{"id":2432,"date":"2014-04-29T11:25:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T15:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hnetalk.com\/?p=2432"},"modified":"2014-04-29T11:25:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T15:25:25","slug":"cpr-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/2014\/04\/29\/cpr-training\/","title":{"rendered":"CPR Training"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"medical-assistance\"<\/a>About a month ago I joined the Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT) here at HNE.\u00a0 Three weeks ago I took a First Aid class, and last Thursday, evening I took a CPR course. Both are required for participation on the MERT team. I had taken both courses many years ago when I was briefly a school bus driver in California, but my certifications had lapsed in the intervening years. Both courses were good refreshers, but I didn\u2019t expect to have to use them right away. Here at HNE we have real doctors and nurses on the MERT team, so I never thought my skills might be needed.<\/p>\n

The day after the CPR course, I was driving up to Burlington on Friday to pick up my daughter at University of Vermont for spring break.\u00a0 A little north of Montpelier on I-89, I was the second or third car to come upon an accident. A young woman had drifted from the left lane onto the median and flipped her car. If I hadn’t just taken the CPR class the night before, I probably would have driven past and assumed that the police would arrive soon, but because I had just received the training I thought I should stop because I might be the only person who had the skills if CPR was needed.<\/p>\n

Fortunately the young woman was uninjured, or at least appeared to be so. She was already out of the car by the time I got there. I asked a couple questions–was the area safe? Was the car ignition turned off? and looked at her closely. She was shaken but was on a cell phone talking to someone about what had just happened. Still, I made some mistakes.\u00a0 She was shivering, but neither I nor anyone else thought to have her put on a jacket. I did think about going to my car to get blankets I had in there (I could have brought them when I first went to the scene but didn’t think of it), but my car was across several lanes of highway and a couple hundred yards up the road, and I figured the police would be there by the time I went and came back, so I left, and as I was pulling out I did see the police arriving.<\/p>\n

Next time I will try to be more clear-headed, but this experience did prove to me that I should stop in emergencies, and that I will stop the next time, too.\u00a0 I just didn’t expect to be using what I learned so quickly!<\/p>\n

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About a month ago I joined the Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT) here at HNE.\u00a0 Three weeks ago I took a First Aid class, and last Thursday, evening I took a CPR course. Both are required for participation on the MERT team. I had taken both courses many years ago when I was briefly a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthy-links","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZxW-De","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}