Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Learning to Save Lives

Last week we were really lucky to have Kathryn come into our class to deliver St Johns 'People Savers' course. Ruma Kereru couldn't believe it when a whole heap of bodies came out of the bag that Kathryn carried into class.

Before they knew it the students were down on their hands and knees and doing keeping time to the song 'Staying Alive' while they did chest compressions to pump air into the models. After they have done the 30 compressions they needed to blow air into the models.

Things got really exciting when Kathryn got a model called Brayden out of her bag. Brayden lit up when enough oxygen was pushed through to the brain. It was exciting to see who could get their timings accurate enough to make this happen. Here are some photos but keep an eye out for the videos that are coming soon!

Kade gets his hands on the 'live' model Brayden

Rotating around the models - it got tiring!

Covering the mouths on the titled heads.

Kathryn demonstrates how the 'live' model will work.