- It's legal to sell your organs in South Africa. "You'll get about R7000 to R9000 for a kidney round about."
- Spray and cook does help make your licence plate blurry but you'll need a CD to obscure your licence on your windshield. Who knew?
- Ambulances WILL prioritise your calls in this order.
- #1. Bleeding (be sure to use words like spurting and gushing else you won't rate as high)
- #2. Unconscious (because they know that most people are crap at CPR and if you're unconscious you're a bit too close to dead)
- #3. Broken bones (actually there are a few that come before broken bones but she didn't really say what they were. Basically if all you're phoning about is a broken bone, get ready to wait a while. The only thing lower than a broken bone apparently is if you mention the person needing help may have been a suicide.)
- 99% of the time the person you're performing AV or CPR on won't regain consciousness while you're working on them. Usually only at the hospital.
- 7 out of 10 times you're going to break your patient's ribs. That's why a first aid course is important, so that you hopefully break them in the correct way towards the outside rather than towards the inside where you can puncture a lung and kill them. ugh.
- Up until about 5 years ago you wouldn't pinch your patients nose to try and wake them up, it was allowed that you pinch their nipples of ALL places. The only reason this stopped was because a lot of people sued. Rightfully so methinks.
- There are 3 things a "First Aider" may not do unless they enjoy being sued:
- #1. Hand out any medication. Be it a Panado, Disprin or Nurofen etc. Myprodol is a no no peoples.
- #2. Move an unconscious patient.
- #3. Purposefully harming a patient or causing them pain. (no matter how difficult they're being. pity ;)
But I passed the practical test so far, so here's looking to the theory exam tomorrow!
16.09.2010 TURNS OUT.
That maybe it's not so legal. er.
read this one
