Lesson video

Hello and welcome to your second lesson in the first stage unit, Recovery Position.

I'm Mr. Clarke, and I'm going to be your teacher for today's lesson.

What a privilege it is to be here with you today.

As we've already discovered in the last lesson, learning first aid and knowing what to do in an emergency saves lives.

So what are we waiting for? Let's get on with today's lesson.

To be able to fully participate in today's lesson, you are going to need an exercise book or piece of paper and a pen.

If you need to go and quickly find that before we start pause the video now and press play when you're ready to begin again.

By now you've already started your learning journey for today by taking part in the intro quiz.

I hope you enjoy completing it as much as I did.

During the rest of today's lesson we will cover, what the recovery position is for, give you a step-by-step guide on how you do it, and check our learning in a recap, by which point you'll then be ready to take the exit quiz, which all of you absolutely smashed last lesson.

Let's see if we can do it again.

Today our key words are first aid, which remember refers to help given to a sick or injured person until medical treatment is available.

Unconscious, which is when someone is not awake or responsive to their environment.

I'm hoping right now, all of us are conscious.

I want to check though, before we go any further in today's lesson, that everybody is conscious and responsive.

So I'm going to show you three images of someone laying on the floor.

I would like to see if you perhaps already know what somebody put in a recovery position correctly would look like.

Pause the screen now and look closely at these images.

Decide which one you think is showing somebody in the recovery position.

Press play when you decided.

Worked it out? Let's see if you are correct.

It's picture number, three.

Well done if you were correct, and don't worry if you weren't, because by the end of today, you are going to be a recovery position expert, guaranteed.

We would put someone into a recovery position if they are unconscious, but are breathing and have no other life-threatening conditions.

But, why do we do it? Well, putting someone into the recovery position will keep that airway clear and open.

Remember, last lesson we spoke about how important keeping the airway open is.

It also ensures that any vomit or fluid won't cause them to chock.

Hang on a moment.

My mind's gone bit blank.

I need your help.

Remind me, is it true that unconscious is when someone is awake and is responsive to their surroundings, or is that false? Can you point and tell me if that's true or false? Is it true that unconscious means when someone is awake and responsive or is that, have you decided yet? Point to your screen and tell me then in three, two, one.

Of course, it false.

Unconscious is when someone is not awake or responding to their environment.

If like me, you got a bit confused, make sure you write down the definition for unconscious to help you in the future.

I think I better do the same.

Should we start learning how we actually do to recovery position then? Well, watch carefully as I go through the first few steps with you.

At this point, you might decide to make some notes or you might even want to do it alongside me with someone that's with you now.

If you are practising on someone though, remember to treat your casualty with respect and care.

The first step to putting someone into a recovery position, if it's safe to do so, put the patient lying on their back like this and kneel beside them.

You're then going to take the arm that's closest to you, which is this one here for me and I'm going to place it at a right angle beside him like this.

The next step is to get the arm that's furthest away from you, bring it across the body and put the palm onto their cheek.

The final step for this video is you're going to get the leg that's furthest away from you, and you're going to lift it up and bring it into a right angle and again, hold it there.

Did you get all that? Well before we move on, let's have a quick test.

Look at the instructions that are on your screen now.

The only problem is that they are not in the correct order.

Your task in a moment is to write them down, but in the correct order.

Pause the screen now to complete the task.

When you're finished, press play again to resume and we'll see if you were right.

Let's check our order and see if we've got them right.

Remember, if you got any wrong, don't worry about it.

Just correct your order, so you remember for next time.

Can you point and tell me then which instruction is step one? Amazing, and now which one's step two? Of course, and step three? Great.

Which means that this must be step four.

How did you do? Quickly check and make sure you've got the same that I have.

Should we learn the next steps now? Again, at this point you might decide to make some notes or if possible, do it alongside me with someone.

But if you are practising or someone, we must always remember to treat our casualty with respect and care.

Are you ready for the next steps? So still holding the arm in place there what you're now going to do in the moment is you're going to pull on this knee and put it towards you.

In doing that action this will allow the patient to roll over on the side of which you're pulling them towards.

Now you don't worry about their head because their head will be supported by their arm and that'll stop them rolling by the right arm that you've created in the first step.

So let me show you what happens.

So I roll him over, and the patient is now like this.

The final thing we're going to do here is make sure that the leg is at a nice right angle, and that the airway is open.

We do this by simply lifting up the head as we learned in the first lesson.

At this point, we're going to stay with our patient until help arrives.

While I was writing down the instructions for step five to nine, I got a little bit confused and I think I wrote down the wrong instructions.

Can you spot which two instructions are not part of steps five to nine.

Pause the screen and when you found them, press play to resume.

Point to the screen of the two incorrect answers found.

Are you ready? Point to one now.

Oh no, I must have put my tea order in there.

Much better though.

Of course there were two, was there? So where's the other one.

Can you point to the other one for me? Oh, I see, I put them down to lie on their front, which is actually not even in this section and then it shouldn't be on their front.

How should they be lying? What's that first step again? They should lie on their back.

Thank you everyone.

Before I think we can call ourselves recovery position experts, I think it's time for a recap and knowledge check.

So let's go through the steps together.

As we do this, say them along with me as well.

So first of all, we put the person on their back and kneel by their side.

Next? Next we put the arm nearest you at a right angle to their body with the palm facing up.

Then? Fold the other arm so that the hand touches the cheek nearest you and hold it in place.

Use your free hand to bend the knee furthest from you into a right angle, how have you done so far? Well, okay, do you remember the next step? Pull on the bent knee to roll the person over onto their side.

Then their arm bent should support their head and their extended arm should stop you from rolling them too far 'cause that wouldn't be good.

At this point, we must make sure that their bent leg is at a right angle.

Then, what must we make sure is open and it begins with a? We must make sure that, the airways.

Open the airway by gently tilting the head back and lifting the chin, checking nothing is blocking the airway.

Well done today, you've been absolutely amazing.

How awesome is it to think that you might one day be able to potentially save someone's life because of what you've learned in this unit so far? Next lesson we'll learn about something called CPR.

We mentioned this back in lesson one, but until then make sure to complete the exit quiz and I will see you soon, bye.