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A question..... [message #39710]

Tue, 05 December 2006 19:24

marc

Needs to get a life!

Registered: March 2003
Messages: 4729

How many here have gone out and taken the Red Cross Course for First Aid???

Do you think it is an important thing to do???

How many think it is not important because someone else (where ever) surely has done the course???

[Updated on: Tue, 05 December 2006 19:26]

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Re: A question..... [message #39711 is a reply to message #39710]

Tue, 05 December 2006 19:34

timmy

Has no life at all

Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13800

Many years ago I took the Royal Life Saving Society's gold award in resuscitation because it was part of my qualification to teach kids to sail.

I tried to use it at a car crash, but found that theory and practice were woefully separated.

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

Re: A question..... [message #39714 is a reply to message #39711]

Tue, 05 December 2006 19:48

dyllbrad

Toe is in the water

Registered: December 2006
Messages: 34

id be affraid to attempt to actually do first aid not in case i screwed up but of being sewed if or should some one decied to

dyll's jac's cousin brad is my boyfriend...

so wat if i kissed another boy in class and got caught

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Re: A question..... [message #39719 is a reply to message #39710]

Tue, 05 December 2006 20:28

Deeej

Needs to get a life!

Location: Berkshire, UK
Registered: March 2005
Messages: 3281

I certainly ought to. I feel slightly guilty for not having done a course of that nature. My younger brother has.

I am lucky to have two doctors for parents. Of course, they won't always be there, but I will admit that they have made me feel a little less obligation to get first aid training. When we went to Zimbabwe my father took some surgical tools with him in case one of us had an accident and there were no guaranteed safe supplies (especially of blood).

David

Re: A question..... [message #39720 is a reply to message #39710]

Tue, 05 December 2006 20:33

Navyone

Likes it here

Location: USA
Registered: February 2006
Messages: 116

When I was 17, I attended the American Red Cross National Aquatic School. It was two weeks of freezing your balls off. It was held at a camp on a lake in Pennsylvania. BRRRRRRRRR.

When finished I was a certified Emergency First Aid Instructor, Water Safety Instructor (Life Guard, Swimming Instructor) and Small Craft handling Instructor.

All of that was very helpful in the Navy. After I got out of the Navy I taught Emergency First Aid for over 30 years. As a member of the Baldwin Fire Department, I worked in the field administrating First Aid for over 30 years. I eventually became an Emergency Medical Technician and then an advanced Emergency Medical Technician.

I think that everyone should have at the very least, basic First Aid Instruction. The younger the better.

All you have to do is contact your local American Red Cross or your Countries equivalent and they will tell you where courses are available. You may also find them available through your local School District Adult Education Department.

A short course in Emergency First Aid could save your life or a loved one’s life.

In the United States you are protected from being sued for administering Emergency First Aid. Unless you willfully do the wrong thing.

Gary

[Updated on: Tue, 05 December 2006 20:37]

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