emergency handling and first aid
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Emergency Handling and First Aid
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Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
• Explain how to provide first aid during electrical accidents or any other accident
• Explain the importance of a first-aid box and its contents
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Open House Discussion
• Have you ever seen anyone collapsing due to heart stroke?
• What was done to that person to bring him back to normal position?
• Have you noticed that the heart of the patient was compressed so that he can breathe?
• What else has been done to provide first aid to the person?
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Cardiac Arrest – First Aid Tips
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Cardiac Arrest – First Aid Tips
Perform chest compression
Follow the rib cage
Locate the heart to give chest
compression
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Cardiac Arrest – First Aid Tips
Check for movement
Keep elbows straight and apply
direct pressure over the heart
Check if the patient is breathing
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Cardiac Arrest – First Aid Tips
Mouth-to-mouth Resuscitation
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Artificial Respiration – Discussion
• What do you mean by artificial respiration?
• Have you ever seen someone giving artificial respiration to an injured person?
• What were your observations?
• Why is artificial respiration given to the patient?
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Artificial Respiration – First Aid Tips
Artificial respiration
Chin is raised
Inhale fully before giving air to patient
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Artificial Respiration – First Aid Tips
Artificial respiration
Chest compression and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation should not be done simultaneously
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First-Aid Box
First-Aid Box
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First-Aid Box
• The shape of the first-aid box can be as per convenience
• First-aid box can be kept:
– In a car
– In the workplace
– At home
– In factory
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Contents of First-Aid Box
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Contents of First-Aid Box – Implements
Scissors Forceps Wooden stick buds
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Contents of First-Aid Box – Implements
Safety pin
Bandage can be secured with the help of
Safety pin
Adhesive plaster
Tying a knot
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Contents of First-Aid Box – Implements
Measuring cup
Face mask Gloves
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Contents of First-Aid Box – Medicine
Dettol or Savlon
Spirit of Ammonia
Rubbing Gel
Local Application
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Contents of First-Aid Box – Medicine
Oral Medicine/Items
Soda Mint Tablets
Salt Sugar
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Contents of First-Aid Box – Dressings
Roller bandageTriangular bandage or
Ram Baan Patti
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Contents of First-Aid Box – Dressings
Four different ways of using triangular bandage
Open bandage
Broad bandage
Roller bandage
Narrow bandage
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Contents of First-Aid Box – Dressings
Reef knot
Triangular bandage
Pull one end to loosen it
Pull out to loosen it
Pull out completely to open the knot
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Contents of First-Aid Box – Dressings
Sterile bandage
Sterile bandage pack
Crepe bandage or Garam patti
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Contents of First-Aid Box – Dressings
Cotton roll Sterile gauze
Adhesive plaster Micro tape
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Contents of First-Aid Box – Dressings
Readymade bandages
Eye pads
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First-Aid Box – Maintenance
First-aid box
White in colour
Red cross marking
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Key Learning Outcomes
• We need to provide required first aid to the victims of electrical accidents or any other accident
• If the heartbeat of a person stops, we have to give cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
• It is very important to have first aid box available in case of any emergency
• The contents of a first-aid box are categorised into:
– Implements
– Local application medicines
– Oral application medicines and
– Dressings
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Key Learning Outcomes
• Implements include scissors, forceps, bamboo sticks, safety pins, measuring cup, mask and gloves
• Local application medicine includes Savlon or Dettol, spirit of ammonia and rubbing gel
• Oral application medicine includes soda mint, salt and sugar
• Dressings include roller bandage, triangular bandage, sterilised bandage, crepe bandage, cotton roll, sterilised gauze and adhesive plaster