NYAA Entry - Adventurous Journey - Preliminary Training - Entry 1- Life-saving

NYAA Entry - Adventurous Journey - Preliminary Training - Entry 1

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Focus for Adventurous Journey - Preliminary Training entry 1

• Safety Requirements (safety in the form of the DOs and DONTs in bad weather and not to play in river without proper shoe wear)
• First Aid & Emergency Procedures (EAR, CPR, shallow water rescue, which can be used durin trekkin over rivers)
• when writing this entry please take note of the above two focus and refer back to them at the right time.

Overview (for day 1)

• 20 lap swim (stamina training)
• reaching throwing wading (first aid and emergency procedures)
• casulty simulation(first aid and emergency procedures)
• DOs and DONTs (Safety requirement)
• simple EAR(first aid and emergency procedures)

LIFE-SAVING

Date: 19/06/06
Hours completed: 9 hours (0800 - 1700)

Today is the first day of our four day long life-saving profiency training. Right from 0800 onwards, i started on a 20 lap, 1000 m long swim from one end of the 50 m pool to the other end, using two recognisable strokes namely free-style and breast stroke. My stamina was put to the test.

Next, we proceeded to the first 3 part of Emergency Procedure - Reaching, Throwing and Wading. I was taught reaching using a pole, that is to pull the victim back near shore with it.

Throwing was next, with a static rope. There was much more to it than merely throwing a rope to a drowning casulty as most people thought.(highlight your own opinion in the process of learning) When pulling the victim back to shore, proper techniques are applied to achieve maximum effect, something that most normal people would overlook.(do not focus too much on what you have learned. instead, focus on how what you have learn have differ you from others)

Wading was another aspect. I had to enter the pool with a pole, sweep the bottom as though it is a seabed to keep sharp objects away, and approach a victim by stretching to him the pole, pull him to me and guide him back to shore.

After lunch, the class began casulty simulation. Some of us, as victims, acted to be suffering from shock, cramp and minor bleeding. I learned of the different treatment for both of these common injury, which have a high chance of occurance during the qualifying venture.(Do link back to how your preliminary training train you for the qualifying venture)

Theory lesson starts soon after first with the DOs & DON'Ts and self-survival skills. Example includes floating on your back, breathe deeply while awaiting for rescue and do not continue with vigorous activity when not feeling well, which are fundamental as a "Preventive is better than cure" measure.

Last part of the day involve a simple introduction to the Expired Air Resuscitation, involving the blowing air into the nose when attending to an unconscious water casulty.