St. Johns First Aid Workshop

St. Johns First Aid Workshop

This day today, the amazing Room 8 got to do a First Aid Workshop. Yay!! What we did first was walk to the library, entered the library and sat down in a half circle shape. This was so that the St. John person that was teaching us could see everyone. What we did first once we had sat done was the lady introduced herself as Katherine. Katherine handed out little cards that had how to do CPR on one side and a First Aid Guide on the other.

We got straight into it after that. She started talking about what you do if somebody is unconscious and how to help them. When someone is unconscious, all of your muscles suddenly will go into floppy mode including your tongue. 
So, if your trying to help somebody that is unconscious and one their back, the first thing you do is constantly tapping them in the collarbone and asking "Can you hear me?" or "Are you listening" or something similar to check that they are not sleeping. If they don't respond by looking at you or talking back, you must put two fingers on their chin and the other hand on their forehead and you tilt their head back. If you don't do this, their tongue would fall back and cover their airway which allows you to suffocate. Once you have done this you then must bring the arm closest to you up to their head bend the farthest knee away from from up wards. Place your hand on the bent up knee and your other hand on their shoulder farthest away from you and pull them onto their side. Then, the leg you hand bent and the shoulder you had, put them out in front of them so they don't laid on their stomach. Once again, tilt their head back so they can breathe and then you can run for help. This position is so that if they vomit, they won't suffocate themselves yet they can still breathe. We then paired up and tried this on each other.

The next thing she taught us was how to help someone who had cut their artery or vein. What you do is you immediately put pressure on with a clean hand. If you have cut a vein, blood will come out in little waves where if you have cut your artery, blood can squirt out up to two meters. If you have a first aid kit with you, get out a dressing pad or something similar. Switch from using your hand to the pad.  Next you want to put a bandage or the cut yet keeping on the pad. When rolling on the bandage make sure you go a little bit up from the cut and a little down so that the blood doesn't drizzle down or up from the cut. Once you have rolled on the bandage, make sure you can get two fingers under the bandage. If you can't get two under its too tight and you have to redo it. Too tight and your hand can go purple. Too loose and the bandage won't do anything. If the blood seeps through the bandage yet it's not loose, just put on another bandage or apply pressure. We then paired up and tried this on each other. (Without the cut!)

To finish off the hour and a half session, Katherine showed us most things that are in a first aid kit. Getting into teams on three, we looked at the objects for a minute then wrote as many down as you could remember. Our team got 16 out of 17 tieing first equal!
The workshop was very fun, thank you Katherine.