Pulse Oximeter attached while playing Monopoly Deal

We've been addicted to Monopoly deal for a couple of weeks now. This time, we decided to use our new gadget with it... a Pulse Oximeter!

I can now scientifically sense if the other player is winning or losing! hahaha!

Kidding aside, it's my brothers gadget to aid him in his first-responder (paramedic) like volunteer endeavors.

Cheftonio
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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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Extortion in the baclaran blaze, transferred to volunteers.

The issue is getting bigger. More people are hiding and saving their ass at the same time blaming others.

MANILA, Philippines -- Two Filipino-Chinese volunteer firefighting groups strongly denied on Monday morning allegations of extortion by their members during the January 3 fire that hit a shopping mall in Baclaran.

Fire Marshall Johnny Yu said the groups were well funded by the Filipino-Chinese community, especially the Federation of Filipino Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industries Inc. (FFCCCII).

Two female workers at a stall of the gutted Baclaran Galleria shopping mall came forward during the press conference to say that a firefighter clad in navy blue had refused to open their stall even he had been given the key.

Yu said the unidentified firefighter should have opened the door to the stall because he already had the authority to do so. BFP firefighters wear blue while volunteer groups wear orange gear.

from INQ7

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Volunteers are really well funded and they work without pay in other words, for FREE and VOLUNTARILY.

As all people can see, the evidence that those groups are well-funded can be seen in the trucks they are driving, the equipments and the man power present in those situations.

They work for free because, it is their hobby or they just want to help. Nobody joins those group to earn money. You know why? to be a volunteer fire fighter, you need to pay yearly dues! Imagine, working without pay and paying to work/help. this is the complete opposite of government fire fighters where they get paid to do their job.

Government lacks Fire equipments. Only very few has complete lineup of equipments. Government uses peoples taxes but Volunteers use group funds contributed by the members and sponsors.

Are they just envious or just plain angry because they cannot execute their "SOP" properly?

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