Posted by Chris on January 25, 2009
We’ve just gotten back from our last day of first aid training. This involved our written exam as well. We studied hard, and we all did very well. My wife and business partner got 98%, my friend and business partner got 98% and I also got 98%! What a coincidence!
And before you start thinking, no we did not copy each other’s work, all the incorrect answers were completely different on all our answer sheets!
Great! Now we feel comfortable being able to help people when we go on with our day to day lives, as well as when we’re out on 4×4 trails and camp sites with our business EC Offroad Adventures.
Dr Chris Meistre is in the house…..
Posted by Chris on January 24, 2009
Today marked the second last day before we’re officially finished and qualified as first aiders. All that is in our way is 2 more lessons and a written exam.
Last night we sat and studied the lessons of last week. What a way to spend a Friday night! Anyways, it was nice having someone to study with, as I think it made it a lot easier to get all the termonolgy and procedures into our brains. Having studied last night means tonight we just need to quickly go over it again, and also study what we’ve done today – most of which is really common sense.
We’ve all been deemed competent in all the practicals that we did, that included, among others, applying first aid for:
- fractured femur
- fractured wrist
- sprained ankle
- choking adult/child/infant
- performing CPR on adult/child/infant
Posted by Chris on January 20, 2009
So this past weekend we did our first 2 days of training for our Level 1 and 2 first aid course. The reason we need to do this is because later this month we will be doing a 4 wheel drive guide training course. This will enable us to be equipped to take people out on 4×4 tours.
None of us are used to sitting in a class all day being taught, so that in itself was an experience.
The very first thing we started with was Emergency Scene Management. This involves staying calm and checking around the scene to see what has happened. You determine the number of casualties and what happened to them. You then go on to get them into “stable” positions until medical help (ambulance, etc) arrives.
To get them into this stable position we’ve learned to treat with CPR, using abdominal thursts for choking and treating for shock. We learned about doing those for children, infants, adults as well as pregnant ladies. Then we moved onto treating burns, cuts and fractures.
What makes this course interesting a bit more exciting than just sitting in a class learning is that we actually practise the things practically as well, and get assessed thereon.