At Meducate Training Ltd we see many different types of people coming to us for first aid training in Essex London and UK, all of them eager to learn the skills that could mean them a saving a life one day.

During the course there are lots of discussions and reasons put forward  as to why someone might be reluctant to administer first aid. These broadly fall into 3 categories:

Fear of being hurt

Fear of Infection

Fear of being sued

FEAR OF MAKING THINGS WORSE

Let’s deal with the last one in that list of fears. When we have a discussion on this subject the same things come up around making a mistake, forgetting the training, panicking and making the patient’s condition worse.

My response is always that to be a first-aider requires a reasonable level of self confidence in your ability to deal with a situation. Suzanne Roff PHD believes that part of gaining self-confidence is having an internal sense of the impact of your actions on the outside world.

I believe that also to be true when delivering first aid to a patient, having that strong internal belief that everything you do will have an impact on the casualty you are treating.

In the worst possible situation where a casualty is not breathing and no blood is circulating around their body doing nothing because you are concerned about hurting the person will result in only one outcome, death.

You cannot make a person in this condition any worse.

Doing something rather than nothing is the only option in this scenario. Will the first aid you deliver always be 100% correct, hopefully it will be, but not necessarily. Will it matter? probably not a great deal. Will it make a difference? It may make no difference or make some difference. Either way nothing has been lost by getting involved and trying to help.

With the advances in the technology available such as the Automated External Defibrillator and their increasing deployment into public places as well as the advice offered by 999 operators means that delivering first aid in Essex London and UK has become easier.

The first person on the scene when someone collapses is not usually a paramedic, doctor or nurse, it is usually someone like you! What you do from the moment they collapse and the EMS arriving on the scene can be the difference between life and death for the patient.

The key point I try and get across to my learners during a first aid training course in Essex London and UK is that no matter how you feel, no matter what you think you can remember step forward  and do something.  Have the confidence in yourself that you can make a difference.

Don’t be a bystander when it comes to first aid, get the training you need and one day you might be able to save a life.

I think the quote below sums up what your attitude to first aid should be, although I would change the last few words to “in my opinion you could be wasting someone else’s life”

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

Quote by Jackie Robinson
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