Transferable Skills
As well as being a more than full time farmer our eldest son is a Community First Responder.
He's also a prolific Tweeter (on matters mostly, but not always, agricultural).
I know some of you view Social Media with great suspicion (apart from this forum of course) - so in case you don't want to risk the devil taking your soul, I've copied a series of Tweets from yesterday morning.
Luckiest calf alive! Born at 7am, smothered by its mothers bum at 9am. I dragged him out, his heart was pounding, but he wasn't breathing...
I could almost see his heart pumping through his lifeless coat, but no signs of air entry at all...
so I clamped his mouth closed, blocked one nostril and blew down the other, his chest rose, I blew again...
4 breaths in total, then he gasped and slowly began to breath by himself. I carefully sat him up and his mother came over to lick him!
I suppose I'm lucky that there's transferable skills in being a community first responder!
Comments
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First aid should be taught to everyone. Not just for cows . OH first aider when working and for football club. Whilst on our last trip in NZ, having lunch in a restaurant. A group if lads on table beside us. One lad starts what was a an epileptic fit,
two of hhis mates legged it (it was known that he suffered) but didn't admit at the time! restaurant staff no idea! Others suggesting sit him up....... OH went to assist all turned out well but ambulance called, that is chargeable, ?voluntary? contribution
first responders quick and good, ambulance unnecessary as it turned out. We had very reduced price meal. Surprised at lack of requirement/teaching for first aiders. He also involved with a fall in a cinema. As our daughter says 'he does find 'em'.0 -
Well done to your son Goldie. I feel that basic first aid should be taught in schools.
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Agree with all the comments, thanks Goldie! We have finally got defibrillators in our village, funds raised locally. It's worth knowing if you have a defib. nearby. Ours is by the shop and another by the pub. Anyway well done that son, what a lovely photo.
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Great stuff Goldie my remarks about social media on another thread are not aimed at all users! Some years ago someone jumped into the road in front of me - I think he meant to be run over by the lorry in front. The plod who attended prevented me from putting him in the recovery position. I saw him crumble onto the road spinalinjury was highly unlikely and without breathing he was a goner anyway. BBC. Breathing Bleeding and Consciousness in that order. Luckily the ambulance was very quick and he survived. But as my first aid certificate wasn't up to date the Plod wouldn't listen. We really should ALL learn the basics.
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.... BBC. Breathing Bleeding and Consciousness in that order. ...
I was taught .... ABC Airways, breathing and Circulation .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_(medicine)
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Great story, Goldie, and a super photo too. Thanks for sharing.
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Try this St John Ambulance
quiz, I got some wrong answers, shows how you can forget things.Good quiz. I got them all correct ?. Compression question was prompted by TV advert staying alive with Vinnie Jones . A lot to be said for advertising campaign
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Yes I agree good quizz. I got 5 out of 5 too. Many years ago I did a very very gentle Heimlich's on an infant. I am glad to say she survived but the rest of the party were completely headless at the time. But I wouldn't do it now of course. CPR has very
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Lovely photos Goldie. Well done to your son as well.
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Yes I agree good quizz. I got 5 out of 5 too. Many years ago I did a very very gentle Heimlich's on an infant. I am glad to say she survived but the rest of the party were completely headless at the time. But I wouldn't do it now of course. CPR has very different numbers now too.
yes, at our work refresher we were told that you should use the BeeGees' song Staying alive to get the number of presses. The instructor said you could also use Another one bites the dust by Queen, as it has the same beat (?) but she would advice against singing it out loud as it might upset passes by to see you singing this while doing CPR.
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I remember them singing 'Nellie The Elephant' on Casualty so it must be right.
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If ever I am taken ill, I hope that Pippah is around as she appears to know more than most.
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I remember them singing 'Nellie The Elephant' on Casualty so it must be right.
Fame at last!!
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yes, at our work refresher we were told that you should use the BeeGees' song
Staying alive to get the number of presses. The instructor said you could also use
Another one bites the dust by Queen, as it has the same beat (?) but she would advice against singing it out loud as it might upset passes by to see you singing this while doing CPR."Staying Alive" does seem more appropriate.
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If ever I am taken ill, I hope that Pippah is around as she appears to know more than most.
Write your comments here...I think we all hope there will be someone there who knows what they are doing. It's never too late to learn. Me and exhusband fell off his horse, silly slow motion stuff and someone in authority said put him in my land roverr and I will drive him to hospital. Luckily someone braver than me said NO get the ambulance. He had 2 crushed vertebrae and would very likely have been paralysed by the land rover trip.
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That was supposed to read - opportunity for MORE people to do first aid courses you never know when you might need it.
My sister-in-law has taught all sorts of physically & mentally impaired kids over the years and so has done various first aid courses. Many years ago when my daughter was about 3, she had a sweet in her mouth and slipped resulting in the sweet starting to
choke her. SiS was closest & took hold of our daughter & whacked her across her back ..... no sweet ...nothing! She got another whck across her back. The sweet shot across the room. As well as the first aid course, keeping a level head in a panic situtation
saved the day & our daughter, who is now 27
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Couple of Aussie blokes sitting at a bar. In comes attractive lady who orders a drink and starts nibbling a few peanuts. One gets stuck in her throat and she starts to choke. One of the blokes hops off his bar stool, pulls down the lady's skirt and runs
his tongue across the top of her buttocks. So shocked is she, that the offending peanut is spat across the room. Bloke resumes his place on the bar stool and his mate says " I've heard of the hind lick manouvre but I ain't never seen it done".0
