A graduate in Holland has invented the ‘Ambulance Drone’. Bypassing traffic jams, this can can get to an emergency scene 10 times quicker than an ambulance and has a portable defibrillator on board.
It is all still at the drawing board stage yet, but it sounds quite likely a manufacturer will take this up.
Below is a promotional video of the drone in action. Very cool.
New research suggests that taking time to extricate casualties from car wrecks, rather then letting them climb out themselves, is detrimental to the 99.7% who do not have spinal injuries.
The Resuscitation Council UK have revised their guidelines after another review of the COVID-19 situation.
A few days ago we had an email from a student thanking us for our training, as she had used it to help a friend who had had a heart attack.
We should stop teaching people to use ice on injuries as there is no medical evidence that it works.
Our mental health courses are designed by NHS mental health professionals and focus on what you should actually do to help someone in a mental health crisis. We believe they are the best workplace mental health courses available.
At Marlin we have always taught splinting during First Aid at Work (FAW) training, but it seems that for many trainers splinting protocols simply aren’t being taught. “Call the ambulance” has become the ‘First Aid Protocol’.
