Scouts in Action - Hurry up cardiac emergency (MI)

[RememberSchiff]

Asthmatic scout rushes to retrieve AED while nurse administers CPR. 

 

Edited yesterday at 02:06 PM by RememberSchiff

[RememberSchiff]

My scouts have had some interesting discussions during CPR/AED training. Some examples:

1. Treat the patient but also control the response/scene. For example, you have surveyed patient and safely initiated CPR. There are other people there. You have told someone to call 911. Ask if anyone is knows CPR, form a line to relieve me. I need people to fetch AED. I need someone to direct EMTs here.  I need people to help carry patient...Have someone start Timer on their phone. ... Training kicks in and so does thinking.

2. Where are the AEDs in populated? Some older scouts who have visited college campuses often ask this. Where are the signs? One scout mentioned a locator app - PulsePoint AED

3. Can I do Heimlich on my dog?

No doubt more ideas and questions are coming.

[RememberSchiff]

A historical note, Dr. Peter Safar is regarded as the father of CPR , particularly mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Since 2008?, Hands-only-CPR is the more common response.

Back in the late 1950's and early 1960's, Dr. Peter Safar, an Austrian anesthesiologist, "validated the effectiveness of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, Dr. Safar ran an intriguing experiment. He anesthetized and medically paralyzed healthy volunteers, monitoring their vital signs as he tested various ventilation techniques prevalent during that time. After demonstrating that the accepted techniques were ineffective, he introduced the new technique of mouth-to-mouth breathing. To further highlight its simplicity, he filmed a young Boy Scout administering mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on a larger man."

 

More at Source:

https://www.ems-history.com/post/dr-peter-safar-discovering-mouth-to-mouth

Edited 6 hours ago by RememberSchiff