Farmers First Aid

Rocket54

Member
Location
North Yorkshire
I am very fortunate to have been given full first aid training through Coast Guard. I have friends and colleagues that have used the Defibs and saved people.... You can see the delight in their eyes when they talk about it!.
Please all , get training , hopefully you will never need it.
Great post Robt
 

Rocket54

Member
Location
North Yorkshire
I’ve a question

Those electric heart jump start things you see on walls at some pubs and shoping centres now

How can I get one to install in our yard ? There are several businesses and a few older people about - fast access to one might just save a life one day ?
Hi Clive you can buy a reliable AED for around £2k, cheaper ones are available but its worth paying that little extra again this is something I would be interested in supplying along with training on how to use. I feel passionate about this, research suggests that for every minute defibrillation is delayed in a cardiac arrest situation the chance of survival decreases by 10%.
Children and adults should be trained in basic life support, CPR and how to use an automated external defibrillator ....."Simple things save lives".
 

Rocket54

Member
Location
North Yorkshire
Hi all you Farmers
Great work by the way and long may it continue.
I am a Paramedic with an interest in the outdoors, love playing in the woods, bushcraft etc.
I would be willing to bring any of you farmers up to speed with latest first aid skills in return for access to some woodland?
Please email me if interested [email protected]
remember "simple things save lives"
Another thing to consider here is rather like the coastguard rely on volunteers in times of emergencies the ambulance service relies on community first responders CFRs. These volunteers are trained to deal with and respond to emergencies in the local community (this could be your community), the ambulance service also provide training , equipment and and AED so its worth contacting your local ambulance service to make further enquiries.
 

Tractorstant

Member
Location
Monaco.
Hi Tractorstant
Its really interesting the responses I am getting here I feel seriously you Farmers and associated workers would benefit from some training and a standardised response first aid kit. By standardised I mean the same bag full of the same kit, all set out the same way, so if ever working on another farm the bag would be familiar if needed in an emergency? I would be happy to suggest such equipment and bag as well as costings.

Would be very interested in seeing what the costs of this kit would be. It's one thing having the kit but another being able to use it. One that would be very specific to "our" requirements.

Also i'd put my hat in the ring and say that I'd pay for your time to do a days training somewhere in Suffolk/Essex. How many could you realistically train in a group 5-10?
 

Rocket54

Member
Location
North Yorkshire
Would a mains electric fencer do the job !?!
Ha I remember whilst serving in the army on a night patrol, climbing down a stone wall I slipped and fell onto a wire between my legs.......when I put my hands onto the wire to get off I felt a strong pulse through my bits and hands.......soon after this another stronger pulse ......it then dawned on me I was on an electric fence.....not very nice !!!
 

Rocket54

Member
Location
North Yorkshire
Would be very interested in seeing what the costs of this kit would be. It's one thing having the kit but another being able to use it. One that would be very specific to "our" requirements.

Also i'd put my hat in the ring and say that I'd pay for your time to do a days training somewhere in Suffolk/Essex. How many could you realistically train in a group 5-10?
Hi Tractorstant
5-10 would be an ideal group please could I ask you email myself on [email protected] so we can discuss further , please let me get back to you with regards kit fit for your purpose...and requirements.
I would like to offer this to all farmers and associated workers how could we do this ?
 

Bobthebuilder

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
northumberland
I’ve a question

Those electric heart jump start things you see on walls at some pubs and shoping centres now

How can I get one to install in our yard ? There are several businesses and a few older people about - fast access to one might just save a life one day ?

Got 1 fitted in our yard a few months ago through local parish council and a charity foundation, actually going on a course on the 19th to learn how to use it, afaik they are self explanatory and you also need to ring 999 to get the code to open them then they talk you through how to use it
 

Bobthebuilder

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
northumberland
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This is the 1 we have [emoji298]️
 

ORRA LOON

Member
Location
Moray
They recently fitted 1 at our village hall, my wife and kids went to the training last Friday night. The instructor used my kids aged 11 and 14 to demonstrate how to use the machine and how simple it really was.
The machine talks to you and tells you exactly what to do, even repeating itself if you miss a step.
The instructor believed they were like smoke alarms, saying 20 odd years ago they were rare and people were dying from/in fires, now everyone has a smoke alarm and deaths have reduced, he hoped these machines will be everywhere in the future and reduce more early deaths.

