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This news page or blog is a collection of resources on current best practice, opinions and advice from our students, expert articles and current thinking in first aid and paramedic practice. We discuss professional guidelines, practices, tips and tricks, Continuing Professional Development (CPD) as well as have a bit of fun and a light-hearted look at our human experience.
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Date : 21/11/2017
How do I become a paramedic? Paramedic training is great but if it doesn’t end in a job then, I agree with you, what was the point. You can spend a lot of money learning to become a paramedic and just be poorer at the end of it. A diploma in Paramedic science...
Date : 27/10/2017
Parents First Aid Course Choking managementOur mums and parents first aid course or our free “what to do until the ambulance arrives” teaches new parents, mums and dads some important lifesaving skills about how to deal with kids in an emergency. Choking...
Date : 04/09/2017
Shark Attack First Aid Treatment Pack Shark attack first aid treatment and training is a frequent topic at International Paramedic College local first aid classes we run on the northern rivers of NSW. We are based in the Ballina, Evans Head Byron Bay corridor that has...
Date : 29/08/2017
First Aid Back Blows for Choking Get gravity on your side The first aid treatment for choking is serious. Every parent should understand that one of the ways kids learn is by feeling touching and of course putting small things in their mouths. Their small...
Date : 22/06/2017
CRAIG NOLAN The CAT Tourniquet fits the recently released guidelines issued by the Australian Resuscitation Council for the use of military style tourniquets in life threatening arterial bleeding. Do the Maths – You need to help yourself, not wait for help Do the...
Date : 16/03/2017
Snake Bite First Aid and the Setopress bandage The Setopress Bandage – A practical approach to diagnosis and Snakebite first aid Snakebite first aid treatment – What to do if you are bitten by a Snake? Snakebite first aid treatment was published in a clinical...
Date : 12/01/2017
Paramedic Education How to Become a Paramedic I have a love for education and adult learning, but I needed to grow up to grow into it. The excesses and exuberance of my youth had left a young man with a strong ambition but lacking guidance, support and in need of...
Date : 07/11/2016
Survival medicine guidelines – 10 lifesaving first aid skills What lifesaving first aid or remote survival medicine skills, remote first aid or essential first aid skills are necessary for those who want to be medically prepared for any disaster or emergency event...
Date : 10/07/2016
Paramedic Clinical Skills, Law and Ethics are a firm base on which to build a Paramedic career. Seldom is a subject so misunderstood and full of misinformation in public first aid courses and pre-hospital emergency care, so I will try to cover a range of issues that...
Date : 17/05/2016
Free Online Learning Module for CPD on Kids Burns As I keep saying, the emergency treatment of kids is different, they are not smaller adults. Kids skin burns deeper, quicker and at lower temperatures than adult skin. Not only that but burns from scalds can cause...
Date : 10/05/2016
Anaphylaxis and Epi-pen Free TrainingDo your staff at your Childcare centre school or your community group need Continuing Professional Development (CPD) or just to brush up on some skills and feel more confident about anaphylaxis management.If you are interested the...
Date : 03/05/2016
First Aid Class Lismore Ballina Byron Bay Answers for Questions A question was raised about burns treatment in a First aid class in Lismore recently. Australian burns specialist Fiona Woods recently had a few words to say in the Perth Sunday Times on how first aid can...
Date : 21/04/2016
Batman V Bull The “Darwin Awards” pay tribute to the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally remove themselves from it. In this series of posts we will look at some potential award winners. Voting for the winner will be by the most likes or...
Date : 19/04/2016
Free Local Courses and Online Resources I understand it’s your child and your freaking out about the situation but controlling your duress responses is vital. Somebody has to do something and today that person is you. If your child stopped breathing today would you...
Date : 05/04/2016
Paramedic Recognition of Traumatic Brain Injury The “Darwin Awards” pay tribute to the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally remove themselves from it. In this series of posts we will look at some potential award winners. Here we...
Date : 31/03/2016
The “Israeli” or Emergency Bandage to Control Serious BleedingThe Emergency Bandage or Israeli bandage is a great product to help in the over 40 per cent of trauma-related deaths occur in the first 24 hours following an injury due to massive blood...
Date : 22/03/2016
Kids Choking management Back Blows or Blow Backs, the kids of comedy have a series of baby sitting bloopers. This is a bit of fun produced by the kids. Rated KD (kind of Dumb). Subscribe to our Youtube channel at International Paramedic College Youtube Channel ...
Date : 02/01/2016
Christmas Accidents1000 people receive injuries from their Christmas treeCareful of the Christmas, danger in your lurking in your lounge room and that fridge tooJust when you thought I had survived all my over indulgences this festive season I read that in a British...
Date : 29/12/2015
military quality tourniquet are great at controlling bleeding in the field Shark Attack Immediate Treatment Treating the arterial bleeding from shark bites needs a tourniquet. Like lots of things that paramedics, first responders or first aiders, come across in...
Date : 21/12/2015
Shark Attacks in Ballina Lennox Head Evans Head and Byron Bay Shark Smart Living Teaching first aid, emergency medicine and prehospital care on the far north coast of NSW, or the northern rivers as it is sometimes called, I am often asked about shark bites or attacks....
Mullumbimby First Aid Courses HLTAID003 $158.00 
Stop Arterial Bleeding – Advanced Bleeding Workshop $29.00 
Online Course PUAEME005 Provide pain management $98.00 
Provide an Emergency First Aid Response in an Education and Care Setting – Alstonville HLTAID004 $188.00 
Replacement Certificate-Print/Post reissue $24.00 
Ballina Byron Advanced Resuscitation Course HLTAID007 $158.00 
Byron Bay CPR Courses HLTAID001 $78.00 
