President Christine Farquhar welcomed 43 members and 1 visitor to our March meeting. Jo, Judith , and Valerie were thanked for being tea/coffee hostesses and Mandy was thanked for lovely Spring flower arrangement.
The record of the last meeting was approved and signed. Matters arising – volunteers are needed for helping with the refreshments and a list of meeting dates was circulated for members to sign up for this.
The Treasurer presented to Budget for the coming year, which was approved by the member
After coffee/tea and cake we welcomed two members of the St John Ambulance, Lee Goodman who is also a paramedic in the NHS and Sarah Carrick who spoke to us about using a Defibrillator and CPR.
Lee started by explaining, with the use of diagrams, how the heart works and how a heart attack affects the various parts of the heart. Lee said that he would welcome questions and members took up his offer.
Lee then moved on to CPR, and he and Sarah demonstrated this using models. He then moved to the Defibrillator and showed us a “live” one and one used for demonstration purposes. He and Sarah then showed us how to use both CPR and the Defibrillator to help anyone having a cardiac arrest.
The statistics show that prompt action is needed to help those in need. At the end of the talk members gave Lee and Sarah a spontaneous round of applause.
Carol gave the vote of thanks and there was more applause from the members. This was an interesting and helpful talk.
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