This is a list of stories/questions that have occurred/ been asked during my CPR Classes
I was teaching a CPR class once for a couple with 3 young children (the youngest having her first birthday the night before.) So we are sitting here learning how to effectively deliver compressions to an unconscious victim, when the doorbell rang. My students looked at each other in shock, asking "who can that be?" Well it turns out that their good friends did not show up last night for the party, thinking it was tonight. Talk about being fashionably late!
I taught a class recently for a student who was going to nursing school. She was explaining to me how she was a lifeguard growing up, and she frequently was required to give CPR to drowning victims. She then went on to explain to me that "back in the day" they didn't use PPE, and instead just did mouth to mouth on her victims. To get just a tad more graphic, she explained to me that she knew that her breaths to compressions transition speed was very slow, because she was the only one that ever got vomit in her mouth from her patients. GREAT REASON to invest $7 in a mask I think!
These are various questions and comments that I have been asked in classes (Unfortunately the students were not kidding)
- "Can you perform CPR on yourself?"
- "If an ambulance is racing to an accident and hits a pedestrian along the way. Does the ambulance have to stop?"
- "Talking about the importance of PPE (personal protective equipment) let’s say that we don't have our barriers in our pocket, what is the effectiveness of using a Ziploc bag without holes in it?"
- "Do people click in real life? Can I make one?"
- "I just do not understand why you cannot use an AED (automated external defibrillator) in a pool."
- "Will the patient feel it when you rip the pads (and all the hair) off his chest?"
- "So we won't be doing mouth to manikin? Too bad. Well at least I brushed my teeth"
- Okay so background on this one: I was teaching a huge class (like 15 people) and he was the one student who arrived 20 minutes late. We made fun of him, so he had to "lighten the mood" a little.
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