Resuscitation is first aid skill most Japanese want to learn
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Here is a far too short survey from iShare into first aid training.
Demographics
Between the 8th and 11th of April 2011 922 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.7% of the sample were male, 2.3% in their twenties, 45.0% in their thirties, and 52.7% in their forties.
I’ve learnt both AED usage and resuscitation; indeed, you cannot really learn how to use an AED without also adding in manual intervention, as the recommended method of use is to perform (let’s see if I can remember…) heart massage and artificial respiration while someone is off fetching the AED, and of course the AED itself may decide not to fire if the patient is not in need of defibrillating.
I’m surprised at how low the figures are here – although there wouldn’t have been much call for many of the skills at the recent earthquake, I would have hoped that it would have awakened the volunteer spirit in a few more people.
Research results
Q1: If you knew of somewhere offering first aid training, would would want to attend? (Sample size=922)
| All | Male N=495 |
Female N=427 |
|
| Definitely (to SQ) | 10.2% | 7.3% | 13.6% |
| Perhaps (to SQ) | 56.6% | 53.5% | 60.2% |
| No | 33.2% | 39.2% | 26.2% |
Q1SQ: What first aid skill would you most want to learn? (Sample size=616)
| All | Male N=301 |
Female N=315 |
|
| Artificial resuscitation | 29.5% | 32.6% | 26.7% |
| AED usage | 23.5% | 20.6% | 26.3% |
| How to watch over casualties | 15.3% | 15.3% | 15.2% |
| Treating external injuries | 11.2% | 11.0% | 11.4% |
| Stopping blood loss | 10.4% | 9.3% | 11.4% |
| Moving injured people | 4.9% | 5.0% | 4.8% |
| Life-saving posture | 3.9% | 4.7% | 3.2% |
| Other | 1.3% | 1.7% | 1.0% |
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good figures very useful
There isn’t much point learning one first aid skill.
You need to be able to do DRAB, recovery position, examination for wounds, basic treatments to stop blood loss, and resuscitation. If you know that you’ll be able to help anyone in a situation where you can send for an ambulance. The basic three day Red Cross course teaches all of that plus lots of other stuff about poisoning, eye injuries, heat stroke, how to do slings, bandages, move injured patients, and even how to treat a perforated chest wound.
The best way to advance beyond that is practical experience and advanced courses.