Basic Life Support and First Responder Training Program

Yearly, I pledge to myself that I should learn a new thing or two. Since I won an Informatics scholarship worth 10,000 pesos from Chuvaness last year, maybe I'll be taking up a short course in Informatics. Still deciding what to take though .

Anyway, for all of you (I already took this 2 years ago), I suggest you take the training for Basic Life Support. I tell you, this is going to be worth it! For 500 pesos only, you would learn:
- FBAO (How to remove Foreign Body Airway Obstruction)
- Rescue Breathing
- Cardio-Pulmonary-Cerebral Resuscitation. (a.k.a. CPR)
- PLUS! Tons of other first aid basics!

Basic Life Support according to Wikipedia is, a level of medical care which is used for patients with life-threatening illness or injury until the patient can be given full medical care. It can be provided by trained medical personnel, including emergency medical technicians, and by laypersons who have received BLS training. BLS is generally used in the pre-hospital setting, and can be provided without medical equipment. (Click here to read more)

Basic Life Support (BLS) is a 16-hour course and will start on March 6 and 7, 2010 (Saturday and Sunday)

Venue of the First Responder Training Program is the Hospital of the Infant Jesus Auditorium (6th Floor) Laong Laan cor. Lacson St. Manila.

Training Fee: 500 pesos for the entire course. Certificate upon completion

You know why those skills are important?

If you watch the video I embeded below (real life, unedited), the by-standers think that they are helping the victims of the motorcycle accident (Malvar) BUT, they are actually causing more harm.



This will not only be a new learning for you but, you might save a life or two by attending this training. What is 500 pesos for a 2-day training? You would be getting a certificate after.

If, by any chance you have attended and passed the Basic Life Support training (BLS), I suggest you attend this next course,

This is the First Responder Training Program (Prerequisite: Basic Life Support).

A certified first responder is a person who has completed a course and received certification in providing pre-hospital care for medical emergencies. They have more skill than someone who is trained in basic first aid but they are not a substitute for advanced medical care rendered by emergency medical technicians, emergency physicians, nurses, or paramedics. The term "certified first responder" is not to be confused with "first responder", which is a generic term referring to the first medically trained responder to arrive on scene (police, fire, EMS). (Click here to read more)

FRTP is a 56-hour course and will start on April 11, 18, 25 and May 2, 9, 16, 23 2010 (7 Sundays)

Venue of the First Responder Training Program is the Hospital of the Infant Jesus Auditorium (6th Floor) Laong Laan cor. Lacson St. Manila.

Training Fee: 1800 pesos for the entire course. Certificate upon completion

Training course coverage:
- Wider topics on Soft-tissue injuries
- Muscolo-skeletal injuries
- Emergency childbirth
- Advance airway management
- Incident Command System
- Patient Assessment

The Fire Emergency Paramedic Assistance Group (F.E.P.A.G.), a volunteer fire EMS and rescue group initiated the First Responders Training to various volunteer fire brigades which then led to the formation of formal EMS system. For the 13th consecutive year, the F.E.P.A.G. First Responders Course will accept participants from various civic organizations and communication groups.

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The Problem with Philippine Government Fire Fighters

Baclaran fire - Galleria Baclaran Mall which lasted almost more than a day.

***all the facts contained here are either heard from the news or from word-of-mouth.

I will go directly to my point. What caused that fire to reach more than 24 hours?

The Answer: problem with DILG and the local fire department.

The Issue: Government firefighters asking for money before doing their jobs. (unless, that is part of their job, to ask money before putting out the fire, then, I rest my case.)

The Solution: Teach them a lesson and burn their houses then let their fellow government fire fighters ask money from them before putting it out. (So they will know the feeling)

This has been a problem eons ago. This is also what happened on the Baclaran fire last week which lasted for more than 24 hours. A quick look on what happened...

- The fire at Baclaran was spreading fast.
- The Govt fire fighters did not increase the fire alarm level. (Stayed at 2nd alarm as reported, even if the fire alarm was supposed to be increased to call out nearby fire departments to help.)

Why? Many people are puzzled on why the government fire fighters didn't they want to raise the alarm. One government fire chief was interviewed by ABS-CBN news and said that, they didn't want to raise the alarm quickly.

Here is the scenario, one house started to burn and after a few minutes of burning, it bursts into flames and the whole building collapsed with the danger of affecting nearby establishments. Will they still not raise the alarm because are afraid of raising the alarm too fast? thats *BS*

As also reported and as always, the obvious reason they dont want to raise the alarm was to ask money.
This is what happens when the alarm raises: At a certain alarm level, volunteers in the vicinity are the ones only allowed to respond to the fire scene. then the higher the level, more area volunteers can now also respond.

So, why don't they want the volunteers to respond?

Answer: they cant ask for money anymore because someone else, the volunteers does what they are suppose to be doing and don't ask for money. doing so, the govt fire fighters will not get money. fire will be put out. they will be going home empty handed. or should i say, empty pocketed.

guys. this is real. this is whats happening here. imagine, the house is already burning and yet, they ask for money.

***by the way, if you dont offer/give them money, what they will say is, they are out of water. or worst, they will block the frontage of the burning vicinity so the volunteers cant put it out.

THIS IS REAL. We should let everybody know what is happening.

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Govt Should Upgrade Fire Fighting Units!

I took that photo when I arrived...

Volunteer Firefighters work by heart. No pay, No schedules. Round the clock. Unlike Govt, which depend on their pay. They even lack equipment. Government should address this issue.

Last night, I responded to a fire at around 10pm in cubao. When I arrived, it was still small. After a while, the alarm was raised to 5th alarm. (Normally, from 1st, 2nd then 3rd....) after a few more minutes, it was raised to Alpha.

Lets just pray for the Fire Victims.


At least 500 families face a bleak Christmas after a fire of still undetermined origin razed their shanties in Quezon City Thursday night, a radio report said.

Radio dzBB reported Friday morning that many of the displaced families were brought to the Bagong Buhay Health Center following the fire, where an 80-year-old resident suffered burns.

The injured resident was initially identified as Pompeyo Genove, who was rushed to a nearby hospital. No other casualties were reported as of 7 a.m. Friday.

Local village officials said the families need food, clothing and other basic goods as they lost their belongings in the fire.

As of Friday morning, P. Tuazon Street remained closed to traffic as local residents cleaned it up.

The fire, which started at 9:43 p.m. Thursday, reached Task Force Charlie before firefighters finally declared it "out" at 3 a.m. Friday.

Initial investigation showed the fire hit several shanties made of light materials at Century Compound in Tagumpay Village in Quezon City.

Firefighters had a hard time battling the blaze, running out of water at one point.

The Armed Forces sent a fire truck after the winds threatened to have the fire spread towards the direction of its headquarters at Camp Aguinaldo. - GMANews.TV

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