First Aid

Your lungs. There are millions of little sacs in your lungs and smoking damages them. Soon you will start to feel the affects: Couging, chest pain, shortness of breath, wheezing, and your risk for lung cancer shoots sky high.

Suffocation and living on a venalator will be in the near future if you smoke alot. Smoking also affects your esophigas...you can get huge veins in the lining of it which causes continuous bleeding. Also, you are at risk for mouth cancer as well.

Your best bet: Stop smoking. You can do it!

My first aid kit is located in laundry room because its the centre of the house so were ever i am ill be able to access it.really its your choice were you want it.

You should be able to see the persons chest rise and fall with each breath you give them along with feeling and hearing the air come back out with each breath. That is where you get "Look, Listen and Feel" for breathing. You are going to see and feel the same thing as if the person was breathing on their own. You are just doing it for them.

You need to seek help from a doctor, otherwise you may suffer very nasty infections or diseases from your open wound. You can wrap a bandage tightly around your arm and hope it closes on its own.

Depending on the age of the child, the most common rash found in the ante-cubital fossa (elbow area) is eczema - a form of dry skin, secondary to irritation, low humidity, or rarely a milk allergy. The application of a steroid cream (ie, hytone 2.5%) and lotion (aquacare), short baths with no bubbles, and an oral anti-itching medication (ie, benadryl, atarax) will usually suffice. RBB, MD

I've never done it personally but yes it would.

Hopefully this article would help: http://www.scribd.com/doc/392991/Death-Special-How-Does-It-Feel-to-Die

It has info on bleeding to death and several other ways of dying and discusses the stages and levels of pain involved

I'm not morbid btw just scientifically interested :)

Concussion is a trauma condition in which the brain is violently shaken against the skull. This causes swelling and contusion of the brain.

Signs and symptoms of concussion include:

- Unequal and unresponsive pupils.

- Confusion and vertigo.

- Sign of trauma to the head.

- Nausea and vomiting.

- Headache and dizziness.

- Lowered GCS and altered Level of Consciousness

Patients with suspected concussion should be monitored closely for any deterioration with could indicate cerebral compression. If the patient was knocked out for any period they should be evaluated by a doctor immediately.

If you are in doubt of the severity of the condition, call the ambulance or refer to the patient to the nearest Emergency Department.

Continue to monitor the patient until help (EMS) arrives.

Medical kits should contain basic first aid supplies such as bandages, dressings, pain relievers, water purification tablets, sunscreen, antiseptics, and ointments.

Many things can go wrong in a lab you can get bad stuff like chemicals , and or some sort of splinter in your eyes that's what eye wash is for wich could be in a first aid kit. You could cut yourself on a knife or broken glass which is wat antiseptic and a banaid is for or you could burn yourself and of these can be treated with stuff from a first aid kit.

This differs with some ambulance companies but applying a tourniquet would be the next step. Some companies took tourniquets out of the protocols.

In a first aid setting, you should not adminster any form of alcohol to the eye itself. While blindness is an conceivable result, so are other eye injuries. More often, when I see alcohol and blindness in the same sentence, it may have to do with failures in the distillation process while attempting to produce ethanol (grain alcohol -- aka Everclear), where methanol (or fusel oils) are accidentally produced. Human ingestion of methanol/fusel oils can cause neurological damage, including blindness. [[User:Cjonb|Cjonb]] 16:57, 3 Jun 2008 (UTC)

If you make a sling for your arm, you tie the knot where your shoulder is. Then your arm rests in the pocket of the triangular cravat. You tie the 2 farthest corners of the cravat together with a square knot.

You would eat things that involve little or no chewing. This would begin, at least, as a liquid diet and might proceed to soups, etc. Your doctor will probably discuss what you can and can't eat.

when you think your arm could be dislocated or even broken.

First aid kits are available from a variety of locations. Retailers such as Walmart and Target supply these kits. One can also make one's own first aid kit with supplies such as band aids, gauze, and rubbing alcohol. These products can be purchased at grocery stores and drug stores.

If you have shut your finger in a door or something and it has bled underneath then yes but it will take a while and it will come off bit by bit and dry blood will be uncoverd which u can pick away. This happend to me. You could however go to the doctor and they can burn a hole to let it bleed out the nail if it's to painful. Hope this helped

*sueleen aged 14

If they are on your heels or feet you can prevent them by wearing and changing your socks daily. If you get blisters on certain spots because of sneakers, you may want to get a new pair, or just put a band aid there, even if there is not a blister at the time. It will prevent them.

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is an international humanitarian movement with approximately 97 million volunteers worldwide which started to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for the human being, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering, without any discrimination based on nationality, race, sex, religious beliefs, class or political opinions.

Yes it is poisonous to humans if you eat it or drink it.

Antibiotics are typically used to treat systemically, so are taken by mouth, injection, etc. Barring a severe infection, you wouldn't use antibiotics (by this name) for a minor cut. What you would use is an antiseptic, which is typically applied topically to wounds. That said, I generally prefer non-gooey antiseptics in most cases, because the sticky ones can trap bacteria. This leaves things like hydrogen peroxide 3% (which is strong -- sometimes too strong) and Betadyne (an iodine derivative). Neither hurt much on application, and they work really well. Alcohol is a bad idea -- in fact it's more of a disinfectant than an antiseptic (i.e. not used on open wounds). Gels like Bacitracin and their like are good if you need the gel to stick to the wound but -- as I mentioned before -- being sticky they'll trap things too. Wounds on mucous membranes seem to work well with gels because the normal flow of saliva will tend to wash away non-viscous liquids. ---- Topical antibiotics, such as neosporin, bacitracin, or triple antibiotic ointment (polymyxin, neosporin, and bacitracin) are typically prepared in a vaseline base and applied to a wound underneath a bandage. These promote healing by keeping the wound moist. They tend to decrease scar formation by promoting more rapid epithelialization of the wound base (if the laceration is small), and they help keep bacteria and other contaminants out.

That said, they can sometimes get messy, but if applied correctly and under a bandage, they can be quite effective.

The priorities are ABC: Airway, Breathing and Circulation.

This is because something interfering with any of the three can be extremely life threatening.

We address the ABCs in the Primary Survey. If we are unable to get an airway, if the patient is not breathing, or if the patient does not have a pulse, we will have to perform either CPR (CardioPulmonary Resuscitation) or AR (Artificial Respiration).

In a First Responder context with the responder being non-military and using the American model of first responder technique (i.e. stabilize and GO!), seal the wound with a battle dressing, aluminum foil, a cut up latex glove, or anything that won't pass air. A quick swab of antiseptic over the wound. Cut the bandage so it overlaps the wound margins by at least 2". You can tape-seal the dressing on three sides taughtly. This makes the fourth open side sort of a flapper valve, which will let air and blood pass out of the chest cavity, but shouldn't let air back in, thus (hopefully) reinflating the lung and maintaining it so.

If you feel uncomfortable with this method, an airtight seal on 4 sides is more conventional and easier, but doesn't allow the lung to reinflate.

Some battle dressings come with a "sucking chest would kit" that has a flapper valve built into the latex dressing, and one side is adhesive, so all you have to do is clean the immediate area (both for sterility and to make sure the adhesive sticks, and apply the dressing.

Position the victim with the wounded side down, if possible, so as to let gravity drain blood to the valve.

Military medics and on-scene doctors may consider a thoracostomy and chest tube at this point. Civilian medic generally are not authorized to perform this procedure (if you're a non-military first responder and your area allows this, I'd appreciate it if you let me know...)