ZAP!
Training update, but not *that* kind of training, though that's going well too.
Today I got trained in how to shock people. A couple months ago, we got one of those fancy Automatic External Defibrilator units installed at work. Today was the training session in how to use it. I was one of the lucky volunteers for the training. Along with that AED, we also got certified in CPR.
Back when I was a teenager (in prehistoric times), I worked as a lifeguard at a summer camp in Wisconsin. As part of that we got CPR and First Responder certification. I haven't kept it up with refresher courses, so today was kinda interesting. A lot has changed in the past 15 years since I was taught CPR. The compression rate is much faster and everybody uses face/mouth shields.
The AED is a pretty cool little device. It's amazingly easy to use. Open it up, put on two electrodes, and stand back while it does the *ZAP*. We don't even have to press a button, it sends the shock on it's own.
All in all, despite loosing most of the day to the training, it was worth it. I got refreshed on my CPR training, and now I know a lot more about how the AED is used, which hopefully I'll never have to use, but am ready for it just in case.
Today I got trained in how to shock people. A couple months ago, we got one of those fancy Automatic External Defibrilator units installed at work. Today was the training session in how to use it. I was one of the lucky volunteers for the training. Along with that AED, we also got certified in CPR.
Back when I was a teenager (in prehistoric times), I worked as a lifeguard at a summer camp in Wisconsin. As part of that we got CPR and First Responder certification. I haven't kept it up with refresher courses, so today was kinda interesting. A lot has changed in the past 15 years since I was taught CPR. The compression rate is much faster and everybody uses face/mouth shields.
The AED is a pretty cool little device. It's amazingly easy to use. Open it up, put on two electrodes, and stand back while it does the *ZAP*. We don't even have to press a button, it sends the shock on it's own.
All in all, despite loosing most of the day to the training, it was worth it. I got refreshed on my CPR training, and now I know a lot more about how the AED is used, which hopefully I'll never have to use, but am ready for it just in case.
posted by Chris Parker at
12:14 PM
2 Comments:
Your teenage years weren't as much "prehistory" as you'd like to pretend, whippersnapper.
By
Sanford Owings, at 1:25 PM
Face/mouth shields?
Wish we had that during Phys Ed 12, the last time I took CPR. I was the only girl in that class.
By
Gail at Large, at 3:45 PM
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