Interactive Displays Information

Youth and Road Trauma Forum 2008 Interactive display briefs

Ambulance Service: Staff from the Ambulance Service of NSW will be on hand to answer any questions you may have about the Ambulance Service and can provide you with information on how to call for assistance in a medical emergency and the type of information you will need to provide to 000 ambulance call takers.

The Ambulance Service will also be distributing a brochure containing information on what to do if you, or someone you know, witnesses or is involved in a traumatic event. The brochure outlines the type of feelings you may experience after witnessing an incident and provides tips on how to help yourself and others, including telephone numbers for community support agencies.

Staff from our recruitment unit will be happy to discuss recruitment opportunities, including advice on appropriate tertiary education courses in pre-hospital care and first aid and safety demonstrations will be provided by one of our motorcycle paramedics.

Ambulance stand

Emergency Department: The Emergency Department will provide some insight into what happens when a patient is brought into the ED following a motor vehicle crash. A slide show presentation will provide background to the processes involved in the care of the patient. There will be a demonstration of some of the interventions that need to be performed to safely care for a trauma patient. These will include :

Fitting of a cervical collar
Moving a patient with a suspected spinal cord injury
Protecting the airway in a trauma patient
Splinting a fractured limb
Life saving interventions such as cardio-pulmonary resuscitation and defibrillation.

Community Drug Action Team: Community Drug Action Teams are funded through NSW Health and are aimed at reducing harm associated with alcohol and drug use at a local community level. The information stall will be manned by Community Drug Action Team Members from across Sydney who will be able to answer any questions relating to specific drug and alcohol and support services around Sydney. We will have Drug and Alcohol information from NSW Health including Smart Cards and Club Drug Safety Cards, fact sheets and other general information. We will also have some non government service informaton and Fatal Vision Goggles

Australian Red Cross Blood Service: Young Bloods – Saving lives together

As part of the Club Red program, "Young Bloods" encourage young Australians to get a group of people together and donate blood.

Because blood has a short shelf life we need people to donate regularly. So you and your school can truly make a difference by helping us collect the 21,000 blood donation required each week.

You can make a difference to 3 people’s lives

3 is the magic number

1 in 3 people will need blood in their lifetime
Every donation can help save up to 3 lives

Donors can give blood every 3 months

Visit the ARCBS Stall and find out more … …..

Who can give blood
Blood donation process
Where your blood donation is used
Why you should give blood
Where you can give blood
Different types of blood and blood products and their usage
Group donations and Courtesy bus service
How can your School join Club Red Programme
Any many more……

Careflight: Since 1986 NRMA CareFlight has provided the people of NSW with one of the world's most advanced and medically proficient, rapid-response emergency helicopter and medical retrieval services.

Unlike any other air medical service in Australia, only CareFlight employs its own specialist doctors and holds teaching accreditation with the three medical colleges covering the critical care fields of Anaesthetics, Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care.

CareFlight medical teams are able to respond by helicopter, road ambulance and fixed wing air ambulance aircraft, depending on the circumstances.

At the Acer Arena, CareFlight will have doctors and paramedics on hand demonstrating the various life saving methods used at roadside or industrial accidents or in the canyons of the Blue Mountains. Featured will be our

Sim-Man, a $35,000 dummy that is used to train our medical staff. Sim-Man breathes, bleeds and screams!

More than 1,200 critically ill and injured patients are treated or transported each year by NRMA CareFlight with almost 14,000 patients treated over the past 19 years.

Organ and Tissue Donation: The organ and tissue donation interactive stand will give you all the information you need to know about multi-organ donation and tissue donation. Present at the stand will be donor coordinators from SWAHS and the NSW Lion's Eye Bank.

Come and work through the 5 stations that will help you learn more about organ and tissue donation, answer the simple quiz and you’ll go into the draw to win 1 of 3 MP3 players.

You will also be able to speak with recipients of organs and corneas and ask them first hand what their situation has been like. Come and have a chat, and go away with lots of information and goodies to take home.

Police: Our stall will display 2 police cars. We will have a LIDAR set up for people to view. A LIDAR is what police use to monitor high speeds. We will also have a Breathalyzer kit that people can use. The beer goggles will be used as an interactive display where we will play games with people wearing the goggles and trying to walk a straight line. I will have police stickers, fridge magnets and tattoos.

NSW Fire Brigade: The NSW Fire Brigade will be on hand to answer questions and display some of the equipment needed to carry out fire fighting and rescue.

NRMA Safer Driving: Safer Driving will have a remote controlled car obstacle course. You have the chance to complete the course and win great prizes of driving school vouchers for on-road tuition with one of our schools. Show us your Safer Driving skills!

