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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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What can you do to help if someone cannot catch their breath?
First is assessment: * Are they choking? * Are they cyanotic, pale, diaphoretic (which implies a heart attack). * Pains in back or arm? Clutching their chest with a fist? (also heart attack). All these are a 911 call. If it's not those, how about these?: * Have they just completed extreme physical exertion? (Leave em alone and let em catch their breath). * Are they emotinally distraught? (See if they can relax on their own). * Do they seem to be hyperventilating? (Breathing super duper fast (40+ per minute) but otherwise seem okay? With hyperventilation, you can try the venerable "let em breathe into a paper bag" trick (assuming you carry paper bags around), so they can catch up on CO2 content. The truth is I don't like this method though, and I don't personally trust it. Given time, hyperventilation will stop on its own just fine, one way or another. I've never heard of a death from hyperventilation. I'm happy to let things take their course instead of making the wrong call and interfering with their O2 uptake when they need it most. All through this, you need to be watching for the situation to get more acute. If they develop a blocked airway, stop breathing, suffer a heart attack, your whole plan changes and you need to move with it.
An emergency first aid kit should include?
There is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question as what you need in your first aid kit depends on what sort of setting you will be carrying it in. A meat-processing plant would need very different things than a bank, for example.
There are a few things I would recommend all kits to have, though:
- A small, up-to-date, first-aid guide, with pictures
- Band-aids
- Tape (medical or duct)
- Triangular bandage(s)
- Gauze Pads
- CPR breathing barrier
- Disposable, non-latex gloves
- Antiseptic solution
Again, this is at a minimum. Tailor your kit to your situation.
Is it true that antibiotics are not used for a deep wound?
* Yes. Please go to the doctor if the wound is deep and that serious.
* First, I think the questioner means "antiseptics." Antiseptics are different from antibiotics in that they're applied directly to the injury, whereas antibiotics are injected, swallowed, etc. (although there are cases of topical antibiotics -- a weird exception).
For really major wounds, hospitals and such will typically irrigate with a sterile saline and wash the wound thusly. Saline is not usually a super-healthy environment for many bacteria, but mostly, the washing action will physically remove a lot of the problem. The reason for this is that antiseptics are -- when you really get down to it -- toxins. They're intended to kill really small things, bacteria, mold spores, the occasional healthy cell, etc. But they're still toxins.
On small wounds, the number of healthy cells damaged is minimal and offset by the good that the antiseptics do. On really big wounds, however, much more surface area is involved, more healthy cells can be damaged, and there are now ways for the antiseptic to make it into the subject's system -- which can be a real problem.
Instead, with a major wound, a hospital will clean the surrounding areas with an antiseptic, and flush the wound with sterile saline. Typically, after closing, they'll administer a systemic antibiotic prophylactically, to stem off any infection the flushing missed. === ===
Ample is used for teaching medical staff in remembering important information to ask your casualty.
Allergy
Medication
Previous medical history
Last meal
Event history
Hope this helps!
A open wound is a cut or scratch or any kind of cut. When it is new or still there not covered by a scab. While its open it can get many germs or it can get infected.
As you don't mention any symptoms relating to the head injury besides whiplash and a bump, I'm going to assume there aren't any, for purposes of this advice. Head impact almost always results in Whiplash -- which is what I bet you're seeing right now. Yes -- the same whiplash you see in car accidents (which, when you consider the physics of what happened, turns out to be nearly the same thing). Soreness is common, and will go away with time. Numbness or tingling is more of a problem, but that's a lot more rare, and I don't really want to go there unless there's a reason to. Icepack the neck where it hurts... about 10 minutes on and 10 minutes of for half an hour. Make sure, with a child, that it's not too cold. Don't accidentally freeze the skin -- so you may have to wrap that icepack in a kitchen towel or something like that to act as an insulator. Some aspirin or ibuprofin are appropriate here; follow directions on the box. You should see some improvement right away, with a lot more in 3-5 days.
When you stab yourself it hurts should this happen what should you do?
run under cold water, then put something on it to stop the blood,
What to do if your friend is unconscious from drugs?
call the ambulance
Always a good start, while you're waiting stay with them and make sure they are breathing, put them in the recovery position so if they vomit their air way will the clear.
Do not panic. It will only make things worse, you need to keep a clear head and be there for your friend. If here are other friends around, find out what they took, it might help they emergency team if they know what they're dealing with.
How do you wash hair without harming head stitches?
don't ask me that if I don't know it.
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This is a question for your doctor.
How do you describe what happens to stop the bleeding when you cut yourself....?
Remember to read a the Latest First Aid Manual for proper advice.
1) Elevate (etc raise the arm)
2) Put direct pressure
3) Clean the wound (etc grazes and small cuts NOT massive lacerations)
4) Place dressings (plaster or ambulance dressing)
Hope this helps, if your interisted in learning first aid properly try
sja.org.uk for a first aid course!
