Currently on a first aid course... I feel like I need first aid. I've hurt my hand. My knees. My hip. My back and I feel lightheaded from doing the CPR... This is awful

CPR is so brutal an exhausting

It really really is!

To add insult to injury, the packet of crisp I've brought for my dinner...has just fallen and spilled all over the floor.

I hate today

CPR can be a work out even to those who've done it before! it sucks to do it with any sort of body pain, but gosh, learning it is soooo important and you can save a life

when I took CPR I really wish they talked about how doing it right often means breaking ribs, since I know some people would freak out and stop at that point

yeah, you (general you) shouldn't be worrying about breaking ribs-- any secondary injury of cpr can be taken care of once the patient is resuscitated. most important thing for sure is their life !

N ᴇ ᴛ ʜ ◈◇◇ : for 20 years I worked with the elderly. CPR was always taught with the warning that it was always going to cause damage because they're so frail. It's a valuable thing to know though, that's for sure!

It's probably different if you're being trained with a career involving it, that's for sure

What they never told us that you could force stuff up... I've had stories of people doing CPR and forcing up weird fluids from lungs and nastiness. You can make a person throw up too

Most definitely yeah!

You learn for the job you're doing

last time I took my first aid course they did mention the little thingies you can get to do breathing without risk of getting vom in your mouth

but the main focus was on the AED machines, which was... ehh... especially since the places we would be working (it was for my aesthetics program) wouldn't have AEDs

Are the face coverings. Those are handy. The defibs though, I dunno about where you are, but over here there's a number you can call which will tell you the nearest one to you and how to get hold of it!

Which is info I never knew about until today. So I'm at least learning something lol

I'm in an area where I'm pretty sure an ambulance would arrive before an AED could

(got 3.5 hospitals a 5 min drive away from me)

/beams you over a tasty sandwich

N ᴇ ᴛ ʜ ◈◇◇ : yikes. That's...okay understandable really.

Xiu Ya Time : haha that would be lovely!