defibrillator as soon as possible after the person has collapsed from a cardiac arrest.
“No charge is made for these sessions but there will be a donations bucket for voluntary donations and that helps buy new training dummies, training defibrillators and replace consumables etc.
The new Impact club welcomes anyone who wishes to drop in to a meeting to learn more about Rotaract and they meet on the second and fourth Wednesday in the month at The Old Bakehouse, in Welshpool at 6.30pm for 7pm, but always check as they also have social evenings at other places.
More information is available on Facebook @welshpoolimpact, contacting Mike on 07803 038858, email welshpoolimpact@gmail.com or through www.welshpoolimpact.com.
PICTURE: Effie Cadwallader and Mike Lade with some of the training equipment
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