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

Hanging

Your aims:

1. Restore (bring back) good enough breathing.
2. Try to get medical help

Your actions:

1. Remove the rope (or other item) from the around the person’s neck. If the person is still hanging, you will need to support the body whilst you do this (Be aware that the body will be heavy!).
2. Lay the casualty on the ground. Assess
3. D R A B. If the casualty is not breathing, begin CPR. If the casualty is breathing, place him or her into the recovery position as for a person with a suspected spinal injury (see Unit 18).
4. Call for medical help.

If the person was trying to hang him or herself (i.e. it was not an accident), you must tell the police. You must also keep the rope (or other item) to give to the police.

Remember your gloves!

Precaution to observe around children.

Avoid taking medicine in the presence of small children. Safeguard with special precautions, all drugs that are colored, flavoured or coated with sugar (including aspirin flavored chewing gum). Warn small children not to eat or drink medicines or anything else they may find without your permission. Insist upon this rule as soon as they are old enough to begin exploring the home environment.
Teach children about the danger of drugs and poisonous chemicals. Do not allow them to inhale plastic glues or resins for a prolonged period of time wile building plastic models. Provide teenagers with information regarding the danger of drinking industrial alcohols, overdoses of alcohol, and experimentation with drugs.

Disposal

Take an inventory of drugs and chemicals in the home. Discard old drugs periodically, particularly those left over from treatment of special illnesses. Flush the drugs down the drain. Rinse containers and throw them away.

Preparation for emergencies

Learn what to do in case of overdose of medication or accidental poisoning. Keep first aid supplies on hand and available at all times. Also keep handy the telephone numbers of your doctor, hospital, and poison control centre and the police and fire departments.