Basic First Aide and Rescue Techniques

 Basic First Aide and Rescue Techniques

After a day being a Tour Facilitator, my group-mate and I went to Bulacan for an event named Basic Rescue Training with some registered Emergency Medical Technician from known companies here in the Philippines. We also have a professional fireman with us.

We trekked towards the summit late morning and cooked our lunch at a fork pathway. While cooking, our trainer started teaching on how to get blood pressure using blood pressure apparatus. 

After a bountiful lunch we fetched water. It's a 30-45 minute hike from our pit-stop to the water source. Trekking then resumed until we reached campsite, exhausted somehow due to long a long calorie burning activity and the skin-burning heat of the sun. Tents were pitched then Basic First Aide skills lecture commenced. A brief hands-on training on how to use a triangular bandage and wound management.

Basic Life Support known as BLS lecture was then started.

When the surroundings came dark, we started to prepare our dinner and our pik-a-pik-a for our social outdoor drinking session. Still exhausted from tour facilitation and hours of hiking, I slept early.

I woke early to pack my things. ( I am very slow at packing things so I adjusted my time.)

While having breakfast, lessons were resumed. Basic Patient Transfer were taught and before we know it, we were the last group in the camp.

We then descended to a nearby falls to wash-up. We had our lunch and exchanged ideas while we soak our feet in the cold rushing water of the falls.

Skills refreshed, met new friends, got commune with nature, have burned a lot of calories. Until the next nature tripping.