Tameside Hospital Lead Resuscitation Officer Geoff Pogson demonstrated the hands-only CPR technique to patients, visitors and school children
Tameside Hospital offers CPR lessons as part of Wear Read Day
Tameside Hospital’s Lead Resuscitation Officer Geoff Pogson taught potentially life-saving CPR techniques as part of National Wear Red Day on Friday, 24 February 2012.
Haughton Vale staff on Wear Red Day
Thornley House staff, managers and doctors with patients and Geoff Pogson, Resuscitation Officer, Tameside Hospital Foundation Trust
Geoff Pogson teaching the “Hands-only CPR” technique
Patients, college students and Haughton Thornley Patient Participation Group learning Basic Life Support together with Geoff Pogson
College students practicing opening the airway
Patients learning with college students “Hands-only CPR”
Cleaning out the mouth before starting “Hands-only CPR”
Members of Haughton Thornley Patient Participation Group watch and learn “Hands-only CPR”
Using a defibrillator to kick-start the heart
Bringing it altogether with “Hands-only CPR” as well as using a defibrillator under the watchful eye of Geoff Pogson, Resuscitation Officer, Tameside Hospital Foundation Trust
Babies and young children under 8 usually arrest due to lack of oxygen and hence need mouth to mouth resuscitation
You can press with 2 fingers on a baby’s chest wall during resuscitation
Thornley House staff, managers and doctors with patients and Geoff Pogson, Resuscitation Officer, Tameside Hospital Foundation Trust
2 minute video showing how to do “Hands-only CPR”
Click here to watch a VIDEO of the event describing in more detail what to do if confronted by somebody who is unconscious and not breathing.
With thanks to Geoff Pogson, Haughton Thornley Patient Participation Group, Patients, Students, Haughton Thornley staff and Resusci-Annie and Resusci-Baby – all of whom went home safely after a good days work!
If you would like further information about activities held by Haughton Thornley Patient Participation Group then please send an email to [email protected].