First Aid training ...

This morning at 08.30am we went to the First Aid training at TFO (Training Facility Offices).
Keeping the previous courses in mind and having been a Red Cross member for over 12 years back home, I wasn't expecting too much of it.
And my thoughts weren't realy that far off. There was a pretty quick overview of CPR (cardio pulmonary resusitation) with hardly any practical exercises and an even more concised summary of typical injuries and what to do to stabilise the victim.
But all of this was done in the morning, so I was looking forward to the practical stuff in the afternoon. It was a course from 08.30am till 03.30pm, so enough time left, right ?

... No ...

There was one Resusci Anne (Annie), as we call the doll, to perfrom CPR and one baby Anne (Annie). The trainer asked groups of 4 to come forward and do the exercise. Some guys only managed to blow air into the lunges once and the trainer found that sufficient enough and sent them back to their chairs.

To be honest, I hope I don't need to be rescued when they are on their shift...
At the end we got a "multiple answer"- test with 24 questions which by most of the group was solved in consultation with one-another.
We did get a nice book though, so hopefully some of them will read it.

Resusci Anne was developed by Norwegian toy maker Asmund Laerdal, based on the research of Peter Safar and James Elam, and was first introduced in 1960. The distinctive face of Resusci Anne was based on l'Inconnu de la Seine (the unknown of the Seine), the death mask of an unidentified young woman reputedly drowned in the Seine River around the late 1880s.