CONGRATULATIONS to KAREN, she was offered a last minute ILS course alongside a number of doctors and advanced clinicians, today she breezed through it and very much impressed the Resus training team. What do they expect – she’s a CRT medic! WELL DONE!!

Following their recent return from a youth rugby tournament the team have thrown together some clips to give you some idea of what they get up to http://youtu.be/YgzUwxGOIgs 

Two days, almost 100 treatments and lots of travelling. The guys were working hard to ensure that the kids and spectators weren’t too badly damaged with compliments for their ability and professionalism from both the local NHS Abmbulance personnel and doctors at the local A&E. Nice going!

Our team just returned from this years third Team Tours Direct youth rugby festival. With two days on the South Coast they were kept busy right up to the end with numerous casualties and sports treatments, fortunately nothing outrageously serious and only a couple of broken bones! Watch this space for photos of us in action!

CRT are pleased to announce that they have been selected as the event first aid supplier for Team Tours Direct for the fifth consecutive year – with more dates than ever! You’ll see our med teams at youth football and rugby tournaments around the UK including Norfolk, Flintshire, Cardiff and Torquay.

Two members of staff were invited to visit the outstanding people at Dauphines, Bristol – home to some of the best make up and simulation experts in the UK. They were able to glean advice and find out about new products and techniques that will make our casualty simulations even more fearsome! Look out for bigger, better blood and guts coming your way!

The team have been touching up our crash car to make it look a bit funkier! Our crash car helps us to teach people how to deal with motorists after a vehicle incident. Not only can they climb around inside it to treat drivers in confined space but the removable roof, doors and sterring wheel help them to practise spine casualty extraction – just like the real thing!  

 If you are reading this you are amongst the first people to see our NEW WEBSITE! This site is better to navigate,   has more info and provides far more RESOURCES and FREEBIES for those who train with us.

We are pleased to announce that we recently ran our first course aimed specifically at professional drivers who were able to obtain JAUPT CPC points for the training – the guys on the course did really well and the day was a great success!

The man behind Huw Gilbert Mountaineering recently attended his third UK Mountain First Aid Course and gave it a right up on his blog. His course, the first of 2012, had high attendance from a great group of people so things bode well for the new year. Check out Huw’s blog here: http://huwgilbert.blogspot.com/

As expected the UK Resus Council published their five yearly review of the CPR and Choking guidelines on the 18th October. While there were no major changes to lay person protocols the Council have confirmed the need to request a defibrillator when calling for help and have included some additional protocols such as clearing unconscious casualties with an airway obstruction. The emphasis on compression only CPR if there is no ability or willingness to provide manual ventilations was also confirmed.
The teaching methods employed by our team have always covered these points and we are pleased to see that the core 2005 protocols of Basic Life Support which in our experience appears to encourage skill retention with lay first aiders has been retained. Our training materials have been updated with the minor points and all of our courses contain them.