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Thu Dec 21 17:05:40 GMT 2006

In a message dated 12/21/2006 3:22:23 AM Central Standard Time,  
tangentcarrot at hotmail.com writes:

What  kind of training for lay rescures is available in your community?
What do  you teach them?
Do you teach diffrent ABC's for trauma care? (no  CPR?)
What do you say about spinal immobalization during airway  managment?
How do you manage myths?

Here's one of the efforts of the US Government in this direction:

http://www.trauma.org/index.php/community/list/url/http:list.ftech.net/pipermail/trauma-list/2006-December/_https://www.citizencorps.gov/cert/_ (https://www.citizencorps.gov/cert/) 

Community Emergency Response Teams are prehaps a bit more than you were  
thinking about....there's also The American (National) Red Cross  programs, as 
well as the (US) National Safety Council (Green Cross) which  offers the 
following through many industrial employers among other places:

http://www.trauma.org/index.php/community/list/url/http:list.ftech.net/pipermail/trauma-list/2006-December/_https://secure.nsc.org/onlinecart/product.cfm?id=1111_ 
(https://secure.nsc.org/onlinecart/product.cfm?id=1111) 

ck
Charles S. Krin, DO FAAFP 

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