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Originally Posted by valo403
The piling on Mirajj here is pretty ridiculous, all he did was state what most of the population thinks. I'm sure all of you think you'd do something from behind your keyboards, but the reality is most of you would be standing there stunned or would take steps that would be of little to no help, or potentially cause further problems. If you have the ability to help and don't that's a different situation, but most of us don't. I agree with Conroy22's earlier statement that maybe such basic training should be part of school curriculum though, nothing but good can come from that.
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Didn't mean to misjudge what he said, he is entitled to his own opinion, however he blatantly said that he would think of himself before others. I was just stating what I personally would do in emergency situations. Then again, I am trained so I have a different mindset on it then people who aren't.
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If I was on site I wouldn't have jumped in to give medical attention for one very simple reason, I have no idea what the right thing is to do in that situation. I have zero training. I know that where there's a concern of spinal injury I would do more harm than good if acting on my own. Not something I'm proud of, wish I knew more and probably should, but I simply don't. If it's a situation I was qualified to help with, say simply moving debris to allow treatment I'd be there in a heartbeat, but that's a different situation.
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This is where I think there should be some programs, or in schools, that teach these kind of things, so that everyone at least has some sort of an idea how to deal with emergency situations. Start teaching it in schools. If they are going to make French and gym mandatory, why not make it mandatory to know basic first aid, to know how to deal with spinals, seizures, broken bones, everything that could randomly happen in everyday life. I'm not at all blaming you for now knowing what to do, I just think it should somehow be incorporated into school or work programs. Totally agree with you on your other point as well. From how I saw the girl's body position from the top of the slide, I suspected there might be a suspected spinal, so she was the one I was aiming to get at more so over the other ones who were in less critical condition. Not that I was choosing, I would have helped anyone I could, but when spinal injuries occur in the water, EMS and the paramedics are not the ones who deal with them until after they are out of the water, its the lifeguards jobs to deal with them in the water, so we go through a lot of intense training and do spinal scenarios over and over and over, so at least I knew what I was doing when I got to her. The others I was with may not have had the knowledge I did, so that's why I chose her to go to first, so I knew there was at least one person with spinal knowledge.