Driving Theory Test To Include Cpr First Aid Questions

People sitting their driving mentation trial will soon request to swot up connected life-saving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skills, nan UK's Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has decided.

All roadworthy users are being encouraged to study nan basics and cognize really to usage a defibrillator successful an emergency.

It's hoped nan questions, which will beryllium added to nan car and motorcycle mentation trial successful early 2026, could forestall avoidable deaths.

Drivers are often first connected nan segment erstwhile personification suffers a cardiac arrest, says nan DVSA.

Adding nan accusation into nan charismatic learning materials intends that nan 2.4 cardinal learner drivers who return their mentation trial each twelvemonth will person a amended knowing of nan skills to usage successful an emergency, it says.

Learning materials person already been updated pinch nan caller content, including questions specified arsenic "Who tin usage a nationalist entree defibrillator?" - nan reply being "everyone".

A defibrillator gives a jolt of power to nan heart, which tin thief get it beating normally.

The devices are designed to beryllium user-friendly, pinch clear instructions.

If CPR is fixed and a defibrillator utilized wrong nan first minutes of collapse, endurance rates could beryllium arsenic precocious arsenic 70%, grounds suggests. Without it, less than 1 successful 10 survive.

If personification is unconscious and not breathing normally, telephone 999 and commencement CPR consecutive away.

This tin beryllium "hands-only" CPR to present timely thorax compressions to get humor pumping.

One of nan caller mentation trial questions is astir nan correct extent to push down.

To transportation retired a thorax compression, nan NHS advises:

• kneel adjacent to nan personification and spot nan bottommost of your manus connected nan breastbone astatine nan centre of their chest. Place nan thenar of your different manus connected apical of nan manus that's connected their thorax and interlock your fingers
• position yourself truthful your shoulders are straight supra your hands
• using your assemblage weight (not conscionable your arms), property consecutive down by 5 to 6cm (2 to 2.5 inches) connected their chest
• keeping your hands connected their chest, merchandise nan compression and let their thorax to return to its original position
• repeat these compressions astatine a complaint of 100 to 120 times a infinitesimal until an ambulance arrives aliases for arsenic agelong arsenic you can

James Cant, main executive of Resuscitation Council UK, said: "We're delighted to beryllium moving pinch nan DVSA and different partners to present CPR and defibrillator consciousness into nan driving mentation test.

"By embedding these life-saving skills into specified a wide taken assessment, we tin thief guarantee that much people, from each communities, summation nan knowledge and assurance to enactment during a cardiac arrest."