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Life Support

The Life Support award considers an unresponsive adult. It teaches you how to treat them whether or not they are breathing. This involves the recovery position or CPR respectively. It also considers three of the major causes of unconsciousness (besides a heart attack), namely choking bleeding and shock. By learning how to deal with each of these situations, you will be able to dramatically reduce the chances of you having to use CPR.

Life Support 3

Having completed the Life Support award, you are then free to go onto Life Support 3. What happened to Life Support 2, I hear you cry? Well, Life Support 3 refers to the number of different casualties you will be able to treat: adults, children and babies. Obviously, doing full CPR on a baby is likely to cause a massive amount of internal damage. Consequently, it is necessary to do a scaled-down version. Life Support 3 covers this. It also looks at the causes, diagnosis and treatment of hypothermia, cardiac arrest, drowning, bleeding, choking and shock. Having completed Life Support 3, you will be entitled to a three hour exemption from your NPLQ training hours.

Automated External Defibrillation (AED) Course

The final life support award we are currently able to offer is Automated External Defibrillation (AED). This involves attaching an unconscious adult to a machine that will deliver a large electric charge to their heart (as seen on TV). When someone has suffered a cardiac arrest (heart attack) CPR by itself is unlikely to restart the heart. It simply takes over its function. An AED can do.