St Johns first aid.

On the 3rd of september Ruma Tahi of Karoro School did a first aid course with a St Johns officer
called Catherine Allen. First she went over the DRSABCD.

D for danger. Check for danger. R for response. Check the patient for a response.
S for help. Send someone to get help or call for help. A for airways. Tilt the head back and lift chin.
B for breathing. Check that the patient is breathing.

If the patient is breathing do not commence step C or D. If the patient is not breathing go to C.
CPR. Put your hands on their chest and do 30 compressions. After this breathe twice into their mouth.
Repeat. D is for defibrillation. Someone should have grabbed a defibrillator by now.
This machine has instructions to use it. Use it to jumpstart people's hearts.

First cut open the patients clothes. Then set up the defibrillator and press shock.
Don’t be alarmed if the person shakes. Then we had to practice CPR on dummies
to the beat of Stayin Alive.

At the end we all got certificates saying we had passed the course. In my opinion what
we learnt was life saving and even though everyone was a bit embarrassed about doing
CPR on a dummy we all listened and didn’t muck about.

I personally liked the session because it was a great reminder of something I haven’t done in a long time.