Life saving skills give individuals the ability to survive and also save other people during life-threatening situations. Any life-saving skill becomes useful in these cases. When an individual’s life is at risk, people tend to panic and people die when attended to by unskilled persons. Life saving skills are easy to learn. These techniques don’t need you to be a health professional in order to learn. They are basic first aid techniques that could save your life and the lives of other people. We share more about the essential life saving skills you should learn!
2. Objectives of Session
At the end of the session, Each individual will be able to know :
• Definition of Emergency Response & its Kit
• Aims and Objectives of Individual Emergency Responder
• Quality of Emergency Responders
• Fundamental Principles of Emergency Skills
• Disasters & Its Types
• Approach to Conscious and Unconscious Causalities
• Define CPR, its Considerations & Managing Victim
• Define Airway Obstruction Emergencies
• Domestic Emergencies with its Management
• Environmental Emergencies with its Management
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3. Emergency Aid/ Responses is the
immediate assistance or treatment
given to some one injured or suddenly
taken ill before the arrival of an
Ambulance, or other appropriately
qualified person.
EMERGENCY
RESPONSES
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18. Primary Survey
• The 4 points you should check in a primary survey
are:
• 1. State of consciousness.
• 2. Airways.
• 3. Signs of life.
• 4. Severe injuries
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19. Approach to a Conscious
Causality
• Reassure
• Head to toe survey
• First Aid to the specific injury
• Call for ambulance /Transport
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20. Approach to a Conscious
Causality
• Head to toe survey includes D.O.T.S
• D- Deformity
• O- Open Injury
• T-Tenderness
• S-Swelling
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25. Heart Diseases are the no. Cause
of Death all over the world
A/c to CDC
• One person dies every 34 seconds in the United
States from cardiovascular disease.
• About 6Lac 97,000Thousands people die of heart
disease in the United States every year
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29. WHEN TO S.T.O.P CPR
SPONTANEOUS signs of circulation are restored.
TURNED over to medical services or properly trained and
authorized personnel.
OPERATOR is already exhausted and cannot continue
CPR.
PHYSICIAN assumes responsibility (declares
death, take over, etc.).
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31. Environmental
Emergencies
• Exposure to Heat or Cold Related Emergencies
• Most population are at high risk for these
emergencies
• Children
• Older Persons
• Pt with Chronic Illness
• Persons with Strenuous activities
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