Doodle #144 : First Aid Day 2

Today marks Day 2, and the final day of the two day First Aid stint I had wrote about yesterday.

With that, it means another day of hauling my sorry ass outta bed before they were ready to part ways.

I arrived on campus to be greeted by this.


The second day of First Aid coincided with the Monash Open Day for this semester. I actually realized this awhile back. So I took some time to browse about the booths as they were setting up as I had arrived early.

Low and behold,


Heaven just parked in campus.

Got scammed by em -.- Is it just me or is EVERYTHING overpriced on events. Had to pay RM14.00 for something smaller than their usual "small" sized coffee. Which would have probably cost me somewhere within RM8-10 on a normal day. *regret*

Everybody (all of us) were gathered beside the truck, waiting. LOL.

Anyways.

Day 2 began then.

Kick staring the day, a whole session on Fractures, immobilizing joints + bandaging. Kinda like what we did yesterday but with a brace (in the spur of the moment, I forgot what you call that big chunk of wood you use to brace your broken leg to keep it from moving about too much as well as support it) added in.


Our speaker showing us how it's done.

Having put that into practice, we moved onto cramps as well as dislocations. Namely the jaw.

BUNNY TIE!


Devi got to play patient again. Hahah.

Of course, with all head bandaging, I somehow manage to find a way to bandage myself with apparent ease. It would seem that I've a knack for it. LOL. Managed to use the roller bandage too. Waiting for the pics to be uploaded by the seniors. Think it'll look hilarious. :D

Anyhow, the main event of the day was none other than...


CPR! The dummy's called Anne.


In fact, they came in a pair!

Compression, Airway, Breath. Just about sums it all up. Contrary to popular believe, almost everything you see on TV is FAKE. All the so called CPR / rescue methods are all exaggerated so much as opposed to reality. You'd be surprise just how much. One particular example would be the defibrillator. Yeah the things that doctors use and go "CLEAR" BZZTTT *patient flies upward and off bed* BUZZ. FAAAAAALSE. UTTERLY FALSE. You don't fly at all. You just. Lie there. As still as you came in. (the patient I mean)

Anywho..

Time for our hands on session.



BREATHE DAMMIT BREATHEEE. *puff puff*

Short lunch break then. Went down to browse the booths at full capacity. So yeah. Ran into Elaine, DX, and Aly today. Aly was so hyped up introducing me to people and saying hi to Mr. Mahesh (our former Chemistry tutor back in high school).

Time for the second half of the day.


Spinning (forgot the actual verb for this) the sticks about, you know, like those marching band things.

Coming back to the course, it was time for the session on Choking to begin.


Enter, Charlie.

So we were briefed on the steps to take in a choking situation, once more coming back to the Danger + Response module. Seems that no matter what the situation is, those are the 2 steps that everything has in common before deviating into their respective nature of emergencies.


We each took turns to perform CPR again while others tackled the choking dummy, literally.

Smacks + the Heimlich maneuver. Yeah.


LIVEEEEEEEE!! *pump pump pump*


*cough* smack smack cough.

That just about sums up the second half of the course. All that's left to do was to practice bandages again and skim through the theory notes.

Exam's coming soon. :)