Ahead of the Mount Isa Show the Queensland Ambulance Service is gearing up for a busy period of community engagement.
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There will be a raft of free life-saving CPR awareness sessions available for the public during the Show and beyond.
Mount Isa QAS, along with the Local Ambulance Committee is encouraging people to get involved in learning the life-saving skill.
Mount Isa Station Officer-in-Charge Paige Harris said their stand at the Mount Isa Show would launch their public campaign.
“We’ll have paramedics on site and we want the community to come down down for some CPR awareness activities and get some pointers from the paramedics,” Ms Harris said.
“We’re hoping to create a resilient community that is able to good at effective CPR that helps with our survival rates of out of hospital cardiac arrest numbers.”
Ms Harris said the intention was that when the paramedics arrived on the scene of the emergency, the patient had a lot better chance of survival.
“Time matters and effective CPR after a cardiac arrest has proving to help with outcomes,” she said.
As well as learning some good CPR skills from paramedics, visitors to the Mount Isa Show stall can talk to Mount Isa Local Ambulance Committee president Ian Hussey and fellow committee members who will be selling first aid kits.
Mr Hussey said they were looking for volunteers to join the committee.
“We are looking for members to help us throughout the year,” Mr Hussey said.
“We liaise with community organisations to get these kind of (QAS) events to their location and we also raise money to help send paramedics on courses that isn’t in the budget.”
The Mount Isa show is on Friday and Saturday at Buchanan Park.