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- From: greg@antizen.EBay.Sun.COM
- Newsgroups: rec.backcountry
- Subject: Re: FIRST-AIDS KITS
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 18:14:38 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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- In article 122440209@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM, ajs@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Alan Silverstein) writes:
- > Here's another urge to take the Red Cross CPR and first aid course. I
- > did it 3.5 years ago and just renewed it. Both times most attendees
- > were there because they "had to be" for a job or occupation. Which is a
- > real shame because the course is *great*. Not only do you learn
- > specific skills; you also learn a feeling of preparedness that (I hope)
- > will keep you calm and effective in an emergency.
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- While I certainly wouldn't EVER want to sound like I was discouraging
- anyone from taking Red Cross CPR and first aid, I would like to express
- my opinion that no level of American Red Cross first aid training is
- worth very much in the backcountry.
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- All Red Cross training revolves around response by emergency medical services.
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- Greg
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