I have mandatory Automatic External Defibrillator training today

[VelmaD]

Wheeeee.

I don't know about y'all but I am less than comfortable with the idea of SOME of the people I work with coming at me with the electric shock. Eep.

[Richardo]

1. Do you get to practice on your boss?

Could be a good shovel substitute.

[VelmaD]

3. Wow

Excellent point. I hadnot thought of that. You just made my day. *big smooch*

[redqueen]

2. You use a real one?

All turned on and everything?

Oh, hell no.

[VelmaD]

5. Well, not for the training...

I don't think. I think we just have to watch a video. Which makes me even LESS confident that one of my cow-irkers could save me in an emergency.

I'll wait on the EMTs thank you very much.

[Richardo]

7. *snarf* "cow-irkers"

[VelmaD]

8. I can't take credit...

for that one. I got it from DarkPhenyx.

[Coastie for Truth]

9. The way Fire/EMS budgets are being cut

"I'll wait on the EMTs thank you very much." - you might end up waiting for the Medical Examiner.

The first three minutes makes the difference.

[VelmaD]

11. I know...I used to work in a hospital...

I'm just not sure that watching a 20 minute video is going to give any of my co-workers enough information to do anything in those first 3 minutes that won't make it worse.

No hands on training...just the video.

[Coastie for Truth]

19. Where my wife works the FD gives the Emergency training

-- and she sees why women are attracted to fire fighters and why kids look up to fire fighters.

[VelmaD]

20. Mmm...firefighters

I can definintely see her POV on this.

[Coastie for Truth]

14. Where my wife works

they have a one week "Earth Quake - AED - First Aid" class (40 hours) when they're hired - and annually thereafter. She works within walking distance of the San Andreas Fault - and we live within walking distance of the Hayward-Calaveras Fault system.

So, when the "Big One" comes - we'll just shake and slide up to Seattle.

[VelmaD]

17. I work in the juvenile justice system...

and out in our institutions they have annual safety-first aid-cpr training because of the youth in our care. But not here in the Central Office. I guess we're expendable.

[Coastie for Truth]

21. My wife works one on one

with "active golden agers"

[short bus president]

4. Hee! When it's yer turn to stick the pads on the dummy,

go for the crotch. They'll think twice about the devices they trust you with...

[VelmaD]

6. You are a sick and twisted individual

I like you.

[KurtNYC]

10. We had that and it was taught by fundies

from Virginia. They told us all about how * was a hero on 911.

[VelmaD]

12. *blink*

*blink blink*

Ok, that is one of the weirdest damn things I've heard in a while. How in the heck did they go from talking about using an AED to talking about shrub? Wow.

[KurtNYC]

24. You can see lower Manhattan from our conference rooms

She also implied that you could get HIV from mouth to mouth.

[MuseRider]

13. It is easy

just remember to make certain EVERYONE is clear before you use them. Seriously.

[VelmaD]

15. Yup...

I used to work in a hospital so I have had WAY more thorough emergency training that this. Mostly I'm just worried that people aren't going to take the training seriously, and that it won't go into enough detail, and that without hands-on training it's useless anyway.

[two gun sid]

16. We have that training every year....

last year an employee fell out with a heart attack. After starting CPR the AED was brought to the scene and attached to the victim. The internal battery was dead. No one had thought to do any maintenance on it.

[VelmaD]

18. That is insane...

I hope your safety officer or whatever they call the person in charge of that kind of thing got their ass handed to them.

[two gun sid]

22. Nope. I work for a large State Government Agency....

it was just swept under the rug.

[VelmaD]

23. Holy shit!

Well there goes my faith that the AED will work here when my turn comes.

[Worst Username Ever]

25. I had that for EMT training. It is SUPER EASY.

A voice, literally, tells you what to do. All you really need to do is know approximately where to put the pads. The machine really won't even let you shock someone accidentally. If it detects a heart beat that is not v-fib or v-tach, it won't shock.