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First Aid 2: First Aider, Friday, Period 3
Don did not have enough clothes for this. His cargo pants had at least one mysterious stain on them and he was, here at the end of his wardrobe rope, wearing a shirt obtained from Anakin's Wednesday madness last summer, and eyeing Thor's corresponding side of the closet thoughtfully.
He was still drinking coffee, even though he recognized it as a dangerous endeavor at this point, especially when you were already a little on the wobbly side. He didn't care. Coffee was what was getting him through this. He did set the coffee down when his students came in, though.
"Good afternoon! I'm pretty sure we've all already met, but I'm Dr. Don Blake--actually a practicing surgeon now, or I will be as soon as the last of my paperwork goes through at Johns Hopkins on the mainland--and this is First Aid. Or, uh...what the moose named it." Thanks, moose. "Since you've all been through at least one first aid class before, this can be a little bit more review or a little bit more in-depth, depending on what you think would be most helpful. You might even get to hear some of my rants about healing powers." He was a surgeon from Manhattan, of course he had more than one, depending on whether you were healing yourself or somebody else. "I will spare you my rants about insurance companies as irrelevant to this class." Also, those had way more curse words in them.
He went to clap his hands together, realized he was still holding his walking stick, and set that aside. "Okay! Let's talk about raising the dead." He held up a device. "This is a portable defibrillator. Thanks to Tony Stark, some of you may own one of these. For the rest of you, these can be found in some public buildings and businesses. We're gonna go over how and when to use those, because I don't want any of you electrocuting yourselves. The good news is, they make these things fairly idiot-proof, because a lot of people don't handle crisis well. So the device has a voice that's going to tell you what to do when, and the pads are labeled with where to put them on the victim--in this case, our CPR dummy."
Don used his walking stick for support as he lowered himself to the floor beside said dummy, because his knee didn't like that very much today. "Now, because it's all automated, you can continue doing chest compressions or rescue breathing in between shocks, but--this is very important--when the machine says 'Clear' you need to get clear or you will get shocked too. Your heart is working just fine and you want to keep it that way.
"And while we're already down here with the CPR dummies, let's talk about CPR. I would recommend you take a Red Cross class and get properly certified, but knowing the basics is better than not knowing anything, so. Let's go. First you're going to check whether the person is responsive, and if they're not, you're going to call 911 or designate another person to call 911. Don't say, 'Somebody call 911,' because again, a lot of people are bad in a crisis. Pick a person and tell that specific person to call 911. And, of course, if you're somewhere without 911 insert appropriate emergency services here. If they're not breathing, you need to make sure the airway is clear, and then if they're still not breathing, you're going to need to do rescue breathing."
"So. Chest compressions and rescue breathing. Here's how it works." Don proceeded to demonstrate on the dummy. "If you do it right, you might break your patient's ribs, but that's fine. Broken ribs suck, but they're better than being dead. A common tip is to do chest compressions to the beat of Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees." Don played the song on his phone. "Which definitely works. There are some other songs that work, too. If you've seen someone do CPR in a movie or show, the victim probably woke up after about a minute, yay, the CPR worked. That's not how it goes in real life. Once you start CPR you don't get to stop until the paramedics arrive to take over, you can verify breathing and heartbeat have restabilized on their own, or you can't do it any more.
"Now let's move on to something you're more likely to have a use for in real life, or at least I hope none of you have to give CPR any time soon...the Heimlich maneuver, used when someone is choking." Don demonstrated how it went, then said, "And now that we've done this review, you can practice your skills on the dummies as you see fit. How's that sound?" He looked down at his shirt and realized he had somehow gotten something on it while he was demonstrating. "Odin's beard."
He was still drinking coffee, even though he recognized it as a dangerous endeavor at this point, especially when you were already a little on the wobbly side. He didn't care. Coffee was what was getting him through this. He did set the coffee down when his students came in, though.
"Good afternoon! I'm pretty sure we've all already met, but I'm Dr. Don Blake--actually a practicing surgeon now, or I will be as soon as the last of my paperwork goes through at Johns Hopkins on the mainland--and this is First Aid. Or, uh...what the moose named it." Thanks, moose. "Since you've all been through at least one first aid class before, this can be a little bit more review or a little bit more in-depth, depending on what you think would be most helpful. You might even get to hear some of my rants about healing powers." He was a surgeon from Manhattan, of course he had more than one, depending on whether you were healing yourself or somebody else. "I will spare you my rants about insurance companies as irrelevant to this class." Also, those had way more curse words in them.
He went to clap his hands together, realized he was still holding his walking stick, and set that aside. "Okay! Let's talk about raising the dead." He held up a device. "This is a portable defibrillator. Thanks to Tony Stark, some of you may own one of these. For the rest of you, these can be found in some public buildings and businesses. We're gonna go over how and when to use those, because I don't want any of you electrocuting yourselves. The good news is, they make these things fairly idiot-proof, because a lot of people don't handle crisis well. So the device has a voice that's going to tell you what to do when, and the pads are labeled with where to put them on the victim--in this case, our CPR dummy."
Don used his walking stick for support as he lowered himself to the floor beside said dummy, because his knee didn't like that very much today. "Now, because it's all automated, you can continue doing chest compressions or rescue breathing in between shocks, but--this is very important--when the machine says 'Clear' you need to get clear or you will get shocked too. Your heart is working just fine and you want to keep it that way.
"And while we're already down here with the CPR dummies, let's talk about CPR. I would recommend you take a Red Cross class and get properly certified, but knowing the basics is better than not knowing anything, so. Let's go. First you're going to check whether the person is responsive, and if they're not, you're going to call 911 or designate another person to call 911. Don't say, 'Somebody call 911,' because again, a lot of people are bad in a crisis. Pick a person and tell that specific person to call 911. And, of course, if you're somewhere without 911 insert appropriate emergency services here. If they're not breathing, you need to make sure the airway is clear, and then if they're still not breathing, you're going to need to do rescue breathing."
"So. Chest compressions and rescue breathing. Here's how it works." Don proceeded to demonstrate on the dummy. "If you do it right, you might break your patient's ribs, but that's fine. Broken ribs suck, but they're better than being dead. A common tip is to do chest compressions to the beat of Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees." Don played the song on his phone. "Which definitely works. There are some other songs that work, too. If you've seen someone do CPR in a movie or show, the victim probably woke up after about a minute, yay, the CPR worked. That's not how it goes in real life. Once you start CPR you don't get to stop until the paramedics arrive to take over, you can verify breathing and heartbeat have restabilized on their own, or you can't do it any more.
"Now let's move on to something you're more likely to have a use for in real life, or at least I hope none of you have to give CPR any time soon...the Heimlich maneuver, used when someone is choking." Don demonstrated how it went, then said, "And now that we've done this review, you can practice your skills on the dummies as you see fit. How's that sound?" He looked down at his shirt and realized he had somehow gotten something on it while he was demonstrating. "Odin's beard."
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