First Aid Course

On the 3rd and the 17th two Spitfire scouts and myself participated in a two part first aid course which was open to the North Rand District. We learned about stokes, heart attacks, shock, bleeding, burns and CPR. On the 3rd we did all theory and on the 17th we did practicals. On the 3rd I learned the easiest way of identifying snake, A for Adders which have cytotoxic venom, B for Boomslang which has haemotoxic venom and C for Cobras and Mambas which have neurotoxic venom. On the 17 we had to do CPR on a dummy and we also practiced how to dress a wound. We have to wait to do a test on this before we get the First Aid Interest Badge. The two scouter also participated.