Fist aid app

[PreppingPingu]

http://www.sja.org.uk/sja/first-aid-adv ... d-app.aspx is a link to an app that those of you with smart phones might like to download (its free btw.) Being prepared is also knowing where to get knowledge quickly. Yes its basic first aid but you never know when it may be useful.

[hobo]

Thanks! Downloaded.

[Yorkshire Andy]

worth knowing that if you are in a situation and there is something bad enough to warrant an ambulance the 999 controller will talk you through what to do


(whether you like it or not in one case when i stopped to help at a accident despite saying i was a first aider at work and had just done my yearly refresher she was like a primary school teacher with a flow chart and i "had to follow her instructions"

( all ready did all the stuff she wanted before i made the phone call) )

[redskies]

worth knowing that if you are in a situation and there is something bad enough to warrant an ambulance the 999 controller will talk you through what to do


(whether you like it or not in one case when i stopped to help at a accident despite saying i was a first aider at work and had just done my yearly refresher she was like a primary school teacher with a flow chart and i "had to follow her instructions"

( all ready did all the stuff she wanted before i made the phone call) )

Having been on the other side of the phone, the system was called ORCUS, dunno if they have a new one these days, this was about fifteen years ago.

When you get a call, the operator gives you the number, which you verify in case you lose the connection, and then it asks you three questions

Age

Breathing

Conscious

If you give a no to two, it flips you straight into instructions for CPR. If someone is giving birth, it flips you to instructions for that (I've delivered a baby over the phone, it was ... interesting), and so on. If say yes to two, it moves on to bleeding etc etc and can take you to instructions to deal with that as well.

Pretty much everything you can imagine (even police dog bites) is covered by the system, and you have to follow it; if you deviate, you're in the sort of official trouble that can end in written warnings.

The system is designed to, in the end, categorise calls; if you (as some people do) know the right answers to give, you can end up with cat A blues & twos response every single time. You won't get that if you've slipped down the stairs and broken your arm.



I know it's annoying, but the guy/gal on the other end of the phone is doing what they've been trained to do - and what they have to do. They've got to go through it and there are very, very few exceptions to that. They're the sort of exceptions that result in sentences such as ''alive people have more head than that - where do I do the breaths?''

[Deeps]

I was expecting something, um, slightly different when I read the thread title, this forum is getting a bit 'peculiar' of late.......

Imagine my relief when I realised it was more of a medical thing, phew.

[redskies]

Just a thought about this app and all the others out there. I picked up this link - https://uscrow.org/2016/02/02/top-10-pr ... ign=buffer - via a prepper place on FB the other day. I went and had a look at the apps, but decided not to download them. Reason? A lot of those apps want permissions I'm not comfortable with. Things like contacts, location, identity, access to media files, control of camera & microphone etc.

Whilst such things might be useful in a day to day sort of way, I'm not comfortable with apps having such a range of information. And given the way the various alphabet stew agencies on both sides of the pond gain access to information, I don't think I want to advertise that I think about such things - we operate mainly in cash because what we buy and use is our business and no one elses.

[featherstick]

I was expecting something, um, slightly different when I read the thread title, this forum is getting a bit 'peculiar' of late.......

Imagine my relief when I realised it was more of a medical thing, phew.

Fart-finger typing...