Medicine Woman

Sutchering a wound!

Learning Wilderness Medical Training meant starting from the beginning. That is we learnt our A B C (Airway, Breathing and Circulation checks to an accident victim). As we became more advanced we became DR ABC (Danger and Response ABC - i.e. check your environment before approaching the victim and see if your victim responds).

After 3 days of playing dead outdoors, etc we were let loose on a lump of pork!

Now for a real person. We practised muscular injections on each other, and the grand finale was to cannulate each other.

My tools and my brave subject

First was to numb the area, left for a couple of minutes then followed by the cannulation

....and my subject was happy with the result (well she looks happy in the photos and she didn't faint unlike a couple of folks around us!).

I am now certified to wield a needle or two :o)