First Aid Corps

We have been asked a few times already, from the United States of America all the way to Poland, so we feel it is timely for us to present to you what it takes to create a chapter in your community.

Our movement is to create concepts and tools to simplify saving lives. Studies have shown that even though CPR has been around for 50 years, survival rates in most cities are still dismal.

Our current concept is to divide the population into persona of heroes who are comfortable contributing to the chain of survival according to their personal preference, thus we have the Seeker, Shocker and Pumper personas.

The tools that we have created are simple to use. If we have tools for fighting wars better, we can surely do the same in our fight against premature cardiac death.

We are also involved in projects that deploy AEDs into residential areas as a community effort ( not as individual families ), because we feel that this area is lagging behind the public deployments.

We also conduct street demos and hands-on workshops in the street, never in classrooms, because we want to maximise exposure to the public on the use of AEDs with CPR. We locate these activities near to public AED deployment site, so that we teach the public to use our tools to locate the AEDs. These we ususlly conduct once a month or two. We do not conduct paid CPR and/or AED classes because as said above, after 50 years of CPR classes, the results are not satisfactory. What we have been and are still doing, is not achieving the best result that we will like to see.

We like the chapters to be autonomous, and to collaborate with each other so that all chapters nudge their communities to adopt the same concepts and tools. All believers of our movement must obey the 3 Laws.

The chapters should preferably be registered in their communities as charitable organisations, have their own constitution and obey their community laws, although they can seek advice from us. Fundraising can be carried out for the projects and activities. Our founding chapter does not have paid staff, and is totally volunteer-runned, but we leave up to the other chapters to run the way they see fit.

We believe in complementing current teachings and concepts on CPR and the use of AED. We also work closely with other non-profits, charities and organisations on our concepts and our tools.

So if you will like to know more, please contact us at cocreate (at) firstaidcorps.org.

These are the latest revisions to the badge designs. The only difference between them is the design of the fonts. Please help us to decide which is a better design of the two. Email to us at cocreate (at) firstaidcorps.org with your comments. Thanks!

We have chosen, based on feedback that Set 2 is the preferred design for our Hero Badge. The different sets are shown HERE. However, we need to decide on a better action figure for the Shocker design. The set on the right is the revised design. Please help us by giving feedback on what your thoughts are.

Please let us know which set of designs your prefer to cocreate(at)firstaidcorps.org.
If you have designs to contribute, please send them to us too!

Design by Nazmul Kabir, from Desired Design.

The definitions of Seeker, Pumper and Shocker can be found HERE

Some of the feedback given..

“For the graphical icons in the center of the badges, the seeker and the pumper make sense to me intuitively, but the shocker does have the same impact. I prefer the layout of set 2 — the typography adjusting in size to the space seems more interesting and attention getting, plus somehow it reminds me of a heartbeat.” Don F.

“i like set two the best.” Joshua W.

“I agree with Don that the “Shocker” badge is not quite right. I think the reason is that each of the other badges show a person taking action… they associate the stick figure with the name of the badge. Whereas the Shocker badge is less active – it doesn’t have the “actor” in it.” Benjamin R.

Have you even wondered why, when you’re watching a baseball game and your favourite player strikes out in the top of the ninth inning, you cringe – or alternately, why, when your home team scores a goal or a touchdown, you pump your arm in the air? Or why, when you’re at the movies and the heroine starts weeping, tears well up in your own eyes? Or the feeling of grace and beauty that floods through you as you observe a ballet dancer or listen to a world-class pianist?

When we watch someone do something, whether it’s scoring a penalty kick r playing a perfect arpeggio on a STeinway grand piano, our brains react as if we were actually performing these activities ourselves. In short, it’s as tough seeing and doing are one and the same.

This is due to mirror neurons at work in our brains.

This is why First Aid Corps organise CPR+AED “flash mobs”, not only to educate the public on the importance of CPR and the use of the AED, but also to get all others who have been trained in CPR before to revise in their minds.

Here are some photos that were taken at our first event in Singapore.

Anyone interested to do the same elsewhere?