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First Aid and Basic Medicine | Tuesday | Period Two
Another Tuesday, another session of first aid class. Today, class was meeting outside under a tent, which some might call generous on the teacher's part. Bruce just thought it was good to provide maximum possible distractions to make sure the students could focus on the task at hand.
"The final is next week, and we've covered quite a bit of ground so far," Bruce said, swinging his arms loosely once everyone had arrived. "We did basic and advanced bandaging, burns, and tourniquets. Today is our last real class session, so I want to spend it on CPR."
Sounded fun, right?
"CPR stands for cardiopulmonary resuscitation," Bruce began, "and it is used in cases of choking or drowning -- really, any circumstance where someone is having extreme respiratory difficulty. A good indicator to clue you in that you should use it would be if someone is turning blue or gesturing to their throat and can't speak. Please ask the person if they're okay before starting anything; there's always the chance that the person is just ignoring you or making a weird expression or... yeah."
He scratched his neck. That had gotten off-topic.
"Assuming CPR is necessary, after making sure the surroundings are safe and checking to make sure the victim is not breathing by putting your ear to their nose and mouth and listening for breaths or coughs, you want to lay the person flat on his or her back, place the heel of your palm right here--" he gestured on himself to just below his breastbone-- "lay your other hand over the bottom one, and apply thirty short, fast compressions, one after another. You'll have dummies to practice on today -- I know you're all excited for that." The dummies were creepy. He understood that. "After thirty compressions, hold open the victim's mouth and breathe in twice while pinching his or her nose. If that doesn't work, repeat the compressions. The rescue breathing is optional, and please don't do it on the dummies, but the compressions are the important part. You want to be pressing down about two inches and compressing rapidly. Today, the dummies are programmed to light up and buzz if you aren't compressing correctly, so try to avoid that. It'll be... loud and annoying to everyone else."
He gave a sheepish little... sort of a neck-twitch.
"When there are ten minutes left, we'll segue into discussing the final and you're welcome to ask any questions you might have about it," Bruce added. "It will be a practical exam set in the Danger Shop, so be prepared for that."
"The final is next week, and we've covered quite a bit of ground so far," Bruce said, swinging his arms loosely once everyone had arrived. "We did basic and advanced bandaging, burns, and tourniquets. Today is our last real class session, so I want to spend it on CPR."
Sounded fun, right?
"CPR stands for cardiopulmonary resuscitation," Bruce began, "and it is used in cases of choking or drowning -- really, any circumstance where someone is having extreme respiratory difficulty. A good indicator to clue you in that you should use it would be if someone is turning blue or gesturing to their throat and can't speak. Please ask the person if they're okay before starting anything; there's always the chance that the person is just ignoring you or making a weird expression or... yeah."
He scratched his neck. That had gotten off-topic.
"Assuming CPR is necessary, after making sure the surroundings are safe and checking to make sure the victim is not breathing by putting your ear to their nose and mouth and listening for breaths or coughs, you want to lay the person flat on his or her back, place the heel of your palm right here--" he gestured on himself to just below his breastbone-- "lay your other hand over the bottom one, and apply thirty short, fast compressions, one after another. You'll have dummies to practice on today -- I know you're all excited for that." The dummies were creepy. He understood that. "After thirty compressions, hold open the victim's mouth and breathe in twice while pinching his or her nose. If that doesn't work, repeat the compressions. The rescue breathing is optional, and please don't do it on the dummies, but the compressions are the important part. You want to be pressing down about two inches and compressing rapidly. Today, the dummies are programmed to light up and buzz if you aren't compressing correctly, so try to avoid that. It'll be... loud and annoying to everyone else."
He gave a sheepish little... sort of a neck-twitch.
"When there are ten minutes left, we'll segue into discussing the final and you're welcome to ask any questions you might have about it," Bruce added. "It will be a practical exam set in the Danger Shop, so be prepared for that."
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who had the same issue as RillaListen to Bruce
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Well. Breathe into each other's mouths if you really want to. God, what a creepy pick-up line.
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... Or else Evan was just that determined to get it right. He'd paid close attention to the lecture, and after some of Dr. McCoy's classes at the Jean Grey School (there had been a field trip to inside the janitor), this was actually a piece of cake.
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...Sholeh tried not to be too grumpy about that.
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Look, maybe Fandom grades didn't count for much in the real world, but Evan hadn't grown up in the real world, and they mattered to him.
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...He decided not to think about how if he had missed class in high school because of turning into an animal, he would have been extremely cranky about it. Because nerd.
"We've mostly covered the things I mentioned at the beginning of class, so bandaging, tourniquets, and burns. I can probably get you a handout on anything you missed if you stop by my office hours."
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"A handout would be really helpful," he admitted, perking up a bit. "Even just a list of things... I work in the library, so finding study materials isn't difficult."
He'd probably just start on one end of a first-aid manual... and then keep going. Through three or four tomes. Maybe work his way into more complicated stuff from there...
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Yeah, there was even a little bit of excited bouncing going on, there.
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