The Irrelevant First Aid Training
This blog is written mostly tongue in cheek. Some points may be informative. Please provide your feedback.
If you suffer from self-irrelevancy, please seek professional advice.
Hello. I have been trained in first aid. I believe I could help someone if they had a "natural" accident (ie caused by medical condition). However, if there were a real emergency, I think my training would be irrelevant.
Why? Because of a lack of equipment, for one. If someone isn't available right away with a defibrilator and/or oxygen tank, and we're a long way from a hospital, the odds of a patient surviving are very low.
Second, a lack of time is always an issue. If you are not right with someone when they go into crisis, the odds of getting to them in time are minimal. And even if you do, you're back to the same lack of equipment problem mentioned above.
So is first aid training relevant? It's better than no first aid training, but the odds of saving someone as a result are still very low, to the point of being irrelevant.
Regards,
Irrelevant
If you suffer from self-irrelevancy, please seek professional advice.
Hello. I have been trained in first aid. I believe I could help someone if they had a "natural" accident (ie caused by medical condition). However, if there were a real emergency, I think my training would be irrelevant.
Why? Because of a lack of equipment, for one. If someone isn't available right away with a defibrilator and/or oxygen tank, and we're a long way from a hospital, the odds of a patient surviving are very low.
Second, a lack of time is always an issue. If you are not right with someone when they go into crisis, the odds of getting to them in time are minimal. And even if you do, you're back to the same lack of equipment problem mentioned above.
So is first aid training relevant? It's better than no first aid training, but the odds of saving someone as a result are still very low, to the point of being irrelevant.
Regards,
Irrelevant
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