This was interesting. Good job. Could I learn this stuff in a first aid class or whatever? I want to take that CPR class that I've been planning to take and still haven't. Would stuff like this be included in that? Or would this be a different type of class? Once when I worked at one of my libraries, some guy started having a seizure. It was pretty bad. I called 911 while the librarian and a patron that was once a doctor went to help him. In my case, I had no choice but to call 911. But this was really interesting. I think I'd have a hard time actually touching someone I didn't know that was drooling at the mouth though. :/ Not saying that always happens, but I'm pretty sure it did "that one time".
Yeah, don't call 911. There is nothing the paramedics can do about it. The most dangerous part of it is the fall. Plus, it costs the person like $1,000 for an ambulance to come and wait it out.
Technically, in any case of fainting, you shouldn't call 911 if someone is still breathing and their heart is beating.
You can learn some of this from a CPR class, but that is more for life-threatening situations so they don't talk about things like seizures.
I guess there are different types of people, but if someone has fainted I would rather turn them on their side than have it on my concience if they were to choke on their own vomit and die. I tend to feel guilty over nothing at all so something that big would ruin me. (The other common scenario like this is when someone passes out from getting wasted.)
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This was interesting. Good job. Could I learn this stuff in a first aid class or whatever? I want to take that CPR class that I've been planning to take and still haven't. Would stuff like this be included in that? Or would this be a different type of class?
Once when I worked at one of my libraries, some guy started having a seizure. It was pretty bad. I called 911 while the librarian and a patron that was once a doctor went to help him. In my case, I had no choice but to call 911. But this was really interesting. I think I'd have a hard time actually touching someone I didn't know that was drooling at the mouth though. :/ Not saying that always happens, but I'm pretty sure it did "that one time".
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Technically, in any case of fainting, you shouldn't call 911 if someone is still breathing and their heart is beating.
You can learn some of this from a CPR class, but that is more for life-threatening situations so they don't talk about things like seizures.
I guess there are different types of people, but if someone has fainted I would rather turn them on their side than have it on my concience if they were to choke on their own vomit and die. I tend to feel guilty over nothing at all so something that big would ruin me. (The other common scenario like this is when someone passes out from getting wasted.)
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