First Aid

I only know four: * Unconscious * No breathing, or extremely irregular or agonal breathing, Cheyne-Stokes respiration, etc. * No circulation ---OR--- * Obstructed airway and the victim is an infant, pregnant or obese (i.e. too large to get your hands around to perform a Heimlich manuver). Many indications exist for CPR,these include

* Dead cases,where no pulse and no breathing can be detected * Drug overdosage * Drowning * Poisoning

* Non-fatal cardiac arrhythmia

* Shocks and seizures.

Anticonvulsants may not be suitable for persons with a history of stroke , anemia, thyroid, liver, depressed kidney function, diabetes mellitus, severe gastro-intestional disorders, porphyria, lupus , some forms of mental illness, high blood pressure.

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According to the World Health Organization (WHO)estimates, every year 100,000,000 blood bags are needed for transfusions across the world.

The best parts of a day for a nurse are when they see all of they're hard work pay off. When a patient tells them that they've made a difference is one example. Most nurses do not get into this career for good times, money or prestige. Most of them get into it in order to actually help people improve or manage some issue with their health. A nurse is a holistic healer. This means that the nurse does not focus on only one aspect of a condition or illness like a doctor focuses on, say, diabetes. The doctor's goal is to focus on the disease and try to control the symptoms such as frequent urination, fatigue, nausea, thirst, skin breakdown, diet, etc.

The nurse's job is to identify the holistic aspects of the whole person and how the disease affects them in all ways. For instance, a nurse would think about the specifics of the diet, the time of day that the meals are taken, what effect certain surfaces have on the patient's skin, the types of shoes they should be wearing to keep their feet healthy, how much sunlight they should or should not be getting, what kinds of exercises are best for this patient, how are they're bowels performing, etc. This is not to say that the doctor doesn't also think of some of these things but the doctor is interested in controlling the symptoms with medications while the nurse will control the holistic person with any legitimate means available, including the doctor's medications.

So, back to the original question. When a nurse percieves that they have done the best job possible and the patient recognizes it, this is the BEST part of the day. If the patient is unable to recognize the nurse's contribution, such as in an emergency situation, the nurse feels great pride and accomplishment just knowing they did everything they could in order to make the patient's life better in some way.

Though your question is a multi-faceted one, this should give you some idea of what "best" really means to a nurse.

You need to make a determination about whether the physical environment is safe for the first aid team (yourself) versus the need to provide immediate aid. You also need to consider whether moving the victim out of the danger area is possible and warranted. There is no simple formulaic answer.

If the victim is the source of the contamination, then first aid must wait until adequate precautions are taken to protect yourself and the others in the first aid team.

Common practice requires the rescuer/first responder to take their own health into account before that of the victim. If you can't make the rescue safely -- don't. Work the problem until a safe rescue is possible.

# Catch the victim if you can, and fall SLOWLY to the floor with them -- i.e. ease them to the floor. This is a bit tricky if the victim is too large for you to lift. # If they're in a dangerous position (lying in the middle of the road), get them to safety. # Gently but quickly ease them onto their back. # Assess breathing and cardiac. If breathing or heart are problematic, commence CPR as needed. # If breathing and heart are well, place them in a position where their legs are higher than their head (shock position). # Maintain body temp. If it's cold out, get a blanket; if it's hot out get some shade, and perhaps wipe them down with a cool cloth. # Perform an assessment: Are they cool or hot to the touch? Sweating or dry? Are they cyanotic? Check and record vitals. # See if they respond to voice or touch -- if they do, good. # If they do not display any grave symptoms, don't DO anything except monitor their condition. Don't use smelling salts. Unless there is a specific need, don't so anything strenuous to revive them. Let them come to on their own. If this isn't working, consider a 911 call. # Don't leave them until they either walk away themselves, or you hand the scene over to someone as qualified as you, or moreso. # Once they regain consciousnes, it's normal for them to be confused or groggy. Let them. Don't rush things. Consider what caused them to faint. Heat stroke, Heat exhaustion, intoxicants and shock are all prime candidates (and require different treatment), but so are low electrolytes, hypotension (sometimes from standing up too fast), and quite a few not dangerous conditions.

