Brian on Harnser wrote: > It happens that Graham Keens formulated : >> David Cragg told us about the Community First Responders in his area. >> >> >> In Oxfordshire, we now have the retained Fire service attending to >> perform this sort of role. If you call 999 for a medical emergency a >> large noisy red fire engine appears out side your house and sits >> blocking the road, ready to respond to any other emergency that may >> occur, while one of the crew members delivers first aid until an >> ambulance can arrive. >> It gets someone there fast but I bet it is annoying the employers of >> the aforementioned retained firemen as their number of callouts must >> have doubled since they started this new process. >> > Twice the pay :D :D > In Suffolk we have the CFRs but they are not first aiders but are > trained to a higher level than the ambulance paramedics, they start on > the ambulance run and then get promoted. We also have community first > aiders who are just that. members of the community who are trained in > first aid and I think defribulation.
Training in defribulation [or even defibulation :-) ] is not necessary for a first aider. The role of a first aider is to preserve life until the men is green arrive. Correct CPR should do that (although the method changes *every* time I go on the refresher course - I'm a qualified "first aider at work" - it's now 2 breaths to 30 compressions OR 100 comnpression per minute) -- Ron Jones Process Safety & Development Specialist Don't repeat history, unreported chemical lab/plant near misses at http://www.crhf.org.uk Only two things are certain: The universe and human stupidity; and I'm not certain about the universe. ~ Albert Einstein
