Learn First Aid

1. Section One: Introduction

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

2. Section Two: Basic Emergency Care

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

3. Section Three: Accident Care

   1. Unit 14: Near drowning
   2. Unit 15: Burns and scalds
   3. Unit 16: Soft tissue injuries: strains and sprains
   4. Unit 17: Fractures and dislocations
   5. Unit 18: Head and spinal injuries
   6. Unit 19: Eye injuries
   7. Unit 20: Poisoning
   8. Unit 21: Bites and stings

4. Section Four: Medical Emergency Care

   1. Unit 22: Heart attack and angina
   2. Unit 23: Stroke
   3. Unit24: Fainting
   4. Unit 25: Epileptic seizures
   5. Unit26: Fever
   6. Unit 27: Effects of heat and cold
   7. Unit 28: Dehydration
   8. Unit 29: Massive allergic reaction
   9. Unit30: Asthma
   10. Unit 31: Low blood sugar (Hypoglycaemia)
   11. Unit 32: Emergency Childbirth
   12. Unit 33: Common Infectious Diseases
   13. Unit 34: HIV Aids

How to use this site

You will use this book in the classroom during this course, but you can also use it afterwards, to find information or remind you about things you learned.

What is in this book

This book is divided into different sections, like Basic Emergency Care, Accident Care, Medical Emergency Care and so on. In each section, there are different units, like How the body works, Fractures and dislocations, Poisoning, and so on.

We have organised information in the same way in each unit. You can read on the next two pages what you will find in most units, and where. Inside the front cover you will find space to write in information about St. John, and also emergency phone numbers.
At the end of the book we have put in tables telling you about some of the important diseases you should know about, and space to write in other diseases that are a particular problem where you live. At the end of the book we have also put in casualty report forms that you can tear out and fill in for any casualty you help in the future.

Finding the information you want

You can find the section you want by using the contents page on page d, or the black triangles in the margin of the right-hand page. You can find the unit you want by using the contents page, or the heading right at the top of each page. You can find the information you want by looking for the box or heading to do with what you are looking for.
We have put information about different kinds of dressings, bandages and splints and how to use these together, in Unit 8 and Unit 17. We have coloured these pages grey, so that you can find them easily.
We have also made it easy to find Unit 29: Massive allergic reaction, by making the edge of the page grey so that you can find it easily. This is because you are often told to check this unit in other parts of the book.