St Johns

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S.C

• 5-10 Facts
• Photos / Videos
• Describe
• Toolkit
• Reflection :  I thought . . . I felt . . . I know . . . 

Here is the card that St Johns gave us and we all had one. I has all the things David, the ambulance officer, told us, that we need to know about first aid.

• Danger: You need to check if there are any people around that could hurt you, can you see anything that could hurt you, smell anything (like gas) or if there are any dogs. If a person is lying on the ground and the dog sees you trying to help the person, he might think that you're hurting the person.
• Response: You ask them (but not over their face because otherwise they might get a fright). You see if they are awake by tapping them on their shoulder, and asking them "Can you hear me?"
• Send for help: You point to a person and say "Call 111, this person is not responding/waking up and come straight back (so that you know help is on the way).
• Airway: You put two fingers under the chin and one hand on the forehead, then tilt their head back slowly and softly. Check in their mouth to see if any food (like KFC) is left in their throat. Are there any teeth missing? Is there any blood in their mouth? If you see anything, pull it out and put it on their chest.
• Breathing: You put your cheek above their mouth and look at their stomach to see if it's going up, down, up, down. If they are breathing you need to put them on their side. Put on arm flat on the ground, lift one arm on to their chest and bend their other leg. From the opposite side of the knee and elbow, gently pull them over so that they are lying on their side. This means that if they puke they won't drown in it. If you get puke in your lungs, that is what can make you drown.
• Commence CPR: If they are not breathing their heart isn't working. CPR is when you get your not-writing hand and hold on to it with your writing hand. You find the middle of the persons chest from their armpit and start pushing up and down with your arms straight, using the bottom of your palm to pump the blood through the body to make the brain work.
• Defibrillation: we couldn't do this because it uses a machine that shocks people's hearts.

The things from HES toolkit that will help you save someones life are:
We have a can do attitude
We turn a problem into a solution
We ask questions
We are developing citizenship

Reflection:
I thought it was funny and not funny at the same time. It was funny because the mannequins looked creepy and David told a story about a tunnel in bush and the patient was on the other side of the tunnel and they had to walk in the dark because they did not have a torch. He also he also had a freaky pinkie that could do sit-ups. The part you have to take seriously is learning how to do CPR.

I felt proud because I could do it!


Have you learnt CPR before?