Trauma day is when we are going to have a more realistic CPR experience. Its with the whole MYP and the teachers who are there to help and organize. We have class being the patients, a class being first responder, a class doing the filming, and a class doing the grading. We are put in different groups that have people form every class. I was in a group with Monika, Persis, Hannah, Simran, Atilia, Carmen, Selma, Alexander, Benjamin, and Josefine.
Here is what we had:
First responders - They were the ones that were going to do the ABC. They had the first aid kit and they were going to treat the injured people.
Patients - (aka injured people) They got a piece of paper that had written what their injured were and how they are going be acting. Some were dead and some had things sticking in their bodies. And they were taken away behind the woods.
Filming - The filming was basically filming what was going on. people who were going to film, had to chose a specific person to film while they were doing the first responder job.
Grading - We also had people grading others works. They graded the first responder. They checked to see if they did the ABC properly and if they knew how to handle the situation.
When I was being a first responder I felt a lot stressed, since there was someone filming and grading me. When I was being a patient it was fun, especially since I was the annoying person that walked around trying to help but I was making things worse. Filming and grading was okay too, but grading was kind of hard. Sometime I was not sure what the person was doing.
When I was being a first responder, I was helping Atila (in MYP A) first. Someone crashed into him at this ski slope, so he got very badly injured and had a ski stick through his leg. He was in pain. He wasn't in shock that much, but his head was also hurting. What me and Hannah did first was wrap a bandage and a cloth around his leg and the ski stick. We wrapped it in a x form. I also wrapped some tape around his thigh hardly, to stop or slow down the bleeding. I learn this from the P.E lessons we had. I remember we had this one time where Inga had a stick in her arm and the first thing I did was pull it out. I found out that is NOT what you are supposed to do.
One thing I forgot which is the most important thing is that I should have first checked around me. Atila was actually still on the ski slope or hill thing, and I forgot all about that. We should have carried him to the side, but also there were many people confused about the location. We couldn't really tell if they were in the way or to the side. It was confusing.
We also had Selma which we had to carry and lay her down because of her broken back. What really sucked was that our group was not always working together. We had two people on one person and then we had to carry someone but no one came. It took like 5 minutes for them to come help us carry Selma.
I wasn't expecting trauma day to be this fun. I thought it was going to be a bit boring and tiring. I actually enjoyed it a lot and used what I had learnt from the P.E lessons. I am looking forward to more activites like this, but not in winter. I can't deal with that. I hate winter.
What I think I could have done better is thinking more back to what we learnt in P.E class, and checking the surrounding first. I kept on forgetting that. I also wish I graded better. It was probably very un-detailed.
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