18/06/2026
π What if the person needing CPR was your daughter, wife, sister, mum or best friend?
Research shows women are less likely to receive life-saving CPR from bystanders than men.
As a mother of two daughters, that's a statistic I find incredibly worrying.
If someone is in cardiac arrest, please don't let embarrassment or uncertainty stop you from helping. CPR is performed exactly the same way on women, and a defibrillator can only work if the pads are placed correctly on bare skin.
I've shared my thoughts in our latest blog and why this is a conversation we have openly on all our First Aid courses.
Because every life matters. β€οΈ
Read more here:
https://www.ertraining.co.uk/post/cpr-on-women
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As the Director of ER Training, I've spent years teaching and developing courses to teach people how to save lives.We've trained hundreds of workplace first aiders and members of the public over the past 2 decades. I know that when an emergency happens, that most people genuinely want to help.But th...