BMT: Compulsory CPR Lesson Teaching
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SOLDIERS joining the Singapore Armed Forces from next year will be given life-saving lessons to help out in medical emergencies.
All 20,000 recruits taken in every year will be taught to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to manually revive a person with breathing problems or a heart attack.
They will also learn how to operate an automated external defibrillator (AED), a machine which can jump-start the heart by evaluating its rhythm and jolting it into action again with an electric current.
The SAF has asked commercial companies to propose how they would hold half-day classes for soldiers and at what cost. The closing date for this request, which was issued last month, has now since passed.
At present, SAF officers, specialists and medical personnel are given such training. Extending it to all recruits would mean that the entire force is equipped to handle such emergencies.
Defence Ministry spokesman Darius Lim said the move is part of the SAF's plan to modernise its medical corps, and the training will 'enhance the proficiency of servicemen when rendering first aid'.
Doctors interviewed told The Straits Times that Mindef's moves would increase the survival chances of a soldier who suffers cardiac arrest while training.
They said a delay of every minute reduces a person's chances of survival by 7 per cent to 10 per cent.
Since 1995, at least seven full-time national servicemen (NSFs) have died as a result of cardiac arrest.
In 2003, army medics began carrying AEDs to all strenuous training activities that carry the risk of drowning or heart trauma.
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I tot CPR was already being taught in BMT? unless they took it out again...
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Originally posted by hisoka:
I tot CPR was already being taught in BMT? unless they took it out again...
today teach..tom cant rem liao ma..
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You will be issued a CPRC card/cert on the spot after you pass, and valid for 1 year.
Every year need to go for refresher course to renew your card, that's what happen to me when we took it in Sispec.
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learn today, forget tml.
unless we are medics or they do this training once every fornight/month, if not no one will remember the procedure..
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Originally posted by R3SsH|n:
learn today, forget tml.
unless we are medics or they do this training once every fornight/month, if not no one will remember the procedure..
Agreed.
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Originally posted by R3SsH|n:
learn today, forget tml.
unless we are medics or they do this training once every fornight/month, if not no one will remember the procedure..
Lifeguards will. At least I do.
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2009 intake no need learn CPR?
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Originally posted by Day Dreamer:
2009 intake no need learn CPR?
Nope.
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Originally posted by Forbiddensinner:
Nope.
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Originally posted by nightzip:
You will be issued a CPRC card/cert on the spot after you pass, and valid for 1 year.
Every year need to go for refresher course to renew your card, that's what happen to me when we took it in Sispec.
So what's the purpose of the card?
1 day after the card expires, you cannot do CPR to try save somebody?
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Originally posted by hisoka:
I tot CPR was already being taught in BMT? unless they took it out again...
I remembered they did teach...but it was kinda brief...think this one should be a thorough lesson...literally every recruit would be a quarter medic by then?
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Originally posted by noahnoah:
today teach..tom cant rem liao ma..
same for me too.
Anyway, what you learn in bmt is 1 ear in 1 ear out never pay attention 1..
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Originally posted by charlize:
So what's the purpose of the card?
1 day after the card expires, you cannot do CPR to try save somebody?
It merely means you cannot perform medic/lifeguard duty for as your "license" has expired.
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Originally posted by charlize:
So what's the purpose of the card?
1 day after the card expires, you cannot do CPR to try save somebody?
For collection purposes
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Ooooo... they want every soldier to be able take/pick up medic kit then can revive teammate liao, so that their teammates don't die and then lose tickets for SG faction......
=X
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good to learn CPR, they should implement everyone carry a hartment as well
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Originally posted by tarutaru:
good to learn CPR, they should implement everyone carry a hartment as well
do you mean hartmann's -
Originally posted by charlize:
So what's the purpose of the card?
1 day after the card expires, you cannot do CPR to try save somebody?
when you have the card and you're in camp and see someone suffering cardiac emergency, it is a chargeable offense to not do anything. also, it protects you from prosecution should the casualty die or suffer serious injury. (under the "good samaritan law" i think) -
Learn learn learn.
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noahnoah i thought ur gonna ROD liao...y so concern about current affairs of SAF?
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i still in bmt, got learn leh,
check air way, breathing and pulse etc
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Originally posted by charlize:
So what's the purpose of the card?
1 day after the card expires, you cannot do CPR to try save somebody?
Now and then, the international commitee of resuscitation actually revise the technique. So by going through the refresher course, you're kept up to date. -
Originally posted by Xelement:
i still in bmt, got learn leh,
check air way, breathing and pulse etc
ABC.Airway, breathing, circulation.
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Originally posted by Detached:
ABC.Airway, breathing, circulation.
oh ya circulation
could not rem the "C" just now.but need practice a few times to really rem