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REC 3
kmck:
Ours had the AED as an optional extra
Nuala:
--- Quote from: Karen on November 10, 2011, 19:15:21 ---That said it's a fantastic course teaching you lots of handy skills and give you much more confidences in difficult situations on rivers, mountains, where ever.
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Yes - not meaning to persuade people off it, just making sure you know what it is.
caz:
Also I know it's really confusing but there are two different awarding bodies called REC one is Remote Emergency Care which is what myself, Nuala etc did three years ago with Joe O'Gorman and the other is Rescue Emergency Care which I did a few weeks ago with Barry Redmond and includes an AED cert. Both are recognized by the ICU for instructor qualifications but only one (I think rescue) is recognized outside of Ireland. Head wrecking I know.
There is also a REC 2 which is a bit shorter and cheaper but still very comprehensive and I'd recommend this to anyone who wants a first aid but doesn't see themselves becoming a L3 instructor in the next three years.
Karen:
Huh, I didn't know there were two different, which is recognised outside our little island? The one we did?
kmck:
Rescue Emergency Care (REC) is a well known and respected first aid training organisation founded in the mid 1980s by Dr Robert Phillips while working in remote healthcare and adventure rescue services. I think the rescue one is international as well
Reading the remote one is also accredited by the royal college of surgeons scotland. One to check out.
Wilderness first responder.
Then there is the WEMT and then wilderness physician.
It might be worth talking to Micheal O Donell to just do a basic CPR course for everyone in college.
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