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Last night we had out SES Cadet breakup night. We arrived at SES HQ at 4:00pm, and then a bus driver (from St Brendens I think) kindly drove us into Rocky. Unfortunately the girls from St Ursulas had their formal on that night, so none of them turned up. All in all we had 14 people, including us kids, the SES leaders and the bus driver.

One thing the pictures below don’t show is that we went to Domino’s Pizza after bowling. I got a Vegorama while the others all got Meatlovers. But anyway, on to the photos!

The Rockhampton Ten Pin Bowling Arcade. At first they had the Ultra Violet lights on but as you can see below, they turned them off after a while and just put the normal lights on. In UV light, everything the colour white glows.

After we had finished bowling but before we went to Domino’s, they gave us our first aid certificates and statements of participation for being in the SES. I have to renew my CPR in November 2008, while my first aid skills don’t need to be tested again until November 2010.

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On Thursday night at SES, we completed our first aid course. Although the tests were supposed to be on the next Thursday, one of the instructors was going to be away then so we had to do the tests this Thursday. Anyway, first of all we learnt about bandaging, sprains, and stuff like that, then we did some practising. After the practising we were called into a separate room to be tested on CPR and first aid.

For the CPR you had to apply everything you’d learnt about checking for danger, checking for responses on the casualty, etc. You then had to do the actual CPR, which is 2 breaths and then 30 compressions.

After finishing that, I went on to the written test, which consisted of 10 multiple choice questions. The old test that they used to use contained 25 questions, I’m glad I didn’t do that one! I wasn’t sure of 1 or 2 questions so the instructor explained which was the correct choice.

Now that I’ve passed the testing I will eventually receive a certificate saying that I’ve done the testing. Every so often I will be notified that I need to renew the certificate to make sure that I still know how do first aid. Of course this won’t as hard as the actual course was :).

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Like my sensational headline? On Thursday night (18th Oct) at SES Cadets we started out first-aid course, and in the manual that we were given they had pictures of the above injuries that can be seen by going here (be warned: these images may offend some people as they are very graphic).

The cover of my first-aid manual

We will be doing the first-aid every week for about 4 weeks. This week we learnt how to do CPR, which is actually quite easy once you know what to do. First of all you need to ensure safety for yourself, bystanders and the injured person. You then need to do the COWS check. COWS stands for Can you hear me, Open your eyes, What’s your name, Squeeze my hands.

After you’ve done that, the person’s airway needs to be cleaned it it has anything blocking it. After clearing the airway, normal breathing needs to be checked for by looking, feeling and listening. If the person is not breathing or moving, an ambulance needs to be called.

Once all that is done, the actual CPR needs to be started. The head is tilted back and you give the person two full breaths, while blocking their nose so the air can’t escape. The compressions then need to be started. The old way required you to give 2 breaths and 15 compressions, but it has been changed to 2 breaths and 30 compressions.

That process (2 breaths and 30 compressions) needs to be continued until an ambulance arrives, the person regains consciousness or you just can’t do it any longer. If the person starts showing signs of recovery you need to roll them on their side and check for breathing. They then need to be reassured.

The process that I described above is for adults, but for children and infants the process is a little bit different.

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