Some colleagues have been nominated to attend the Standard First Aid & CPR Course. They shared that this course has been fun and useful. I hesitated to sign up because there would be a test on theory and practical at the end of the course. If I fail, I have to re-test. Finally, together with a good colleague to accompany, we signed up for this course.
The training was held in a small room on the third floor of Red Cross House located at Penang Lane and our instructor was Mr D Toh. He looked serious and stern. But when the course started, the whole class of about 20 participants enjoyed his teaching very much. The participants came from all walks of life, some are school teachers, some are from Singapore Police Force, there was even a university lecturer who took time to attend this course.
We learnt some basic theory on first aid such as the three aims of First Aid:
Preserve life/save life
Prevent the condition from worsening
Promote recovery.
The most interesting would be the practical session on different ways or methods of bandaging on head or eye injury, dealing with choking etc.
The participants took turn to be the casualty and the First Aider.
We have quite a good laugh on the ways we bandaged on the injured part. We learnt using abdominal thrust and chest thrust to deal with choking.
Mr D Toh has demonstrated the CPR. We will learn to do it on a dummy tomorrow.
For more info, please see
http://www.firstaidtraining.com.sg/web/standard-first-aid.html
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