{"id":635,"date":"2021-07-01T15:03:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T13:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roladesocietalblog.com\/?p=635"},"modified":"2021-07-01T15:03:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T13:03:29","slug":"it-could-have-been-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roladesocietalblog.com\/?p=635","title":{"rendered":"It could have been you"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Football mania, here we go again.  My, my, how can I resist it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, I can\u2019t resist watching and talking about the\n51 games of 24 national teams vying for the 2021 European Football Championship\ntrophy (simply known as the UEFA Euro, scheduled initially in July last year\nbut was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, it is not the focus of this article. On 12\nJune 2021, Christian Eriksen collapsed during his Danish team\u2019s match against\nFinland. According to media reports, the referee acted quickly by alerting\nmedical staff, who administered promptly cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) treatment\nand took him to the nearest hospital in Copenhagen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CPR involves uninterrupted chest compressions of 100\nto 120 a minute until paramedics arrive. It is a lifesaving technique necessary\nin emergencies, such as a heart attack or near-drowning experience. Although it\ncan be done by untrained bystanders and first responders, I\u2019m unsure of being able\nto do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last September, on my way from work, I saw a man lying on a cemented ground. When I asked him what was wrong, I got no response. He didn\u2019t move and kept his eyes shut.  It was one of those \u201cLaw of Murphy\u201d days; my phone had run out of battery. I ran across the road and stopped a jogger, urging him to call the Service d\u2019aide m\u00e9dicale urgente (SAMU – 15). \u201cThe man there isn\u2019t breathing, and my phone is dead\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He did not call emergency, but he came with me,\ndashing to the seemingly lifeless creature. He, too, did not apply CPR.\nHowever, he checked if the man was conscious or unconscious by tapping him on\nhis shoulder and asked him loudly, “Are you OK?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He fumbled in his pocket then dialled a number. It probably was less than 15 minutes since he had called the SAMU, but it felt like ages.  When I heard the loud siren coming from the eastern part of the city, I decided to leave, as I was late for my appointment with the City Hall to renew my French identity card. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Should I have applied CPR on him? The difference between doing something and nothing could be someone’s life, and I wish CPR was included in all school curricula in all nations. As well, all companies should have this in their staff workshop, training or development programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the heart stops, our bodies do not get\noxygen-rich blood, which causes brain damage in a few minutes; thus, time is\nthe essence. The CPR can keep oxygen-rich blood flowing to the brain and other\norgans until emergency medical staff arrive and treatment is applied to restore\na normal heart rhythm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For untrained people, like me, it is primordial to\nremember the emergency number: 112 for Australia, all EU countries and some\nparts of Asia; 911 for North America and many US territories; and 999 for the\nUK and British overseas territories. It\u2019s also useful to remember the Police\u2019s (e.g.\nFrance – 17) and Fire Department\u2019s (France – 18) phone numbers, as their\ndispatchers can instruct you in the proper procedures until help arrives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, of course, there are many emergency apps that you can install on your cell\/ mobile phone. (Cell \u2013 US. Mobile \u2013 Europe. In Australia, it\u2019s \u201cmobile\u201d; but for my family and friends, it’s only “phone” because landlines have become a rare household commodity).  Phone apps are valuable when the unexpected happens, such as saving a life or surviving a disaster, and some of them are free. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(You could have been me, the man approached to help out, or the person lying on the ground)<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Football mania, here we go again.  My, my, how can I resist it? Indeed, I can\u2019t resist watching and talking about the 51 games of 24 national teams vying for the 2021 European Football Championship trophy (simply known as the UEFA Euro, scheduled initially in July last year but was postponed due to the COVID-19 … Continue reading It could have been you<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-political-cultural-economic-issues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roladesocietalblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roladesocietalblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roladesocietalblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roladesocietalblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roladesocietalblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/roladesocietalblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/roladesocietalblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roladesocietalblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roladesocietalblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roladesocietalblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}