First Aid

I went for a First Aid/ Basic Life Support course in OTI (Madinat Al A3lam). My boss came to me in a sudden and was like you start your course tomorrow and its for 3 days. The course was to help ppl have the needed skills and knowledge to perform emergency first aid support in the first few minutes after a life-threatening incident occurs. Sadly the course I took was only focusing on adults and not babies (below 1year old) and kids (of +1 year old – 9 years old).

It covered good theoretical & practical elements in it, how to do the Breath Rescue, CPR and positioning the victim in the recovery position. It also explains the right way to support internal and external injuries + some1 in shock and a lot of other stuff.

After taking this course i really believe that everyone should actually take this course or at least should have one or two members of the house take this course. I’ve seen lots of accidents, being to lots of trips and helped lots of injured ppl. I was shocked to know everything I did before that was wrong. Wither it was a friend that got injured playing football, someone in shock after a small car accident or someone that fell of the steps, what I did to help him/her was wrong but I’m glad to know that I now know what to do the next time such things happen.

The course only costs 65 R.O for every indaviual which I think is a pretty reasonable price. The course was from 8-4 with a one hour break for three days, and now I’m a certified First Aid madri shoo esamuna.

In early 1900s a scientist defined shock as “a state when a body dies temporary”. Now they say that when the body or human is in shock, the blood cells in a humans body dies due to lack of oxygen therefore the mind sends the wrong signal/commands to the body. We usually give water to ppl in shock thinking it will cool them down, by doing that we might damage the persons body since we don’t know where the water will end up.

The course covered the below illnesses:

· Anaphylaxis

· Animal bites

· Black eye

· Blisters

· Bruise

· Burns

· Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)

· Chemical burns

· Chemical splash in the eye

· Chest pain

· Choking

· Corneal abrasion (scratch)

· Cuts and scrapes

· Dislocation

· Electrical burns

· Electrical shock

· Fainting

· Fever

· Food-borne illness

· Foreign object in the ear

· Foreign object in the eye

· Foreign object in the nose

· Foreign object in the skin

· Foreign object inhaled

· Foreign object swallowed

· Fractures (broken bones)

· Frostbite

· Gastroenteritis

· Head pain

· Head trauma

· Heart attack

· Heat cramps

· Heat exhaustion

· Heatstroke

· Human bites

· Hypothermia

· Insect bites and stings

· Motion sickness

· Nosebleeds

· Poisoning

· Puncture wounds

· Severe bleeding

· Shock

· Snakebites

· Spider bites

· Spinal injury

· Sprain

· Stroke

· Sunburn

· Tick bites

· Tooth loss

· Toothache