Journal
What has changed, and when.
The catalogue of this site is never dated: a catalogue is not a news feed. The real dates live here, and in the date of check on every situation.
The source guidelines re-read in full
- The project's three public guideline documents have been re-read from their complete text, and nine points of meaning change in the game. The tourniquet is now taught on a limb only, an arm or a leg. Stroke has six signs in the guidelines, and the appearance of a single one calls for the alert. Choking now separates the cases where the compression goes on the chest and not on the abdomen: a baby, a pregnant woman, a casualty whose abdomen cannot be encircled, and someone bedridden.
- On the road, the warning triangle no longer costs time: what is taught is the order, hazard lights then jacket then triangle, and the ministry page the situation cites does prescribe the triangle. The yellow verdict is called “Not the best choice”: it ranks a choice, it does not joke.
- Reading the page aloud speaks the language of the page. The full-screen verdict keeps the keyboard inside it, the checkpoint is announced to accessibility tools, and the rhythm test offers an explicit way out to anyone who cannot press.
- The first visit now downloads only the language being read, and the game stays fully playable with no connection. Every page carries a security policy that the browser itself enforces: the absence of any request to another site is no longer our word, it is a refusal by the browser.
The audience figures live on odersa.org
- The page that counted the use of this site leaves it. The audience figures for every service of the association are read in one single place, on odersa.org, measured by the host at the edge of the network, with no cookie and no tracker. The old addresses redirect, they do not die.
- The notice “Here's how you know”, at the top of every page, says exactly what is measured, in every language of the site: no measurement tool is embedded in these pages, nothing is measured on the visitor's device, no request goes anywhere else.
- The counters of the game are still served as open data: anyone can recount them from their own page.
The guidance for drowning and for babies follows the national recommendations
- For a drowning casualty who has stopped breathing, the game now teaches five initial rescue breaths before the compressions: that is what the civil safety recommendations and the Croix-Rouge française write, the arrest of a drowning person being caused by the lack of oxygen.
- The situation of a baby choking gains a scene: the loss of consciousness, which calls for cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Its card goes to nine rules, sourced to the PSC1 2024 syllabus and to the Croix-Rouge française.
- Every page now recalls that the numbers taught are France's, that 112 applies across the whole European Union, and that elsewhere you need to know your own country's emergency number. Seven languages, the same reminder.
- The warning on the cards enters the markup that voice assistants read: it now comes before the first step of every procedure.
The site is online
- Before Help Arrives opens at avantlessecours.odersa.org: 20 emergency situations to play, free, with no account and no data collection.
- The medical content was read twice by an independent cross-check before opening: 69 citations of public sources verified, each with its exact passage.
- The site installs like an application and the whole game replays with no connection once it has been visited: the day you need it, there is not always a connection.
- Every screen width from 320 pixels up to a desktop computer has been checked, and the game is fully playable from the keyboard.
The 20 situations are playable
- Ten more situations, and the board is complete: stroke, a baby choking, a convulsive seizure, low blood sugar, carbon monoxide poisoning, a road crash with several casualties, drowning, electric shock, heatstroke, severe bleeding and the tourniquet.
- Level 2, “Keeping your head”, and level 3, “Complex situations”, are open in full.
- Every situation cites its public sources with the exact passage that carries the action, and its date of check. The guidelines used are those of the French Ministry of the Interior, the Croix-Rouge française, the national health insurance body, the fire and rescue services and the departmental fire and rescue authorities.
- Two actions were deliberately left out for want of a clear public source, and they are flagged as such rather than guessed.
The cardiac device, in play
- Two more situations: cardiac arrest and the defibrillator. They open level 2, “Keeping your head”.
- Chest compression becomes a rhythm test: thirty seconds to hold between 100 and 120 compressions per minute, with fatigue making the rate slip, a gauge for the eye and a sound guide that can be switched off.
- The defibrillator dictates its five instructions one by one and waits for them to be done, like the real one. An instruction badly followed costs time, and it says it again.
- The pages of the site around the game: the cards to print, the dashboard of what has been learnt, for trainers, frequently asked questions, licence, credits, press kit, contact, site map.
Level 1, complete
- Seven situations in “First steps”: calling 15, the recovery position, an adult choking, heavy bleeding, the kitchen burn, being taken ill and having to judge, protect first above all.
- The staging moves indoors: the lamp becomes the source of light, the polished floor carries the reflections, dust in the beam replaces the mist.
- The complete soundscape, synthesised entirely in the browser: no audio file is downloaded, and the sound is switched off with one button.
The first playable situation
- The motorbike crash, with its signature trap: the helmet that is not taken off.
- The scenario engine, the home page, the art direction, and the five automatic checks that refuse to publish an action without its source.
Every situation carries its own date of source check, readable at the bottom of its card and in its open data. The whole content is rechecked online every six months: first aid guidelines move.