The Times They Are A-Changin'
Jun. 15th, 2004 03:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsJust went through CPR training for work. The first time I did CPR training was in Girl Scouts, I think - sometime in the 70s. I don't really remember the circumstances. I do remember the attitude from everyone, including the trainer, that only the weenies wanted to wipe resuciAnne's mouth with alcohol before being the next person to use her.
They don't even have alcohol wipes anymore. Now it's multiple dummies with multiple faces (and funky it is to be handed a plastic face and have to attach it to the flayed plastic skull!) AND breathing barriers.
It's overkill, but far more sensible than heaping scorn on people who know the basics of disease transmission, which was not a closed book in the 70s.
And our instructer is an ambulance driver, which meant that the rather dry class was peppered with some really interesting personal stories. "If they are breathing, they have a pulse. I don't want to arrive at the scene and discover that the victim is coaching you on how to do CPR on them. Yes, that did happen."
They don't even have alcohol wipes anymore. Now it's multiple dummies with multiple faces (and funky it is to be handed a plastic face and have to attach it to the flayed plastic skull!) AND breathing barriers.
It's overkill, but far more sensible than heaping scorn on people who know the basics of disease transmission, which was not a closed book in the 70s.
And our instructer is an ambulance driver, which meant that the rather dry class was peppered with some really interesting personal stories. "If they are breathing, they have a pulse. I don't want to arrive at the scene and discover that the victim is coaching you on how to do CPR on them. Yes, that did happen."
