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Have you ever given first aid to anyone?
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Watching Eastenders I was reminded of the first aid course I recently went on for work.
Has anyone found themselves in the position where they've had to give first aid and how did it turn out?
I've just had to give people eye washes so far.
Has anyone found themselves in the position where they've had to give first aid and how did it turn out?
I've just had to give people eye washes so far.
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Thankfully I've not had to do anything more serious than that.
I did surprise myself in not panicking as I expected, my mother was most impressed
I've gone to the aid of a couple of road accident victims, but I did nothing more than keep them warm and quite until the ambulance arrived.
How diverse. Working in first aid, and then taking a break to work in a mobile phone company as admin support:p
P.S. What is BLS:o
Basic Life Support.
Then a bloke ran across shouting "i'm a first aider, let me through!"; picked up her head and gave it a good shake :eek:
She was starting to come round when we were all chucked out of the club.
Plus we'd just done it at school, so.
Mainly have to deal with bandaging up people who have slips and trips.
Have had to deal with a serious asthma attack, a couple of diabetic suctomers going into shock.
Had to deal with a comatosed drunk woman who fell and hit her head and was out for the count.
Had a man who cut hiself and then feinted at the sight of his blood.
Had one guy who collapsed and fell unconcious, later turned out he hadn't eaten in over a week.
Had a colleague who thought that it would be fun to jump down the stairs and ended up cutting their head open.
The worst one I think was a colleague that tried managed to put a kinfe THROUGH their hand.
Unfortunately being a first aider where I work aslo means that you get to deal with body fluid incidents, so cleaning up vomit, piss, shite and blood. You wouldn't believe how many people are sick on the floor of or piss themselves in Sainsbury's!
Similar thing happened to me and my wife in the cafe in Tesco. This older chap was having an epileptic fit and we didn't know what to do. The staff were useless, luckily one of the customers was first aid trained.
Bit of a wake up call really, I would like to know what to do in that situation.
I learned how to perform a tracheotomy when I was 10. I know how to help deliver a baby. I know how to give CPR/BSL. I know how to work a defibrilator. I know mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
I've never had to use any of it, but it's good to know I can.
Plus, the whole tracheotomy thing was a fabulous threat to use on my little brother.
Yes, a couple of times, all ended well.
I think first aid should be taught in schools!
it sort of is...
well at my school maybe a year ago some people came in and gave us basic first aid training. it was an activity for the first week of term because the school hadn't got round to sorting out our timetables.
we also learnt how to write a cv
I also have a brownie badge in first aid... doesn't count for much but I can actually remember a lot of what we did for that and it was very similar to what we did that time at school.
not had to use any of it yet though.
Not if you work for the AA, no.
noone else was in house, and her dog was barking, so i got my dad and he told me to ring the police and ambulance
she was lying next to a table so i thought maybe she had fell onto it and banged her head
turned out the dosy woman had too much to drink on her own, and passed out on the floor - like what!!!
i felt soooo stupid but i did get £10 gift voucher for marks and spencers from her husband (who wasn;t in at the time) because of my actions lol