The training aligns with the Emergency First Response (EFR) international system and follows protocols set by the ILCOR (International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation). This ensures the knowledge gained here is up-to-date, modern, and recognized internationally.
What we learned:
- Basics of life-saving: assessing scene safety, using protective equipment, examining unconscious casualties, adult and child resuscitation, defibrillator use.
- Injury care: stopping bleeding, bandaging techniques, treating sprains, dislocations, closed and open fractures, recognizing and managing shock.
- Diseases and acute situations: care for heart attack, stroke, diabetes, asthma attacks, allergic reactions, poisoning, burns, electric shock.
- Outdoor specialties: frostbite, high-altitude sickness, hypoxia, lightning strikes, and sports accidents (e.g., cycling, skiing, equestrian or diving incidents).
The practical sessions were supported by lifelike training manikins (Ambu Sam, Baby Anne), enabling realistic simulations such as airway opening, resuscitation, and defibrillator practice.
Skills learned during the training:
- Adult and child resuscitation (on lifelike practice manikins).
- Care for bleeding, fractures, shock, airway obstruction.
- Handling special cases related to sports and outdoor situations (frostbite, high-altitude sickness, electric shock, burns, allergies).
- Proper removal of equipment (e.g., helmet, skis, hiking boots)
- Care for bleeding and fractures (specifically with outdoor immobilization techniques using jacket, trekking pole, t-shirt)
- Skull, spine, pelvis fractures (e.g., fall from a rock)
- Wounds: specifically snake bite (common when reaching into climbing cracks), dog, donkey bite (possible during a hike), crush wounds from falls
- Burn care
- Poisonings (smoke gas in huts, CO, CO2, NO from stove in tent)
- Diarrhea, dehydration (poisoning e.g., from drinking from spring near grazing area)
- Allergy (food e.g., peanuts), or wasp sting
- Lightning strike
- Blisters
- Burns-frostbite, hypothermia, heatstroke
- Altitude sickness and many other.