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1st Dubbo Scout Group

Locality: Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia

Address: Welchman Street 2830 Dubbo, NSW, Australia

Website: http://1stdubboscouts.com

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24.01.2022 Presenting Chloe, 1st Dubbo’s Queen Scout, and our first one on the Youth Program. A natural Leader and all round go getter. Presenting Jessica our proud Australian Scout Medallion recipient. Finally receiving it after all the Covid stuff.

23.01.2022 1st Dubbo have 4 of our Leaders attending this weekend, helping make sure the Scouting youth of Dubbo can get the best experiences.

23.01.2022 Over the weekend the Venturer Unit squeezed in a Camp even if it had to be at the hall due to the weather. Learning how to repair and change bike tyres. Multiple bike rides Chalk chases galore... Hand ball games Storey Telling Campfire Played mafia Lots of Fun

21.01.2022 So one of our Venturers can’t currently attend our weekly meeting so the Venturers went to them & had an afternoon tea catch up.

21.01.2022 Tonight our Venturer Unit got out and about with a sunset hike around Mount Arthur. We couldn’t have picked a better evening for it, the weather was perfect.

15.01.2022 Don’t forget to come visit us from 3:00pm at Elston Park for our Founders Day Celebrations. We are also planning on going live at around 3:00pm for a presentation of a Queen Scout and an Australian Scout Medallion. Look forward to seeing you there.

13.01.2022 Tonight at Venturers we were hosted by Dubbo Slot Car Racing Club for a fun night of slot cars before hitting some abseiling eLearning. Thank you for looking after us.

13.01.2022 The Please stand by folks. We are still setting up and giving people a chance to turn up.

07.01.2022 1st Dubbo’s Celebrates Founders Day. As well as a Queen Scout Presentation, an Australian Scout Medallion and two Cub Leadership badges.

04.01.2022 Some useful information I found shared by a friend. Worth a read That bite of summer has well and truly come early this year and with that heat, comes snakes. ...This article was written by Rob Timmings Rob runs a medical/nursing education business Teaching nurses, doctors and paramedics. It’s well worth the read #ECT4Health 3000 bites are reported annually. 300-500 hospitalisations 2-3 deaths annually. Average time to death is 12 hours. The urban myth that you are bitten in the yard and die before you can walk from your chook pen back to the house is a load of rubbish. While not new, the management of snake bite (like a flood/fire evacuation plan or CPR) should be refreshed each season. Let’s start with a Basic overview. There are five genus of snakes that will harm us (seriously) Browns, Blacks, Adders, Tigers and Taipans. All snake venom is made up of huge proteins (like egg white). When bitten, a snake injects some venom into the meat of your limb (NOT into your blood). This venom can not be absorbed into the blood stream from the bite site. It travels in a fluid transport system in your body called the lymphatic system (not the blood stream). Now this fluid (lymph) is moved differently to blood. Your heart pumps blood around, so even when you are lying dead still, your blood still circulates around the body. Lymph fluid is different. It moves around with physical muscle movement like bending your arm, bending knees, wriggling fingers and toes, walking/exercise etc. Now here is the thing. Lymph fluid becomes blood after these lymph vessels converge to form one of two large vessels (lymphatic trunks)which are connected to veins at the base of the neck. Back to the snake bite site. When bitten, the venom has been injected into this lymph fluid (which makes up the bulk of the water in your tissues). The only way that the venom can get into your blood stream is to be moved from the bite site in the lymphatic vessels. The only way to do this is to physically move the limbs that were bitten. Stay still!!! Venom can’t move if the victim doesn’t move. Stay still!! Remember people are not bitten into their blood stream. In the 1980s a technique called Pressure immobilisation bandaging was developed to further retard venom movement. It completely stops venom /lymph transport toward the blood stream. A firm roll bandage is applied directly over the bite site (don’t wash the area). Technique: Three steps: keep them still Step 1 Apply a bandage over the bite site, to an area about 10cm above and below the bite. Step 2: Then using another elastic roller bandage, apply a firm wrap from Fingers/toes all the way to the armpit/groin. The bandage needs to be firm, but not so tight that it causes fingers or toes to turn purple or white. About the tension of a sprain bandage. Step 3: Splint the limb so the patient can’t walk or bend the limb. Do nots: Do not cut, incise or suck the venom. Do not EVER use a tourniquet Don’t remove the shirt or pants - just bandage over the top of clothing. Remember movement (like wriggling out of a shirt or pants) causes venom movement. DO NOT try to catch, kill or identify the snake!!! This is important. In hospital we NO LONGER NEED to know the type of snake; it doesn’t change treatment. 5 years ago we would do a test on the bite, blood or urine to identify the snake so the correct anti venom can be used. BUT NOW... we don’t do this. Our new Antivenom neutralises the venoms of all the 5 listed snake genus, so it doesn’t matter what snake bit the patient. Read that again- one injection for all snakes! Polyvalent is our one shot wonder, stocked in all hospitals, so most hospitals no longer stock specific Antivenins. Australian snakes tend to have 3 main effects in differing degrees. Bleeding - internally and bruising. Muscles paralysed causing difficulty talking, moving & breathing. Pain In some snakes severe muscle pain in the limb, and days later the bite site can break down forming a nasty wound. Allergy to snakes is rarer than winning lotto twice. Final tips: not all bitten people are envenomated and only those starting to show symptoms above are given antivenom. Did I mention to stay still. ~Rob Timmings Kingston/Robe Health Advisory #vrarescue #snakebite

02.01.2022 Tonight 1st Dubbo Venturers are learning the finer art of painting.