Learn First Aid

• Section One: Introduction

  • Unit 1: What is First Aid?
  • Unit 2: Universal precautions and personal safety
  • Unit 3: How the body works

• Section Two: Basic Emergency Care

  • Unit 4: Emergency Scene Management
  • Unit 5: Casualty management and primary survey
  • Unit 6: The casualty who is not breathing normally
  • Unit 7: Choking
  • Unit 8: Wounds and bleeding
  • Unit 9: Shock
  • Unit 10: The recovery position
  • Unit 11: Head to Toe (secondary) survey
  • Unit 12: Ongoing casualty care
  • Unit 13: Moving the casualty

• Section Three: Accident Care

  • Unit 14: Near drowning
  • Unit 15: Burns and scalds
  • Unit 16: Soft tissue injuries: strains and sprains
  • Unit 17: Fractures and dislocations
  • Unit 18: Head and spinal injuries
  • Unit 19: Eye injuries
  • Unit 20: Poisoning
  • Unit 21: Bites and stings

• Section Four: Medical Emergency Care

  • Unit 22: Heart attack and angina
  • Unit 23: Stroke
  • Unit24: Fainting
  • Unit 25: Epileptic seizures
  • Unit26: Fever
  • Unit 27: Effects of heat and cold
  • Unit 28: Dehydration
  • Unit 29: Massive allergic reaction
  • Unit30: Asthma
  • Unit 31: Low blood sugar (Hypoglycaemia)
  • Unit 32: Emergency Childbirth
  • Unit 33: Common Infectious Diseases
  • Unit 34: HIV Aids

Beliefs about burns and scalds

There are many beliefs about how you should treat a burn or a scald. THESE ARE WRONG!
Some of these are:

You should put butter or fat on a burn

You should keep the area warm

You should cover a burn with urine, or with egg white or raw egg, or with toothpaste, or with ashes

You should visit a blacksmith or goldsmith or silversmith to use the bellows to extract (take out) heat and so help healing.

THESE ARE WRONG!! You should not do any of them! Have you heard of any others? Write them down
here.
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