{"id":63651,"date":"2021-10-07T02:28:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T06:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=63651"},"modified":"2021-10-07T02:28:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T06:28:58","slug":"youth-and-adults-trained-in-emergency-first-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/youth-and-adults-trained-in-emergency-first-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth and adults trained in Emergency First Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Three one-day workshops this past weekend certified 34 Cortes Island residents with critical life-saving skills as emergency first aid responders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The training was organized by the Cortes Community Health Association Family Support Program, which has done so every few years for the last decade. Desta Beattie, Family Support Coordinator, told CKTZ News that, \u201cThis particular training was supported in part by funding from the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/srd.ca\/srd-receives-394000-from-the-firesmart-economic-recovery-grant\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Union for BC Municipalities FireSmart Recovery grant written by Strathcona Regional District Emergency Services <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to provide skills training for youth.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Cortes Island, emergency medical services can take as long as 45 minutes to arrive on the scene.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Topics included emergency scene assessment, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">cardiopulmonary resuscitation<\/span> (<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CPR), use of an <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">automated external defibrillator<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (AED), as well as treatment for shock, an obstructed airway, burns and much more. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At least eight local organizations and small businesses sponsored their staff to attend this training, as it is WorkSafeBC Occupational First Aid Level 1 equivalent,\u201d said Beattie.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All three days were taught by instructor Amin Jivraj through the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesaving.bc.ca\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BC and Yukon branch of The Lifesaving Society<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. He has taught over 100 lifeguard and first aid courses and would like to see a world where basic first aid training is compulsory. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jivraj spoke to CKTZ News about the first few critical minutes of emergency response and the importance of activating Emergency Medical Services via 911.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three one-day workshops this past weekend certified 34 Cortes Island residents with critical life-saving skills as emergency first aid responders. The training was organized by the Cortes Community Health Association Family Support Program, which has done so every few years for the last decade. Desta Beattie, Family Support Coordinator, told CKTZ News that, \u201cThis particular&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":63656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[223],"tags":[9873,9875,9874],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63651"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=63651"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=63651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}