First Aid

I think you mean A+Ox3 which means Alert and Oriented times 3. When assessing a patient we ask them 3 or 4 questions that are verifiable to judge their alertness.

Here in WA we ask 4 questions: person, place, time and event. So if a person knows all 4 then they would be A+Ox4. If they don't know the place or time then we would say they are A+O to person and event.

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The Heimlich maneuver (now called abdominal thrusts by the American Red Cross) is done by making a fist (pac-man / thumb facing the stomach) with one hand and on the stomach and the other hand, open-faced, helping to push the fist up into the diaphragm.

That in-and-up ("J") motion applies pressure to the diaphragm, essentially knocking the wind out of you (your goal, of course). That motion should be done as hard as possible. To give you an idea of the amount of force needed, a colleague of mine did abdominal thrusts on his brother's son, an 8 year old boy who had choked on a piece of hot dog. He did four abdominal thrusts with no success. On the fifth try, the thought that he said went through his mind was "Oh my God - if I do this any harder, I'm going to break this kid's spine" and sure enough, the piece of hot dog came flying out. It takes a lot of force!

Peristalsis

This ones simple. Use a tourniquet to stop the blood flow its a last resort but it will save the victim from bleeding out.

There are a number of reasons for this. First, the first responders need to watch out for their own safety. They need to know if support beams are about to fall, if a sniper is in the area, if a burglar is in the house, if there is radiation, if there is high voltage, or if there are dangerous chemicals or gases involved. Then they have to know what type of trauma they see and know what is wrong with anyone they see so they can offer appropriate help. They would also have to know how far they are from more appropriate help. That way, they will know what is best done in the field, and what is best done in a hospital or wherever.

dying would probably be considered one by most people.

Go to the hospital!!!

It does sound like a tick .They do spread diseases so I would see a Dr. I have added a web link I hope is helpful.

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Difficult to access damage

yes because there is friction and friction produce sparks and it starts burning.

You most likely cracked your skull don't press on it you may cause brain damage that could lead to death or put you in a vegatative state. Rush as soon as you can to the ER and let them you cracked your skull. They will demobilize your head until the bone has fused back together.

Be prepared before this happens. Take a first aid course, check with the Red Cross, or a local hospital for classes. Buy a first aid kit and keep it in your car, keep one at home and take one with you on any wilderness outings. Read the manual that comes with it now, before you need it.

Once the injury has occurred:

Have your buddy call 911 immediately. Try to stay calm, sit or lie down.

In the meantime, continue methods to control the bleeding. Not knowing where the cut is makes a difference in how to answer. If you can reach it with both hands, then there are a few obvious places.

Some place on your head is less likely, how would you know the cut is deep and long? But assuming it is possible (looking in a car mirror, for example), then have your buddy try to find a rolled up piece of clothing or other large clean piece of fabric material that you can use to cover the wound while you continue to apply pressure. The object will allow your hands to be more effective at stopping the bleeding. Wounds on the head bleed a lot and may seem worse than they are, stay calm.

Convince your friend that he can cowboy up and to try to be strong about the sight of the blood; people can take control of themselves in situations like that when talked to calmly and rationally. If the fabric "dressing" on the wound covers most of the blood, then he may even be able to help with the application of pressure using that covering. If not, keep him busy finding more clean towels, or other fabrics to use as dressings so you can change to a clean dry one if the first one gets saturated. Keep the used ones for the emergency personnel to see to help the gauge the blood loss.

Another help your friend can provide is to gather spider webs. Spider webs will stop bleeding when put over and on cuts.

If the wound is on the chest, or abdomen, then the same type of dressing will help in the same ways. Try to sit or lie on a hard surface so that the pressure against your trunk is more effective than if you are applying pressure with nothing to push against to increase the pressure. If your breathing is impacted from a deep cut into the chest, try to first cover the wound with some plastic under the fabric to help make the cut as air tight as possible until help arrives. If your buddy is still no help, have him look nearby to find another person to come help until the emergency personnel arrive. But he should not go where he can not watch for the emergency help and be sure they find you, or stay away too long.

If the cut is on a lower extremity, then there are a few options in addition to the rolled fabric. Your friend can find or make long strips of fabric from a shirt to wind or tie over the fabric dressing on the wound. Now if the blood is no longer visible to the friend have him help apply pressure to the pressure point of the femoral artery. You will need to have him or you press very hard on that point to slow the blood flow into the leg. The femoral artery pulse/pressure point is located at the groin just where the leg meets the lower body, toward the inside of the leg. Feel for the pulse and when you find it, push there and hold.

If you are in the wilderness and help will not be able to get there quickly or within the hour, you may have to resort to a tourniquet tied around the leg just above the location of the cut if the pressure has not stopped or significantly slowed the bleeding. You can make a tourniquet from a belt, neck tie, piece of rope, bungee cord, electrical wire, fabric strip, or similar materials. Try the pressure first and only put on the tourniquet as a last resort. Damage can be permanent to a limb deprived of blood for long periods of time, you may have to make the decision if the bleeding continues whether to risk the limb with a tourniquet or risk your life from a bleed out.

Keep both hands firmly on the laceration, applying pressure and raising the arm above the heart.

It may look funny but the pain is intense enough for some to pass out.

No....

this series of reactions eventually produces a protein called fibrin. fibrin gets its name from the fact that it weaves a net of tiny fibers across the cut in the blood vessel.

You tilt the head back and chin up. Then you use the 2-finger sweep in the victim's mouth to clear any blockage. Then you proceed normally.

Not necessarily - Pain is completely and totally subjective, meaning each person experiences pain differently. Part of it has to do with the person's experience with pain as they age, any pain drugs/anesthesia they may have been given during and after surgery when they were small children (tonsils, etc), all those and many other factors alter each persons sensitivity, or Tolerance, to pain.

For example, as a chronic pain patient I've experienced extreme pain every day for the past 12 years; 11 of those have required the use of opiates to maintain a fairly normal lifestyle. As such, my pain tolerance is extremely high. So what might be excruciating for you or someone else might feel like hardly anything to me.

In your comparison, the opposite could be true - the smaller person could have more pain than the bigger person, if you consider the smaller person a child and the larger one an adult who has had more pain experience, while the child has had little or no serious pain experience.

If you want to calculate the average of a list of numbers, add the numbers together and divide it by the number of numbers.

i think they use electricity by shocking you like they do when u have a heart attack i hope that helped :)

Yes, anything cold will bring down the swelling.

The heimlich maneuver.

whats the injection??? I believe they are talking about first aid for nerve gas exposure, in which case the injector should stay in place for 5 seconds and immediately followed by the 2 pam chloride

In medicine shock implies a failure by the circulation to meet the metabolic demand of the tissues. The failure of the circulation is usually, but not always, reflected by hypotension (low blood pressure).

Shock can result from loss of blood or severe fluid losses (hypovolaemia), loss of fluid from the circulating blood volume inside the body (distributive shock), weakness of the heart's contraction (cardiogenic shock) loss of the constrictive tone of the blood vessels (vasodilatory shock) and obstruction of the blood flow (obstructive shock). Often the cause of shock is a mix of more than one of these mechanisms.

Examples of specific causes of shock include: haemorrhage, burns, severe diarrhoea, anaphylaxsis, systemic infection, myocardial infraction, pulmonary embolism and cardiac tamponade.

Untreated persistent clinical shock will progress to multiple organ dysfunction and eventually death.

While anxiety, and psychological distress are symptoms of shock (caused by the activity of the sympathetic nervous system) the medical syndrome of clinical shock is quite distinct from the lay concepts of psychological shock perpetuated by the media.