Bike 1st Aid ...

[Rusty]

Went for a 6 monthly 1st Aid at Work refresher today .... some of the chaps moan but I have to say I always find it interesting ..... basic ABC to CPR to Ballistic Trauma to infants ... anything we may come across on a day to day basis, and there was an input on Bike Crash Management ... injured parties, helmets on or take them off ? breathing or not, neck injury and unconscious ??? ... all different scenarios that made us think ... it would take me all day to type out what we went through and even then I could miss stuff but it just reminded me of biking injuries and how we can all make a difference if only you know what you are doing and can manage a casualty ...made me think that I always take a first aid kit with me when I go to France or on a trip but not on a daily basis ( !! ).... so if you have a spare half hour or so Google some topics along those lines or watch some videos or anything like that so that if YOU were to come across a crash and the chaps from Holby City hadn't yet turned up you may be able to make a difference to some poor fellow biker who has come a gutzer ..... :'(

[Lonewolf]

My last first aid course was 11 years ago. Me thinks I might be due a refresher too any year now.
I've read about these bike first on scene courses and I do have a DVD somewhere in the house which I got from work, part of the DVD examines how to treat a casualty at the scene pending arrival of the pro's etc. How to do scene management etc. Never hurts to have a simple understanding of the do's and dont's.

[Therenback]

Blimey LR Doesn't say much for nhs when I jealous of constabulary refresher course lol, obviously I don't deal with ballistic injuries but wish ours bit fuller

[Rusty]

 ;D ;D ;D

[patrick]

I've done "First Bike on the Scene"

http://www.firstaid-training.com/firstbikeonscene.asp

and never needed it yet, but who knows!

P

[Rusty]

Patrick ... was it good ? Enjoy it ? Worth while ? I am off for a few days and am going to buy a new 1st Aid bag for the bike and then tweek it with some of my old TEAMS medics stuff that I am sure expired some time ago  ;)

[patrick]

Yes it was definitely worth it.

The course was developed by  Lancashire Ambulance Service and is not a 1st aid course.

It's effectvely about accident scene assesment and management, injury assesment, spine / neck care and basic life support. The aim is to equip riders with skills, including helmet removal, to preserve life until a paramedic arrives.

As the course name suggests it is often the case that a rider is 1st at a bike accident as we tend to ride with mates, and at car accidents because we filter to the front of the Q.

The helmet removal was nerve racking but when it's neccessary it has to be done because the casualty is going to be sick or else he will aspirate his vommit  (the stomach contents are taken into the lungs).

I did the course in 2009 and again this year and recommend it.

P

[Lonewolf]

I generally carry a very small first aid kit with me when I'm out and about. Nothing special, plasters, various size bandages, foil blanket, hand warmers, those things you stick over someones mouth to give mouth to mouth, (I cant remember what they are called), latex gloves etc. I also have so far never had to use it but you just never know.

[Rusty]

Nice to hear it P .. the good thing is that most of these courses are either free or fairly cheap and whatever you do at the scene it's always going to help someone ... and in this day and age that's admirable.  ;D

[BigAlan]

I to have a first aid kit in the topbox, made specially for me by a guy in the Northanptonshire Ambulance brigade, only had to use it once so far.

Alan

[patrick]

Nice to hear it P .. the good thing is that most of these courses are either free or fairly cheap and whatever you do at the scene it's always going to help someone ... and in this day and age that's admirable.  ;D

I thought I as going to use the skills on a recent charity cycle ride. A radio message came through about a lady who had come off her bike and was experiencing back pain. I was the nearest moto marshal so off i went, but St John Paramedics arrive just ahead of me and had her neck imobilised, so I did the simple thing and control the traffic!

P