The standard when the heart has stopped is to first blow twice then press the heart 30 times in 15 seconds (twice per second), then blow two times, and repeat with 30 compressions. The two important things are: Remember that the heart-rate of infants is high, thus the quick pressing on the chest and remember not to inflate with more air than a mouthful. You may check this with your hand. If you breath in too much, a lung could rupture or the stomach is filled with air.

Certainly. Any time you break blood vessels under the skin, you've got a bruise. As the ear has a blood supply, you can indeed bruise it.

Safety pins in the first aid kit are primarily used to hold and secure bandages.

Although you may find safety pins in the first aid kit, especially with the triangular bandages, they are no longer used as much. Today, there are safer and more efficient techniques of securing a bandage such as taping, tying and tucking.

However, the presence of safety pins in the first aid kit comes in useful when an improvised arm sling is used or when immobilisation is required.

Most massage therapists will agree that physiologically, mild exercise, a heating pad, a warm bath, and circulatory types of massage, like those of the Swedish tradition that include kneading and stroking, all have the same effects. They all help to loosen muscle tension and relieve pain.

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Saline is distilled water with salt added into it. Dehydration isn't just the excessive loss of body water, it's also an electrolytic imbalance. When the body is dehydrated, salts have been depleted.

its first aid is to let her remember the thing you've shared with her ,in that way she could remember her life before step by step..

Chemical bottles are usually labeled with first aid instructions. For immediate assistance with chemical exposure call poison control at 1-800-222-1222.

drown it! put saline solution into your ears by using 10cc no needle syringe.

Check for a pulse about every 2 minutes.

Paramedic is the most important person in a first aid because he knows that how to deals with the patient in serious condition.

It does on me.

I don't know exactly how it works, but it draws the heat from the burn. Vinegar can be applied with a soft cloth, or add two cups to a warm bath and soak for 15 minutes. Either way, you will instantly feel better. Repeat every 4 hours for a bad burn, but usually after the first time, you feel improvement immediately. I also suggest using aloe vera after the first two applications of vinegar. The aloe keeps the skin mosturized and keeps skin from peeling so you won't lose the tan you suffered for!

If you still suffer after vinegar, it may sound crazy, but lay down on cool concrete (perhaps a basement floor or carport.) The cool concrete draws the heat out, but it is only a temporary solution. Vinegar is the best way to go!

You should always get any swelling checked out by a doctor before doing anything in case it is something serious. If they decide it isn't, a compression wrap like Tubigrip can certainly help reduce swelling. You want to use a double layer running from the top of your thigh to your ankle to be most effective. Beware though, you mustn't wear it at night. Tubigrip is best used in conjunction with Ice and elevation to reduce swelling.

They could die from most reasons. The food provided in the vending machines are most fatting and a consumption of these foods could lead to obese or clogged arteries or somehow while moving a vending machine from place to place, the machine could fall on a person leading to death or from injury to death.

A gallon of water per person per day

Maggots within a wound are typically not a major danger (and in fact sometimes a good thing, as they seem to confine themselves to consuming only necrotic tissue). This gives you time to assess the situation and choose an effective, safe approach.

Ideally, flushing maggots from the wound with sterile saline works very well. Sterile saline is pretty harmless stuff and is used to remove pretty much any foreign material from open wounds. Alternately, in the case of a very small number of individuals, you can also remove maggots from a wound with tweezers.

You most definitely don't want to use toxins to kill them. First, as you're dealing with an open wound, the toxins you use will find easy access to the patient's system. Secondly, maggots can decompose when dead, thus introducing a bacterial threat.

Bear in mind that maggots are a larval stage, and as such will not reproduce within a wound.

Note also that maggots are sometimes used clinically, especially in cases where super-sensitive debridement of necrotic tissued, especially from burns, is desirable. In this case, the maggots in question are sterilzed (both in the antiseptic and reproductive sense).

Old school paramedics will also tell you that discovering maggots in the bandaged wounds of transients and people that cannot perform good wound care, is a good sign, usually meaning that the wound will be clean and uninfected.

There are several things that are bound to happen if your rib gets fractured. You will definitely be in pain and the organs that are protected by the rib cage like the liver, gallbladder, pancreas and so on may be damaged.