Originally Posted by
theddo
Every year training? Wow, that is way less training than most nurses get without actually attending any classes. And about the same amount of training hospital staff are required to pass before being allowed to work each year.
And an AED isn't exactly difficult to use, which is the point of having them everywhere these days. The difficult part is deciding when to shock and when to wait, and none of those decisions are made by BA crew.
Do the planes carry adrenaline and cordarone? Are you trained on placing an intra-osseous needle to administer those drugs? No? Then you aren't really following best practice.
I think you are completely misunderstanding the conversation that has been taking place in this thread.
One of the posters asked why the cabin crew would not continue to serve drinks if there was a nurse and a Doctor onboard.
I explained that CPR is done by the three cabin crew or more. Medical staff may not be familiar with our equipment. We are trained to use the particular equipment on our aircraft and know where it is and will be more familiar with it than someone that has never used it before. We have an action plan that kicks in if we have a casualty. We don't have time to ask if a Doctor is onboard if someone needs CPR. Obviously anyone can use it, I could use most publicly held Defibrulators too, but a Doctor would be better placed to assist with other aspects.
Doctors and Nurses are very valuable because they can administer a lot of our drugs that obviously cabin crew are unable to and Doctors of course can help diagnose and are obviously great to have onboard.
No one is claiming that a cabin crew member is more trained than a Doctor, obviously not but they are trained and much more familiar with the particular Defibrulators carried on our aircraft.
Most flights don't conviniently have a Doctor onboard.