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Limey1
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Joined: Sep 09, 2006
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Location: Enfield, North London
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Sat Dec 23, 2006 8:04 am |
 
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Your mate slips on rocks while fishing and sustains a very deep cut that is bleeding profusely. The result is, he goes into shock.......
Would you know what course of action to take if this happened to you?
The BBC has an online first aid course and here you can take a 'just for fun' test of your first aid knowledge and then take the full course if you want too.
I spent a number of years in the St John's Ambulance, but I was shocked to see how much first aid has changed, and just how many questions I got wrong.
My score was 70%....... Can you do better ?
Accidents while fishing can and do happen.
Follow this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/first_aid_action/getting_started_pg1.shtml |
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rocket
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Sat Dec 23, 2006 8:30 pm |
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60% thats sad and i did a full 1st aid course 4 years ago. |
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Limey1
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Joined: Sep 09, 2006
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Location: Enfield, North London
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Sun Dec 24, 2006 7:06 am |
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 Well it seems like out of 46 views on the first aid course only one (Rocket) appears to have done the test.
Come on then peoples, try the test and let us know your score.....
No Cheating............ |
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Edgey
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Sun Dec 24, 2006 7:35 am |
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Well it seems like out of 46 views on the first aid course only one (Rocket) appears to have done the test.
Come on then peoples, try the test and let us know your score.....
No Cheating............ |
Being an ex-copper and holder of a Royal Humane Society Commendation and having re-done my first aid every three years for fifteen years, but since leaving 18 years ago, I have not done any, I was shocked that I got only 60%.
It is amazing the changes that have taken place. |
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concrete
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Sun Dec 24, 2006 10:44 am |
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90%, only got the circulation one wrong and I've never done a first aid course.  |
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Limey1
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Joined: Sep 09, 2006
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Location: Enfield, North London
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Sun Dec 24, 2006 11:13 am |
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| 90%, only got the circulation one wrong and I've never done a first aid course. |
Beginners luck...... Just as you did at Devils Island...... :lol: :lol: :lol: |
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trueuk1
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Joined: Aug 24, 2006
Posts: 75
Location: durham
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Sun Dec 24, 2006 11:20 am |
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got 90% and my fisrt aid qual ran out 9 years ago never done any since i left the army
note to self
must try harder |
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VifferRider
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Joined: Sep 08, 2006
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Location: Northampton
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Sun Dec 24, 2006 3:39 pm |
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80%
most of it is common sense.
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Thom
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Joined: Dec 20, 2004
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Location: Keele, Staffordshire
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Sun Dec 24, 2006 8:15 pm |
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i got 70% but i do hate breathing into those dolls for training! |
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concrete
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| Beginners luck...... Just as you did at Devils Island...... |
A senior moment perhaps :lol: |
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PaulS
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Sun Dec 24, 2006 9:48 pm |
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80%, but i was watching calendar girls on the telly at the time!!
Have a great Xmas one & all |
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Big-G
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Joined: Mar 01, 2006
Posts: 68
Location: Southend on Sea
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Wed Dec 27, 2006 8:40 am |
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80% - fancy not taking a pulse to check for circulation, and my mother in law is a nurse in A&E and she would check the pulse too. oh well she's been qualified for over ten years now.
Any way, thanks limey, most educational I think i'll go and renew my Certificate ASAP.
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DuncBooth5
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Wed Dec 27, 2006 12:08 pm |
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70%. The heart attack questions a bit of an odd one. If you are an HSE first aider, you are told quite specifically that you do not under any circumstances administer drugs of any kind. We're first aiders, not paramedics! |
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Limey1
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Joined: Sep 09, 2006
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Location: Enfield, North London
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Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:34 pm |
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| 70%. The heart attack questions a bit of an odd one. If you are an HSE first aider, you are told quite specifically that you do not under any circumstances administer drugs of any kind. We're first aiders, not paramedics! |
Your on drugs "Dundee" :lol: :lol: :lol: |
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MadKev
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Joined: Dec 08, 2006
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Location: Southampton
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Thu Dec 28, 2006 5:36 pm |
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Yup, 90%. Hadn't got the carotid thing wrong in real life yet, didn't know it was current best practice. Mark you, returning to the original question, "What would you do?".
1. Aways go through their kit for mementoes of what was once a fine fisherman. He knows he'd never survive an arterial cut that bad this far from help, and I'm sure he'd want his stuff to go to a good home.
2. Triage Assessment - Try to get me thumb up his a**e, or tell him St John's have turned up. If he doesn't get up and run away from either of those then he's a goner anyway. Generally works at road accidents and pub fights: I find it combines the pragmatic with the practical.
3. Ask him if he wants me to pop round to let his widow know of her sad loss. None of me mates let me near their wives normally, dunno why. MK |
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