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Last night (Thursday) I tested for my CPR certification as part of the overall EMT training I'm doing.
I did pretty good on everything except a station for one-man vertilation and chest compressions where my timing was off.
As I was doing ventilations I kept "cutting" myself on the inside of my lip with a tooth I have that has a sharp edge. I'd go down to make a seal over the mouth of the dummy and inadvertantly pinch the corner of my mouth between the dummy's face ne this sharp tooth which, after all was said and done, gave me about 14 or so little "nicks" that all closed up within moments of the skin breaking.
I was checking between attempts at the station to see that I wasn't bleeding a "lot" because of the warfarin I'm on, but I never noticed the bruise I had developed under my lower lip until my wife pointed it out when I picked her up from work later that night.
The bruise is much later now, a little over 26 hours later, but it's still there. it's the first bruise I've noticed in a few months now.
My thinking is that, with the stiff plastic that forms the face of the dummy, I was just pushing too hard to get the seal needed for the CPR and it left some bruising, but I wondered if the warfarin might have something to do with it. For the past several months I've been testing (protimes) right on the mark at my primary physicians office.
Any thoughts?
I did pretty good on everything except a station for one-man vertilation and chest compressions where my timing was off.
As I was doing ventilations I kept "cutting" myself on the inside of my lip with a tooth I have that has a sharp edge. I'd go down to make a seal over the mouth of the dummy and inadvertantly pinch the corner of my mouth between the dummy's face ne this sharp tooth which, after all was said and done, gave me about 14 or so little "nicks" that all closed up within moments of the skin breaking.
I was checking between attempts at the station to see that I wasn't bleeding a "lot" because of the warfarin I'm on, but I never noticed the bruise I had developed under my lower lip until my wife pointed it out when I picked her up from work later that night.
The bruise is much later now, a little over 26 hours later, but it's still there. it's the first bruise I've noticed in a few months now.
My thinking is that, with the stiff plastic that forms the face of the dummy, I was just pushing too hard to get the seal needed for the CPR and it left some bruising, but I wondered if the warfarin might have something to do with it. For the past several months I've been testing (protimes) right on the mark at my primary physicians office.
Any thoughts?
