little person CPR

Take knowledge from a handful of books, add some advice from a pediatrician, sprinkle on two inexperienced border-line adults and you get pre-parental angst nearing panic. To alleviate some of that, L and I took the infant/child CPR class this past weekend in order to alleviate some of our many fears. The class we took was at the Red Cross of Philly.

After enrolling and paying the $60 each, i quickly did a price compare to a couple other red cross offices. BTW, the red cross web sites kinda suck as each regional office manages their own:

Denver / Boulder Red Cross ~ $42
Portland Area Red Cross ~ $35

Yes Yes, i know there are regional differences in cost, but my point is that it is worth it to shop around ! I wonder if there is a "froogle" for services / classes....? hmmm

Anyways, the class was pretty good. Ran about four hours long and covered both infant and child CPR. Not that there is a tremendous difference, but obviously what you might do for a child differs from an infant and its key to know said differences. The class included videos, demos on the mannequins, actual practice on the mannequin by us, and a multiple choice final. I'm not sure how well i'll actually respond in an emergency, but i'm pretty sure i ended up with the lowest score on the exam. Not that it truly matters, everyone "passes."

With luck, I will never ever have to apply whatever I learned in the class.