I didn’t attend as I recently done my emergency first aid at work certificate and defibrillator training was included.
 

Rocket54

Member
Location
North Yorkshire
Hi Clive I would be more than happy to recommend a suitable kit list and will have a look and get back to you. I feel strongly that the farming community should receive training to deal with life threatening events, which would include serious bleeds, gunshot wounds, cardiac arrest, traumatic amputation and medical emergencies given the nature of your work and rural locations. Did you feel that this is something that you and your colleagues would be interested in doing?
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HI Clive and all
Hope you have had a good and productive Summer?
More than happy to put together a suitable, standardised and bespoke immediate aid kit list for farmers, also happy to put together some training on how and when to use the kit, subject to costs etc? Please let me know your thoughts.
 

Rocket54

Member
Location
North Yorkshire
Hi Clive I would be more than happy to recommend a suitable kit list and will have a look and get back to you. I feel strongly that the farming community should receive training to deal with life threatening events, which would include serious bleeds, gunshot wounds, cardiac arrest, traumatic amputation and medical emergencies given the nature of your work and rural locations. Did you feel that this is something that you and your colleagues would be interested in doing?
HI Clive and all
Hope you have had a good and productive Summer?
More than happy to put together a suitable, standardised and bespoke immediate aid kit list for farmers, also happy to put together some training on how and when to use the kit, subject to costs etc? Please let me know your thoughts.
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Rocket54

Member
Location
North Yorkshire
Google is your friend, not very dear for the good it may do one day.
Think some training might be handy to go with it though, not quite as simple as attaching to a twitching corpse and firing him back into action I'm told.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=b...droid-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
Edit, I've no woods either, if I had your be welcome.
I often wonder how you chaps de stress and get your head right, after some of the jobs you have to do.

Hi David
apologies for the delay in response I hope this finds you well
great reply thank you
 

Rocket54

Member
Location
North Yorkshire
what is clear here is :-
1) you farmers could do with some training on what to do in a life threatening emergency
2) there is no woodland in the UK , no wonder global warming!!!
 

Yale

Member
Livestock Farmer
I missed this thread until now however around 4 years ago our community raised over £10000 for three defibs partially spurred on by losing two local young people under 40 to heart attacks,one my best mate and another our childminder.

I had my hair shaved off at a fundraising event which was well attended.

It really brought everyone together to make a difference.:love:
 

Barleymow

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Ipswich
I’ve a question

Those electric heart jump start things you see on walls at some pubs and shoping centres now

How can I get one to install in our yard ? There are several businesses and a few older people about - fast access to one might just save a life one day ?
our parish council had just bought one
 

ajcc

Member
Livestock Farmer
In a heart attack situation on farm, I for one would certainly try a few jolts with electric fencer unit...two clips across the chest. I’ve been knocked over twice in last six months by inadvertent fence shocks......other essential is a belt for tourniquet service. Oh and a phone with charge and a signal in your pocket.
(I have done efaw with forestry training in last 12 months.)
 

Danllan

Member
Location
Sir Gar / Carms
A really good thread that I missed before; this subject really is a no-brainer and is just about the least controversial topic one could think of.

I've kept up my first aid training since I left the Army in the mid nineties and, in that quarter century, have only had to use it three times for serious things. But... two of those may have been life-saving and in one case my mother was the casualty.

Defib's are a must. I've never used one or seen one used outside of a hospital, but a fellow from a couple of villages away had his life saved only a couple of months after one was first put up in that village last year.

I think that there should be a publicly funded Defib' in every community in the UK - watch that be taken up as a Private Member's Bill by any MP with an eye to future success. (y)
 

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