First Aid with St John

 W.A.L.T. understand how to act in a emergency.

Today Paula came in from St. John to teach us about DRSABCD.

Which stands for: 

D- Danger

R- Response

S- Send for Help

A- Airway

B- Breathing

C- C.P.R 

D- Defib

In a situation this is what you do.

1. Look for danger, smell for danger and listen for danger. Smell for toxic gases or others, look out for cars and dangerous things.

2. Check to see if they are responsive by using the back of your palm and banging there collar bone calling at them asking if they are responsive.

3. Not responding, call 111. Accidentally called 911, it is okay. It will just take longer to transfer the call.

4. Using two hands tilt the patients head backwards. To help clear their airways. One hand on the forehead and another under the chin. Push up gently. We do this so that your tongue does not cover your airways.

5. Now check their breathing. No need for checking the pulse. Put your ear on there mouth and another on there chest. Look straight down there chest to see your hand moving up and down. If they are breathing, roll them on their side. By, your knees up against their side, move aside their arm. Pull up their leg so that their foot touches the under part of the thigh. Then by grabbing their shoulder and upright knee pull them over onto their side. Then flatten their leg and knee and make sure they aren't looking at the ceiling.

6. Doing C.P.R. is a lot harder then meets the eye. You have to put your knuckles around the fingers on the other hand. Then compressing the songs like baby shark and row row row your boat. Put your hands in the squeezed finger position and go up and down. Not bouncing on them, not leaning on your heels, and not with massive gaps in between pushes along with no rock star hair flips. With doing adult C.P.R. use 2 hands. Child requires 1 hand and a baby 2 fingers.

7. A defib is what you need if dealing with C.P.R. This is a vital thing. It shocks the person if there is no heart beat found. The defib will instruct you on where to place the pads on the person with a picture. Also the defib tells you if shocking is necessary. If a heart beat is found the shock is unneeded.

Today we also learnt how to wrap a bandage, I was Paula's volunteer. We had to put a spongey pad type thing on our arms and then a buddy would wrap it, then we would swap.

We also took turns giving C.P.R. to mannequins. Then did some with a buddy taking turns on one.