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First Aid

First aid is the provision of initial care for an illness or injury. It is usually performed by a lay person to a sick or injured casualty until definitive medical treatment can be accessed.

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Why is the first step in responding to life-threatening situations to assess the situation?

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.

Sliding down a rope can burn you?

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

What if you bumped your head and now it is mushy?

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.

If the cut is deep and long you have both hands applying firm pressure on the cut but the bleeding does not stop what should you do- your Buddy can't help the sight of blood makes him sick?

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.

What is the process by which you form fibrin at the site of a wound?

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.

Would you perform resuscitation if a casualty is breathing abnormally?

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.

How do you calculate the average of a list of numbers?

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

If a small person fell and cut the whole area of their knee and a larger person fell and equally cut the same area of their knee would their pain be greater?

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.

How can someone have no pulse and come back to life?

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

How long should hold the injector in place at the injection site?

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

What is CLINICAL shock?

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.

Your period didnt start today how many more days do you have?

How many more days until what? You can take a test tomorrow, if that's what you're asking

What is preferred measure for heat stroke?

Quick cooling of the person. Heat stroke is not simply being exhausted. Your body has lost the ability to regulate temperature. Most heat stroke victims will have hot, DRY, red skin. Ice, cold water, applied liberally to the whole body. Get the person to medical care as soon as possible. Heat stroke can kill you or cause permanent brain damage.

What are the different types of medics?

There are a number of types of 'medics' there are emergency response medics, combat medics and first aiders, who all need different kinds of training. Each are involved in different fields of aid and have their own specialties.

What happens if you drink phenyl?

Phenyl isn't a thing; the term Phenyl is an adjective, indicating that something is a member of chemistry's Phenyl group. The Phenyl Group is a functional group with the forumla -C6H5.

Without knowing what exact compound we're referring to, it'sd impossible to say how harmful it is. Be advised some compounds within the Phenyl group can indeed be quite dangerous.

If you meant Phenol, that's carbolic acid, once used as an antiseptic, and one of the compounds that gives Scotch whiskey its flavor. As with all questions of toxicity, it depends completely upon the dosage over time. It is quite possible to receive harmless doses of phenol, as well as dosages that are very dangerous.

When in doubt, ask a healthcare provider.

If u have meant the cleaning agent as phenyl, then the household cleansing agent is phenol.Ingestion of 1 g of phenol will cause muscle weakness, tremors, loss of coordination, conulsions , coma and respiratory arrest.

Some phenyl derivatives are even said to be neurotoxic to humans.