Our ongoing commitment to our patients includes regularly refreshing and updating both our equipment and our skills, so earlier this month the team took part in some CPR and Medical Emergency Training here at the practice to make sure our first aid skills are all up to date.
A trainer from Wimbledon First Aid Training who specialise in delivering medical courses to healthcare professionals and other specific groups, came to the practice with a range of high-tech training equipment to deliver their BLS/AED and Medical Emergencies course designed specifically for dental practices. The course is tailored for dentists, dental nurses and other dental team members, to enable them to deal with both life threatening and common medical emergencies in the practice.
The whole team at the Wellesley came together to learn or refresh their skills on the following topics:
- Basic Life Support (BLS) for adults and children and Automated External Defibrillator (AED) use
- How to deal with choking
- Management of acute anaphylaxis
- Use of emergency equipment (oxygen, airway adjuncts and administering emergency drugs)
- Recognising and managing asthma attacks, diabetes, fainting, seizures and myocardial infarction.
During the three hours of training we were continuously assessed by the trainer and although it is of course, a very serious subject as you can see from the pictures we really enjoyed ourselves too! The trainer also reviewed our emergency drugs box and medical equipment and once the course was completed everyone got a certificate to mark their achievement. Hopefully we won’t every have to use any of the techniques we learned any time soon – but it is reassuring for our patients to know that they are in very safe hands and surrounded by qualified first aiders every time they visit the Welllesley!
