What would you do?

Well, I did it. I have my senior certificate in first aid after 16 hours of intensive, challenging training. I thanked my trainer for having the capacity and stamina to keep us performing, thinking , active and engaged for eight hours a day. There was no down time. No easy bits. It was all active learning and I came home less tired than after a normal day's work. Explain that to me. As per my other post, the thing I found most useful about this course was that we had to constantly deal with real life scenarios and employ the knowledge we were gaining to address the situations. Sometimes five minutes into it she would complicate everything because at no stage did she allow it to be easy for us. We were always working with some solid knowledge but brought to a halt by a new twist so that we had to constantly think on our feet. Great training. I feel heaps better for it except it proved, once again, I am bandage dyslexic with the big bandages for collar bone fractures and arm immobilisation. I can never get the right point to start with. So I shall have to practise and practise. But one of the dilemmas for my group was to do with a crushed foot. The three of us had had a lot of experience in life and life situations. One had worked in a factory but we hadn't actually seen a crushed foot and decided we didn't want to. We treated it with the shoe on because we decided as first aid people it would hurt the person too much to take the shoe off, or it might take skin with it and it would be better to leave that till they got to hospital. Our trainer, who had over 20 years in the nursing and front line first aid experience, said take the shoe off. I know it works better in the real life situation because you respond to clues and cues. I still think shoe on is better if an ambulance is coming. I hope I never have to deal with it.