How to Stop a Nosebleed
Bloody noses are uncomfortable and scary-looking, but usually not dangerous. Kids get nosebleeds more often than adults, typically either from irritating the nasal membrane (picking their noses) or from trauma (like a soccer ball in the face). When adults get...
First Aid Kit Essentials
A first aid kit. Every home, office and car should have one. What are the main items you should always have on hand: CPR Faceshield: Performing CPR is so uncommon, it can be easy to overlook this addition to the first aid kits. Mouth to Mouth rescue breathing may not...
Emergency Oxygen is Vital to Survival
In Canada 35,000 to 45,000 people die of sudden cardiac arrest each year. For every one minute delay in providing oxygen, the survival rate of a cardiac arrest victim decreases by 7 to 10%. Oxygen is essential life, and supplemental oxygen is the most frequently used...
Emergency Oxygen is Vital to Survival
Oxygen is essential life, and supplemental oxygen is the most frequently used option to treat acutely ill and injured people. Emergency oxygen is used when a person experiences sudden injury or illness, whether it be cardiopulmary emergencies (heart attack or stroke),...
Staying Safe
Staying Safe Safety is an ongoing concern that must never leave your thoughts. There is a primal instinct in many people to dash to the rescue of those in need. Regardless of the dire circumstances of whatever terrible accident or injury you may witness, it's urgent...
Earthquake Risk Threatens Hundreds of B.C. Schools
We strap our children into car seats and boosters, we make sure they get their vaccines, we make them wear bike helmets...yet everyday we send them off to school into buildings that will not withstand an earthquake. In September a 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck deep...