Who hear knows CPR - or knew it and now can't remember it?

(Sorry, I was watching lots of motorcycle crash videos yesterday!) and today I'm feeling kinda vulnerable!!!

ME! I've been a lifeguard for 6 years and re-cert CPR every year.  Well, not this year because my lifeguard cert is up and it's time to move onto bigger and better things

I know it, am a first responder in my office at work... sure would hate to use it in a bad accident like a moto crash... cardiac arrest is scary enough.  I do carry a pocket mask with me pretty much everywhere

I know it pretty well, I'm a volunteer firefighter and a NYS EMT.

I learned CPR in health class in high school.  I'm not sure how well you want to trust my memory, but if you need CPR you don't havea a lot of other options... 

I'm a certified Red Cross first medical responder

i can perform cpr and do all sorts of other fun pre-hospital basic EMT level stuff (provided i'm working as a volunteer medic)

Becomming a paramedic is my secondary studies on my spare time, in addition to formal courses/exams/training.

Is the scene safe?
- The scene is safe.
Gloves, gloves, mask. Are you ok, are you ok?


shaZam!, I had to do that every Thursday at 6 in the morning from the time I was 15 to when I was 20. While there were many perks to being a lifeguard as a teenager, the weekly inservices were not one. Swimming laps in the rain at that ungodly hour should have been banned.

I think I could go through the motions with someone to guide me, even to this day. I'm sure I'll be learning it again when I start teaching next year.

Ok so the client company requires that every year I get recert in CPR but heaven forbide if I have to ever perform it because the my contractor company will fire if I do because it is against their policies. 

its funny how many people who work in EMS ride "dangerous" motorcycle  .....oops...yeah i know cpr....but heimlich manuever are way more fun 

I used to be trained and certified in both First Aid and CPR when I worked as a Security Officer (through college and for a couple years after). I haven't renewed it in a long time, but it is a good thing to know for sure. I can identify with AJ though; I was trained in it but "discouraged" from using it.

Quote from: my_celica_is_jealous on April 25, 2006, 03:15:05 PM
its funny how many people who work in EMS ride "dangerous" motorcycle  .....oops...yeah i know cpr....but heimlich manuever are way more fun 

Performing abdominal thrusts on yourself is even more fun than performing it on other people.

They usually don't call it the Heimlich maneuver anymore, they simply call them abdominal thrusts because Dr.Heimlich was filing lawsuits.

abdominal thrusts (Heimlich) is actually illegal down under in aussie land.

Quote from: mike_mike on April 25, 2006, 04:35:37 PM
abdominal thrusts (Heimlich) is actually illegal down under in aussie land.

wow... so what do they do down under when little johnny is choking on a lego?