More of a moment than a suck, but the Tales of First Aid Training continue.
This time, it's for my Emergency Asthma Management course. Yay! Luckily the place where I am doing said course has a module specifically designed for childcare workers and schools (I technically fall into both categories). So ALL the people in training are childcare workers or school workers in some shape or form.
So we go through the basic "this is what triggers asthma, this is what to do in the event of an asthma attack" stuff...and then CUE the inhalers.
There were four main "styles" of inhalers, plus four different "types" of medication. In a childcare scenario, specifically an after-school care or a long day care scenario? We're likely to see the relievers and MAYBE the preventers, done mostly in MDI form (your stereotypical "inhaler").
So WHY did we need to know about the OTHER groups of inhalers, especially because quite a few of them were a) designed for kids over 8-12 (YMMV on the inhaler) and b) we'd be unlikely to see them because most RESPONSIBLE parents would ensure that junior takes his preventer or symptom controller or combined medication AT HOME?!
And let's not even GET into the spacers....SO MANY!
I also heard a VERY disgusting story at training, courtesy of said trainer. It involved a spacer.
He was doing a training session at a football club and came across the club's spacer in their first aid kit. Said spacer was OPAQUE WHITE.
He wondered WHY it was opaque white and whether they had painted their spacer or not. If so...why?
Turned out that no, they had NOT painted it. It was in fact opaque white because it had been sitting in the first aid kit for 10 years...and nobody had cleaned it after use. Over time, the powder had slowly caked on the inside of the spacer and built up.
Needless to say, he gave them a thorough lecture on washing your spacers, having your OWN spacers and not letting it get to that stage!
This time, it's for my Emergency Asthma Management course. Yay! Luckily the place where I am doing said course has a module specifically designed for childcare workers and schools (I technically fall into both categories). So ALL the people in training are childcare workers or school workers in some shape or form.
So we go through the basic "this is what triggers asthma, this is what to do in the event of an asthma attack" stuff...and then CUE the inhalers.
There were four main "styles" of inhalers, plus four different "types" of medication. In a childcare scenario, specifically an after-school care or a long day care scenario? We're likely to see the relievers and MAYBE the preventers, done mostly in MDI form (your stereotypical "inhaler").
So WHY did we need to know about the OTHER groups of inhalers, especially because quite a few of them were a) designed for kids over 8-12 (YMMV on the inhaler) and b) we'd be unlikely to see them because most RESPONSIBLE parents would ensure that junior takes his preventer or symptom controller or combined medication AT HOME?!
And let's not even GET into the spacers....SO MANY!
I also heard a VERY disgusting story at training, courtesy of said trainer. It involved a spacer.
He was doing a training session at a football club and came across the club's spacer in their first aid kit. Said spacer was OPAQUE WHITE.
He wondered WHY it was opaque white and whether they had painted their spacer or not. If so...why?
Turned out that no, they had NOT painted it. It was in fact opaque white because it had been sitting in the first aid kit for 10 years...and nobody had cleaned it after use. Over time, the powder had slowly caked on the inside of the spacer and built up.
Needless to say, he gave them a thorough lecture on washing your spacers, having your OWN spacers and not letting it get to that stage!
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