Help Me If You Can

Adventure Rider Issue #39

• Checkout
• Fit Out – Touratech Yamaha XTZ 700 Ténéré
• Holding Hands with Karen Ramsay
• Sole man with Andy Strapz
• An Interesting Week In The Andes
• 8 Blokes. 9244km. 1 Great Ride
• Touratech Compañero World 2 Suit
• Why, Brother? There’s Nothin’ Much There
• Help Me If You Can
• Two In One
• Northwest Or Bust
• Yamaha Ténére 700
• Our Island Home
• Aussie Ron Does New Zealand
• It’s what we do
• Taming Hills with Miles Davis

First aid can save lives and significantly reduce the severity of injuries, and it’s good knowledge to have. But what happens if the patient doesn’t want first aid…or any other kind of aid? What happens then?

Most riders would have had some level of instruction in administering first aid, whether it’s keeping an accident victim warm, clearing an airway or administering CPR. Usually that instruction is done in a nice, clean, controlled environment, perhaps a first-aid or ambulance station. The patient is either a mannequin or another student on the course who does their best to lie still and play injured.