As I told you before, I'm stationed in a satelite pharmacy and for the past two weeks I was actually shifted to another satelite pharmacy that covers 10 wards and 4 specialist clinics. It was undeniably hectic and coping up was an uphill climb. You really have to pick up all the new things real fast but unfortunately I'm a slow one hehehe
Here in HQE, the employees are encouraged to attend the CPR course and I just received my certification as a rescuer last week. The course was really neat. Not only that I got to learn lots of new things especially in life-saving and emergency aids, I also met a lot of interesting people with lots of awesome experience in life-saving. Their hearts are made of gold~
Well let me share with you a bit about the CPR thingy. Well, the main idea of CPR course for the hospital employees is to enable the staffs to attend patient whenever there's a sudden collapse during any business in the hospital. The main steps of CPR is theoretically easy to remember but I later found it to be a bit confusing during the practical session. But after a few practices, I finally picked up (^^) The acronym would be DRC ABC~
D-->>Danger
Before attending an unconscious person, we must first look for danger. Look what is it in the surrounding that could lead to the collapse of the person. For instance, is there a life wire there?? Is there any poisonous animal like snakes??
R-->> Response
If the surrounding is safe, check for response. You may shake the person's body, or pat the shoulder while asking "sir sir, are you ok?"
C-->> Call for help
If there's no response, call for help. While waiting for help to come, you may perform what is necessary
A-->> Airway
Firstly, do head tilt and chin lift and check the person's breathing.
How to check?? We must listen, feel and see.
How is that done?? Put your ear at an appropriate distance in front of the person's mouth while your face facing the person's body. Listen and feel the air with your ear and look at the chest whether there's any movement or not. If you can't hear and feel air or/and can't see any chest rise that's when you start your rescuing duty!!!
B-->> Breath
When you found there's no breathing, the first thing to do is to blow two rescue breaths. The interval between the two breaths is 1 second. Check for chest rise when you do the blow. If there's no chest rise, reposition the person's 'head tilt and chin lift" and blow again. Check for breathing after that. If no breathing, check for pulse. If no pulse that's when you move to...
C-->>Chest compression
The basic principle for chest compression is push hard, fast and allow chest to fully recoil. There are 30 chest compressions per cycle. After chest compression, we are to give two air blow into the person's mouth. This should be done in 5 cycles and once you finish 5 cycles, you are to check the pulse and breathing again.
No pulse-->> give another CPR
Have pulse, no breathing-->> give blow for two minutes. One blow in every 5 seconds..
Once the pulse and breathing is present
Keep the patient warm, reassess the condition every 2 minutes and put the patient in a recoveyr position~
That's it!! Seems easy.. but the course will test you on one man CPR, 2 men CPR, baby CPR, baby choking and adult choking and I got mixed up a little bit. But it's really interesting, you know. You'll get a certificate that'll be valid for 5 years. And owh yeah~ we were actually introduced to the Automated external defibillator too and was taught how to operate it and was also taught on how to insert airtubes into unconscious patient hehe co0l!
10 comments:
wow!
Automated external defibrillator --> nak sangat operate bende alah ni!! hee..
heee. so far je dah 3 kali kitorang ada short-course benda alah ni, dan 3x jugaklah jumlah aku igt, dan lupa benda yang aku bljr ni. heeee
come to think of it.
wud u do cpr to a homeless guy struggling for his life?
do pay attention to the word 'homeless' ;)
mar, tu la.. cm co0l je AED tuh.. :P
Ruffey.. aku hrp aku x lupa.. ko jgn lupaeh~ ko kan kna wt cpr slalu hehe
Pah.. of coz la cm geli2.. tpi aku suda kasi prepare face shield ni dlm beg ku hahaha semangat kn??? \(^^)/ yosh!!!
harap2 ndak la. hehe
ari tu cpr 1 jam lebih sama kawan aku, ada patient dgn gcs 3, tapi doctor suruh kami buat jak dulu, sebab tunggu keluarga patient sampai hospital utk inform consent kalau patient tu teda harapan.
gila penat 1 badan. tapi di hospital kan, so monitor pakai monitor yg attach dgn AED so buleh tau heart rate brp. lepas tu artificial breathing kasi pakai pump saje. hehee
ya bha~ gilak tuh kalo ko mo bg mouth to mouth hehe tpi cmlengoh tgn jgk tu kn mem pam kalo tlampau byk :P
gg, cpt wat cpr utk jepah!!! hahaha
servis cpr berbayar ye jepah hehe tpi kne no breathing n no pulse dulu la :P
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