2. What is first aid...?
• It is the first and immediate assistance given to any person
suffering from either minor or serious illness or injury.
• Simply, it is a help given to a sick or injured person until
full medical treatment is available.
3. AIMS
• To preserve life
• To prevent the
victim’s
condition from
worsening
• To promote
recovery
PRINCIPLE (4 C’s)
• Call for help
• Calmly take
charge
• Check the scene
and the casualty
• Carefully apply
first aid
5. MANAGEMENT OF DISLOCATION
• A dislocation occurs when a bone slips
out of a joint.
• Leave the joint alone. Attempting to move
or jam a dislocated bone back in can
damage blood vessels, muscles, ligaments,
and nerves.
• Put an ice pack covered in a cloth on the
area around the joint. Ice can ease
swelling and pain in and around the joint.
6. MANAGEMENT OF WOUNDS
• an injury to living tissue caused by a cut,
blow, or other impact, typically one in
which the skin is cut or broken.
7.
8. MANAGEMENT OF BURNS
• A burn is a type of injury to skin, or other
tissues, caused by heat, cold, electricity,
chemicals, friction, or radiation.
9. In a nut shell....
• first aid is a help given to a sick or injured
person until full medical treatment is available.
• A fracture is a break, usually in a bone.
• A dislocation occurs when a bone slips out of a
joint.
• an injury to living tissue caused by a cut, blow, or
other impact, typically one in which the skin is
cut or broken.
• A burn is a type of injury to skin, or other
tissues, caused by heat, cold, electricity,
chemicals, friction, or radiation.
10. Quick review
• What is first aid?
• What are the aims of giving first aid?
• What are the major principles of first aid?
• How to give first aid to a fractured
person?
• What is the first aid of burns?
• What is dislocation?
11. HOME WORK
• Watch a video on first aid of cardiac
arrest.
• Watch a video on first aid given on
choking
