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Oct. 20th, 2008 04:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deird_ljThis morning I did a course in CPR.
I am now certified* in rolling people into recovery positions, clearing vomit/food/dentures/etc out of their mouths, whacking their chests in medically-approved ways to keep their blood flowing, and using defibrillators (the new non-doctor friendly variety that have really helpful diagrams, and voice activation to tell you what to do next: "ATTACH THE LEFT PAD", "STEP AWAY FROM THE PATIENT SO THAT YOU DON'T GET ELECTROCUTED", "CONTINUE CPR", and so forth).
Apparently the rules of CPR change quite regularly. Our instructor made a point of telling us all the things that were different compared to CPR three years ago, and all the stuff that might be changing once our medicine catches up with Japan.
From what he said, it looks like we now think the guidelines from 10 years ago got a lot of stuff wrong - and now we think that the people in the 70s might have been right all along...
*ie, I have a little piece of paper saying that I can
I am now certified* in rolling people into recovery positions, clearing vomit/food/dentures/etc out of their mouths, whacking their chests in medically-approved ways to keep their blood flowing, and using defibrillators (the new non-doctor friendly variety that have really helpful diagrams, and voice activation to tell you what to do next: "ATTACH THE LEFT PAD", "STEP AWAY FROM THE PATIENT SO THAT YOU DON'T GET ELECTROCUTED", "CONTINUE CPR", and so forth).
Apparently the rules of CPR change quite regularly. Our instructor made a point of telling us all the things that were different compared to CPR three years ago, and all the stuff that might be changing once our medicine catches up with Japan.
From what he said, it looks like we now think the guidelines from 10 years ago got a lot of stuff wrong - and now we think that the people in the 70s might have been right all along...
*ie, I have a little piece of paper saying that I can
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Date: 2008-10-20 10:29 pm (UTC)Public Service gets lots of this kind of stuff for free. It's great.