BLS Weekend

Every couple of years, I had to attend a refresher course on Basic Life Support and pass a quiz at the end of it to collect a certificate. This time it would be this weekend. Saturday afternoon after clinic to be exact.

At least I didn't have to attend the full course again - over three days. I just needed to turn up on the afternoon, sit for a short lecture for revision and then exam. Hopefully it would be as straight forward as that.

But, before that, I had to do a bit of reading. Oh dear ...

Mornings at the College

In the last couple of mornings, things got a bit hectic withe having to drive over to the Sime Darby Nursing College after my ward rounds to attend a Basic Life Support course. Thank God, it was done now.

The College is about 5 km away, and one could reach there in 10 minutes if the traffic was kind. Unfortunately, the turn off Kewajipan into KESAS was legendary. The traffic Police would hold us for 10 minutes at a time to let the traffic flow. I was unlucky to be caught behind the queue and the wait was excruciating!

The course itself was well-run, and things were rather awkward with me being the only Doctor there. I did learn a few new things though as recently, the American College had updated their CPR algorithms. Reading about it was clearly different from cruelly sitting through a course, complete with practical and exams.

So, now, I was done. Clinic, then ward round before packing for Melaka tomorrow.