Campground first aid
January 31st, 2008A trip to the hospital is not exactly one of the Wisconsin tourist destinations that visitors want to see, but a certain percentage of them show up there. Usually it is for minor problems such as a sprain they got while out hiking, but there are the more serious conditions that show up also. I am advocating that all campgrounds have some sort of first aid training for their employees. The training could be very basic up to EMT level depending on the park and the people. In one instance I was sitting at the campfire cooking my supper when an ambulance showed up in the campground with sirens screaming and lights flashing. An elderly woman had suffered a heart attack and had called the emergency services on her cell phone. She passes away sometime between the phone call and the arrival of the ambulance. Had the campground had someone who could have preformed CPR and had that fact published somewhere where everyone could see, that lady may have survived. Or even if only the emergency services had known that there was a first aid trained person onsite, they could have called and dispatched someone who could have gotten there earlier.