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Hi all and welcome to another blog. When teaching a standard provide first aid course, we cover your primary survey (also called an emergency action plan or basic life support flow chart) in a decent amount of depth. But due to time restraints, we only briefly touch...

G’day everyone and welcome to a belated start to the blogs for 2019. This first blog comes as a result of one of our Facebook quizzes we ran a few weeks back. It was also prompted by this news article I read yesterday:...

G’day everyone, hope you’re all doing well in the lead up to the silly season. This blog will be having a look at some of the weird and wonderful first aid myths that crop up from time to time in our courses and on the internet. Some are outdated, some are misguided,...

Removal of Motorcycle Helmets in the First Aid Setting G’day everyone and welcome to another blog. The topic for this blog has come about as a result of one of the more common questions that we as first aid trainers get asked: What do you do if a motorcyclist has a...

G’day everyone and thanks for reading another blog. This one has come about from an article that boss man Andy sent me, found here. In a nutshell, a nine-month-old little fella was playing in his backyard in America with the garden hose, when things went from innocent...

G’day everyone and welcome back to another blog. Recently, Paradise First Aid were proud to announce that, in partnership with Med Response Pty Ltd, we will now be the first and currently the only providers of the Stop the Bleed workshop based on the east coast of...

Tingles in the tap – why we should be cautious and what to do if things go wrong Hi folks, welcome back to the blog. Apologies for not posting anything up for some time, we were very busy in the lead up to the Commonwealth Games and subsequent events at home have held...

Not long ago, I was reading the news online as I do most days. There was a story that chilled me to the core, and one that I’m sure nearly all parents would relate to. I read about the drowning death of a 3 year old boy on the Gold Coast. What makes this story...

As a young fella growing up and thinking I was grown up, I would occasionally forget I was around my parents and let the odd swear word out. I was regularly given a ‘talking too’ with the threat of ‘getting my mouth washed out with soap’. This actually happened to me...

Hi all and welcome to 2018. The first blog of the year will look at the very ugly and potentially deadly stonefish. In light of recent media coverage of four stonefish envenomation’s in South East Queensland (3 x females aged 11, 12 and 35 at Tallebudgera Creek on the...