NRMA Vehicle & Road Safety: This area will provide you with heaps of practical information on all the key things that you need to know when buying, driving and maintaining your first car.

Buying a safe used car:How can you tell the difference between a car that looks good but will not be good for your wallet? Stop by the Ford Festiva and learn some important tips that will save you money.

Buying a new car:There is heaps of stuff to think about when buying a new car and safety for you and your mates in the case of an accident is one key thing. Come and check out our information on new cars and see footage of cars being crashed to learn which is the safest choice in your price range.

You have a car. Great but how do you look after it? Tyres are important !! Yet most people know so little about them... so come and learn some information about these most important and much forgotten bits of your car.

Car maintenance 101. Stop by and learn the basics of car maintenance. It will save you time and money and keep you safer on the road.

NRMA Mobile Member Centre: The Mobile Member Centre highlights all aspects of road, vehicle and driver safety. It has interactive and video software on board and will feature the current ANCAP Australian New Car Assessment Program’s crash test interactive. There are also other Road Safety interactive games Shift 2^nd Gear, RuleSmartz 4 Kidz and NRMA’s Safer Roads Saves Lives video. The MMC has a range of brochures and handouts about driver and vehicle safety for students.

NRMA Youth Membership: Free2go is NRMA's youth program which offers FREE roadside assistance to 17 & 18 year olds in any vehicle for 12 months! If you're 16, we can pre-register your details so you're ready to go by the time you turn 17! As a member of Free2go, not only are you covered for roadside assistance no matter whose car you are in, members also receive access to great competitions as well as exclusive discounts from all their favourite brands.

Volvo: A device that simulates a rollover up to 70degrees, which highlights the importance of wearing a seatbelt. There is also interactive information on truck safety.

Brain Injury Unit: For every road trauma death, eight or nine individuals will survive - two or three with brain injury. Have you ever stopped to think how a hit on the head or a car accident could change your life forever? At the Brain Injury Awareness stand in the display area you can speak with people who have experienced brain injury and live with the consequences every day of their lives. Staff from the Westmead Brain Injury Unit and the Brain Injury Association of NSW will be available to answer your questions.

Trent Driving Simulation: The Trent Driving Simulation display will include two reflex testers, which show the distance, travelled when a driver reacts to a problem such as the car in front stopping suddenly. The testers are little cars, with an accelerator and a brake that the driver sits in. They press the accelerator and watch a screen in front, which has a picture of a car on it with brake lights. When the brake lights come on they have to take their foot off the accelerator and put it on the brake. The time it takes to do that is measured in meters travelled. The point of the exercise is to emphasize the 3-second following rule and always leave enough space between themselves and the vehicle in front. The good thing about the machines is that they don't need much explaining and large numbers of people can get a go.

We will also have a computer and screen running where we will give hints and tips on learning to drive, along with advice from our staff, who will be there. We will give each person a folder containing tips for safe driving and information about speeding, alcohol and fatigue.

Subaru Car Safety Features: This display will have a full size car cut away of the B9 Tribeca to show the internal workings of the vehicle, which provides for a better understanding of how each part of a car works.

In addition, there will be also be a display unit showing how Vehicle Dynamics Control (VDC) works. This is Subaru’s stability and traction assistance system on Liberty 3.OR and Outback 3.OR.

There will be representatives from the technical department to answer any queries.

St John Ambulance: St John Ambulance’s role in this forum is to make sure that the students know what to do if they are in a car crash. While St John Ambulance Australia

(NSW) does not have an active role in the prevention of youth road trauma, we feel that if basic first aid is known, then lives can be saved. Youth road trauma takes far too many young lives away and St John Ambulance Australia feels that if we can equip young people with the knowledge and tools to save a life then our purpose has been fulfilled.

St John Ambulance Australia (NSW) is a charitable organisation providing first aid training, first aid kits and first aid volunteers to the community.

Wheelchair Sports NSW: The "Arrive alive" Wheelchair Sports Roadshow began in 1998 when NSW Wheelchair Sports Association conducted the Gold Cup World Wheelchair Basketball Championships.

In 2000, the Motor Accidents Authority of NSW became naming rights sponsor of the Wheelchair Sports Roadshow under their youth banner " Arrive alive" and with that the focus of the Roadshow changed as well. Now the presenters also talk with the students about driving behaviors and the way to increase their own road safety decision-making. The physical presence and the stories the presenters have to tell have a great impact on the students. This point is further reinforced by the wheelchair basketball game where students experience what it’s like to be in a wheelchair, if only temporarily as they are able to walk away after the game.

In conclusion, the Roadshow raises awareness of wheelchair sport, creates a greater understanding of people with disabilities, encourages acceptance and integration, promotes the Association to potential new members and includes the " Arrive alive" message and associated road safety messages.