WOP course (Part 2)

Week 2

The second week we join Tromar EMS for our First Aid Level 1 training. It consisted of 3 days of theory, a little practical and a practical test on the third day.  The photos of previous injuries were gruesome and some of the people complained that it was too explicit but I found it overwhelmingly interesting.  I have so much more respect for paramedics and doctors, staying calm and not freaking out over a wound and having to fix it at the same time, is a lot more difficult that one would expect.  After the 3 days, I could do CPR, help a person that's choking and keep the person from bleeding out before actual paramedics can take over and get the person fixed up.  The most important thing to remember, H.H.H.,Hazards, Hallo, Help, we learned about different types of wounds and how each one should be treated differently.  On the Thursday of the 2nd week, the students did a fire prevention training, which I could not be apart of for personal reasons but from what I heard, the students had a blast (no pun intended) and learned a lot. Attached is an image of me being the patient, with a broken ankle and the other students having to fix it, of course, this is how it should NOT be done.  On one of the days, we did an simulation where a group had to make up a scene and people were injured in different ways, the other group had to act like the paramedics and figure out what was wrong with us.  In our simulation, we were in a taxi accident, I had hit my head against the chair in front of me and was supposed to have a brain injury.  My paramedic came and put a sponge neck brace around my head and went on with other patients, of course I died but at the end of the simulation, all the paramedics had died too because no one had bothered to make sure there were no hazards, in this case stop the oncoming traffic.  The weekend of the second week, I was on duty, I worked at SSB, which is the cleaning service for the chalets and Makhato houses on Sondela.  It was the hardest I've ever worked in my life and I have a lot more respect for all kinds of cleaners, it's not a fun job but somebody has to do it.