Thursday, February 11th, 2010 at 8:51 pm
Myth: You can stop fits/seizures by putting a metal object in the victim’s hand
Truth: You cannot stop fits/seizures without medication. Traditional practices like the myth above have not been conclusively proven to work. In fact, you can endanger the victim by forcing his clenched fist open to put the key in it.
A much better and more effective first aid treatment would be to turn the victim to the recovery position, clear the surroundings and call the emergency ambulance service.
Saufee
Training Manager
Singapore First Aid Training Centre
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 at 10:44 pm
Eversince I finished my National Service, I have been called upon on quite a few occasions where my first aid skills came into actual public use. I was a military paramedic.
My first public call was right about 2 years later, when I was having coffee with a bunch of my friends at a coffee shop neaby home. It was during that time amid our chit chat that we heard a loud bang. I turned around to see what the commotion was, and in a split second, I ran towards where the loud bang occured. A motorcycle rider had just collided with a car.
It was a pretty sad story though (but he lived). He had just dropped off a friend about 30 metres from where the accident happened. Right after that, as he rode off, a black car made an illegal U-turn, cutting off the rider’s route, thus causing an accident which he was thrown off from his bike, about 5 metres away.
I reacted upon my paramedic training by the time I arrived, checking the ABCs, and he’s fine. But because this is a road traffic accident, by all means I can’t move him. All I could do was to ensure that he was fine and talking to me all these while.
It was during the process that I realized how people’s intentions to help could mean death to the rider. A couple of guys wanted to remove his helmet, which I told them not to. Being the only first aider on the scene, I told them that I was and they respected me for what I’m trained for and left me to aiding the rider, and helping me cordone off passing vehicles so as to not clog up the traffic on the road. 2 minutes later, an auntie even offered some water to the rider, but I told her not to, as doing so could cause him to choke.
When the ambulance arrived, I was relieved that proper help was finally at hand to assist and tend to the injured rider.
If I wasn’t there, the rider wouldn’t have received proper initial aid. And this could have been potentially fatal to him.
Raihan
Marketing Exec
Singapore First Aid Training Centre
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 at 10:45 pm
Ola!
Shape Magazine is an active lifestyle magazine for women and they are due to feature an article on First Aid in their upcoming issue in March. With constant pursuing and follow ups, I managed to have a confirmation from their side to allow us to spread the knowledge of First Aid to their readers. As the tongue in cheek saying goes, “There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.” Now that would be my win for the first working week of 2010 !
Nesa
Program Executive
Singapore First Aid Training Centre
