Today’s article from Rome Newswire shows the effectiveness of first aid training.  The trainer, a former nail salon owner, is passing on her knowledge of first aid to others, and the response is – pay it forward.  Many people who put first aid first do decide to carry their knowledge amoxil forward to teach others.  Read the full article, and pick up some first aid tips as well as, perhaps, an encouragement to put first aid first in your life this new year.

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Students at the second part of the Community westernunion illinois Emergency Response Team training program learned Saturday that there are three kinds of bleeding — arterial, venous, capillary — and how to treat a bloody wound.

“It’s very interesting and very educational,” cheap levitra said Edward Washington, who is taking part in buy ampicillin online the certification program so he can later teach other members of Lovejoy Baptist Church what he learned. Kerr and Company “I plan to take an instructors course in March so hopefully I can instruct others.”

The CERT instructor explained the differences in the types of bleeding like so: Arterial bleeding is what victims in slasher movies experience, with bright red blood squirting from the wound; venous bleeding Summit Bank And Trust is when a vein is cut, causing a slower flow of darker blood; and capillary bleeding is must less serious, like road rash or a bad carpet burn.

The more than 30 students were taught to apply direct pressure to the wound, then elevate the wound if possible, and to squeeze a pressure point to slow the flow of blood to the wound. They also learned how to apply different kinds of bandages.

Cheryl Zirkelbach looked to be well practiced when the students paired up try out what they learned, and with good reason. Zirkelback is currently working on a master’s degree in emergency management at Jacksonville State University and is an intern at the local Emergency Managment Agency.

“I needed this experience. I needed to be out there and have the hands-on experience,” she said.

A former nail salon owner, Zirkelbach decided to go to college and ended up graduating from Shorter College with three bachelor’s degrees (communications, history and Spanish). She said she hopes to work in emergency management once she earns her master’s, and she’s open to buy Amoxil generic working anywhere in the world.

“There’s always going to be a another disaster or another war somewhere,” she said.

Students learned how to treat other wounds as well Saturday, such as burns, breaks, kamagra to buy sprains, shock and airway obstruction.

“They’re going to learn to triage,” said Vicki Wiles, CERT coordinator and a former student herself.

The program began last weekend ampicillin buy with search and rescue training and will conclude Feb. 7 with a training exercise during which the students will buy ampicillin cheap have to put out fires, aid victims and treat simulated wounds.

“The search and rescue, that’s one of the hardest things,” cheapest online zithromax said Zirkelbach. “When you’re going into a building and it’s dark and smokey you can get lost really without prescription drugs easily.”

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