What do you get at the hospital if you have a spider bite?
It depends on the type of spider and how bad your infection is. If it's just a little swollen and red, you'll likely get only an antihistamine to help with the allergic reaction. If it's infected, you'll get an antibiotic.
They could indeed be spider bites, although there are lots of other biting insects and arachnids that could have caused them. As you'd imagine, insect bites are amazingly frequent all over the world. Most go unnoticed, and the vast majority don't cause any serious complications. Watch the bites you have. They should start to disappear over the next day or so. If they get a lot worse, call for help. There are some wonderful Poison Control sites (especially the one in California at UC Davis!) that can tell you all you need to know -- and more -- about bites.
What will happen to your ears if you hear a loud noise?
When a loud noise hits your ears, the small bones in your ears briefly disconnect, in order to partially mute the sound. This helps to maintain hearing. However, in louder sounds, this manuever is ineffective. Normal conversation is about 85Db (Decibels). A lawnmower is about 90Db and, over 8 hours, can cause some (usually reversible) hearing damage. Gunshots are around 140Db, and can cause instant pain as well as damage. Higher overpressure gradiants (bigger noises) can of course do even more. Really loud noises, like a gunshot at close range, can cause deafness, ringing in your ears (tinnitis), and may actually damage the ear drum. All of these effects may be temporary, or they may be permanent.
How long will you bleed something bleed if you hit a vein?
Veins carry the deoxygenated blood to the heart do that it can go through the oxygenation process in the lungs. There is less pressure on the veins as they are further away (peripheral) from the heart and on the side of the heart coming from the body and into the heart. The arteries, on the other hand, carry oxygenated blood away from the heart to the body so that the cells in the body can use the oxygen and other nutrients to live. Now, regarding your question: It depends on several factors. First, whether or not you have normal or abnormal clotting factors in your body. These are generally manufactured and supplied by the liver and there are not just a few. Here is the whole clotting story, according to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coagulation Secondly, whether or not you have an adequate supply of platelets in your blood. These are microscopic fibers that are attracted to areas of bleeding. They form a "clot" on the bleed and cause the bleeding to stop. If both of these coagulation systems are normal and, depending on how large the "vein" is that is bleeding, you should stop bleeding fairly quickly (inside of ten to twenty minutes) if you do nothing but let the wound bleed. If you are not suicidal though and have any common sense at all, you would simply apply pressure to the bleeding area and the bleeding would stop even quicker as long as you hold pressure there. If there is an artery involved, the bleeding could last much longer. The reason is that there is significantly more pressure on an arterial bleed than on a veinous bleed. This keeps the platelets from doing their job. It would be like trying to stop a garden hose with a fireman's nozzle on it. The pressure would not allow you to stop it quickly so you'd have to stop the flow at the source. Again, you'd want to hold significant pressure and get to the nearest ER so they could stop the bleeding for you. Luckily, the veins are closest to the surface so you're most likely to hit a vein rather than an artery but arteries are knicked fairly often.
What is a emergency preparedness kit?
Depending on where you live and work, and the prevalent hazards in those areas, at a MINIMUM, an emergency preparedness kit should have the following items:
- flashlight
- battery operated radio
- batteries
- whistle
- dust mask
- pocket knife
- emergency cash, in small amounts; quarters for pay-phones. YES, pay phones.
- water and non-perishable foods, such as granola or protein bars
- permanent marker, paper and tape
- list of emergency contacts (laminated to avoid water damage)
- copies of your identification, health insurance cards, and allergy information (laminated to avoid water damage)
- toothbrush and toothpaste
- comfortable walking shoes
These kits are also called GO-BAGS, and should be fairly light and portable.
Should all Burns be flushed with cool water?
Yes, all burns should be flushed with cool water to help reduce pain, cool the burn, and prevent further skin damage. For minor burns, running cool (not cold) water over the affected area for 10 to 20 minutes is recommended. However, for severe burns, it's important to seek medical attention rather than flushing with water. Always avoid using ice or very cold water, as this can cause further injury to the skin.
Why do red cross provide first aid courses?
The Red Cross provides first aid courses so that people who are not necessarily educated in the medical field will be prepared if an emergency situation were to break out. For instance if they were around a small child who was choking, having had these courses, they would know what steps to take in order to save this life.
RICE is an acronym to remind someone how to treat sprains and strains:
* Rest * Ice * Compression * Elevate See Related Links.
I heard a weird noise in leg what happend There was a pulling crunching noise in the back of my leg?
What sort of noise was it? What did it sound like? It sounds to me that you have to go and see your GPA You need to get it checked.
What is measured with a sling psychometric?
A sling psychrometer measures the relative humidity and temperature of the air. It consists of two thermometers—one with a dry bulb and the other with a wet bulb, which is moistened with water. As air passes over the wet bulb, evaporation cools it, and the difference in readings between the two thermometers allows for the calculation of relative humidity. This tool is commonly used in meteorology and environmental monitoring.
