After my stroke I was transferred from ICU to a new ward containing 8 beds and one was occupied by a Bo, a young boy who suffered from epilepsy. During the night he started making awful noises and I realised he was choking. I could not find my Emergency Nurse Call buzzer(ENCB), so loudly called out “Sorry to disturb you guys, but can someone press their ENCB urgently?”. Very quickly a nurse appeared and hit the "crash " button, when all hell broke out, with doctors and nurses running everywhere. After the panic settled down, a doctor came over to me and said “well done; you saved Bo’s life - he had swallowed his tongue and would have choked to death” in a few more minutes !
The onlyf irst aid training I ever received was how to apply a first field dressing to a bullet wound - the 7.62 bullet makes an entry hole of about 7 mms but has an exit hole of about 7 cms, or more, depending how many bone fragments it picks up on the way!
Lucky indeed!
Those Emergency Nurse Call buzzers (ENCB) aren’t always accessible and I have come across some that don’t even work (against regulations btw).