4. First aid
Is the first and immediate assistance given to any person with either minor or
serious illness or injury, with provided to preserve life.
5. Aims of the first aid
1. Preserve life
2. Prevent situation from getting worse
3. Promote recovery
6. Preserve life
This doesn’t refer to the injured party but yourself and anyone helping.
One has to take a moment to assess the situation and make sure there are no
threats before stepping in.
7. Prevent the situation from getting
worse
If there is no danger, try to stop the situation from becoming worse by removing
any obvious dangers and act as quickly as you can to stop the casualty’s condition
from worsening.
8. Promote recovery
As a helper or first aider, after ensuring that the situation can not get worse,
help the casualty to recover from their injury or illness or stop their condition
from worsening. But if the injury is servere the best one can do is to keep the
casualty alive until the emergency service arrive.
9. An emergency action plan
1. Remove danger : make the seen safe do not take risk
2. Danger : look for any further danger, if there is any danger step back but if
there is no da danger go to step 3
10. An emergency action plan
3. Response : shout and gently shake or tap the casualty. If the casualty respond,
find out what happened. Check their signs and symptoms the determine a
treatment
But if there is no response shout for help but don’t leave casualty just yet and go
to step 4
11. An emergency action plan
4. Air way : open the casualty’s air way by lifting their chin and tilting their head
back.
12. An emergency action plan
5. Breathing Normal? : Look, listen and feel for two breaths in a maximum of ten
seconds. If you can clearly determine the casualty is breathing check for
bleeding, injuries and clues that put the casualty in to the recovery position.
13. An emergency action plan
But if you can not determine if the casualty is breathing go to step 6
6. Resuscitation : give 30 min chest compressions followed by 2 rescue breaths, continue giving cycles of 30 min
compressions to 2 breaths.
15. References
First aid manual : 9th edition. Dorling Kindersley
Mental Health First Aid USA. October 10 2013. Retrieved November 20 2019
Peterson, Sarah (January 2018 ) About “PFA” The National Child Traumatic
Stress Network. Retrieved November 20 2019