Training Parents, Saving Lives

We set up Training Parents, Saving Lives to help teach parents basic life support skills. Our first two sessions sold out in minutes but, like many things, COVID-19 put paid to any more face to face sessions.

In the New Year we are thinking about delivering something similar via Microsoft Teams but wanted to see if people would be in interested in learning basic life support of children via this method.

Over to you - interested or not??

Advice if your child suffers a burn - Dr Ian Lewins

Useful advice on what to do if your child burns themselves.

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Please, please stay in.

We have been keeping a constant review of the situation with regards to the current coronavirus outbreak and have today made the decision to CANCEL our event in March. Everyone who bought tickets have been emailed to inform them .

We hope you understand our decision.

Our next planed event is for the 21st April but we will be reviewing this as the days pass.

Many apologies for any inconvenience.

Episode 37: Ibuprofen and Chickenpox

We are looking forward to out next sold out session on the 24th. In the meantime we will use this page to post useful resources. Firstly, here's a podcast we did discussing whether or not we can or should use ibuprofen for children with chickenpox. Its taken from our departmental podcast, "2 Paeds In a Pod".

https://bit.ly/2VJ3qvM

Episode 37: Ibuprofen and Chickenpox I've always liked Bob Rogers' description of Facebook as "an educational cul-de-sac." So when horrific descriptions of what happens when you give a child with chickenpox a dose of ibuprofen emerged on

And like that...the tickets are gone.

Training Parents - Saving Lives

We only have TWO free tickets left...

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/training-parents-saving-lives-tickets-97435250457

Training Parents - Saving Lives Bought to you by a team of expert doctors and nurses based in the Children's Emergency Department in Derby, this FREE workshop aims to help parents and carers learn basic life support skills including what to do if your child is choking or stops breathing. In addition we will also be giving advice o...

Training Parents - Saving Lives

Our next FREE life support training event on the 24th March is now open. Click here for tickets:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/training-parents-saving-lives-tickets-97435250457

Training Parents - Saving Lives Bought to you by a team of expert doctors and nurses based in the Children's Emergency Department in Derby, this FREE workshop aims to help parents and carers learn basic life support skills including what to do if your child is choking or stops breathing. In addition we will also be giving advice o...

‪Tickets for our next free ‘Training Parents Saving Lives’ event on the 24th March will go on sale tomorrow evening at 7:30pm. ‬

‪Tickets will appear on Eventbrite with link to appear here and on our Twitter page. ‬

A quick reminder to anyone who came to our first ever session last week, please fill in our short feedback survey to help us continue to improve our sessions. This would be very much appreciated.

Link here to survey: https://forms.gle/en2aefHdfn5uF4Nj9

HANDi Paediatric

We'll plan to post links to useful information sites over the coming weeks to support our Life Support courses. Firstly, can we point you in the direction of the HANDi Paediatric app which is free to download and contains useful local information. Download and select 'Derby and Derbyshire' as the Trust and it will give you advice on when and where to contact health professionals for the area.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/handi-paediatric/id969445171

HANDi Paediatric

...and the ‘choking child’ flow chart.

As promised - here is the Basic Life Support flow chart we used on the course.

⭐️Our next ‘Training Parents, Saving Lives’ course will be held on Tuesday 24th March. Ticket details to follow soon.⭐️

St John Ambulance The Chokeables advert: save a choking baby - Extended version

Welcome to the page of the 'Training Parents, Saving Lives' course run by the team from the Children's Emergency Department in Derby.

Thanks to everyone who came to our first ever session yesterday. We will be posting information and resources here as well as on our Twitter page ().

As promised here's the link for The Chokables advert produced by the St John's Ambulance team

https://youtu.be/fpOxPAMWQX8

St John Ambulance The Chokeables advert: save a choking baby - Extended version Find out how to save a choking baby with – the new advert from St John Ambulance. Pen lid, marble, princess and jelly baby have had enough of ...

Training Parents, Saving Lives updated their website address.

Training Parents, Saving Lives updated their website address.

Training Parents, Saving Lives updated their business hours.

Training Parents, Saving Lives updated their business hours.