Tuesday 4 September 2018

St John Response

Yesterday 3/9/18 someone from St John came to the
school and showed us some useful skills. Room 1
went to the tech block in the afternoon.


They showed us what to do in an emergency situation.
The St John lady (Catherine) taught us something called the DRSABCD.
This is what is stands for, D dangers, R response, S send for help,
A airway, B breathing, C commence CPR and D for Defibrillation.
These are the things that you need to use if you see someone unconscious.


Catherine showed us how to put someone into the recovery position.
First you tilt their head back, then with the arm closest to you out and the
arm furthest away from you across their body.
Next you put the leg furthest away from you up, then you roll
then towards you. Now you have to put the leg that you put up
into a capital L shape to stop the person from rolling onto their face.


Catherine taught us how to do CPR properly. Before you do CPR
you have to do the DRSABCD. Catherine brought in 8
dummies for us to practise doing CPR on.
We got put in groups and we and to CPR on some dummies.
First we had to wipe the nose, chin and inside the mouth.
Then we put some thin sheets called a breathing shield
over their mouth because we had to share the dummies.
While we did CPR Catherine put on a song to keep us in time.


To do CPR you have to put hands clasped together on their
chest. You then do 30 pushes on their chest the same time apart
and the same speed. Next you have to do to breaths into their mouth.
When you do this you need to tip their chin back so the air goes
down their throat and into their lungs. You never stop doing CPR.
The only times you can stop is if someone else some to relieve you
or if you have been doing it for 1 of 2 hours and you are
completely exhausted. When you do CPR you become the heart
of the person that you are doing CPR on.


Once you call the ambulance to help you, they are most likely to
have something called the defib machine. It is a machine that has
2 pads that you stick onto the persons chest. The pads will not stick to
hair of clothes so you need to cut the clothes and shave the hair (if they have them).
There are 3 buttons that you press. One is to start the instructions and you need to
press that. The other button is to give the shock.

I really enjoyed doing the lesson with Catherine and my classmates.
I think that everyone should know how to do CPR and how to put
someone into the recovery position. Being able to do CPR is a good life skill.
I think that they could
also taught us what to do if you get a bad cut or a burn.
Here is a photo of me doing CPR on the dummy.

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