Description
PRODUCT TABLE OF CONTENT_5
- INTRODUCTION TO FIRST AID AWARENESS
- What is First Aid
- The Aim of First Aid- The 4P’s
- The role of a First Aiders
- First Aiders Scope of Treatment
- Safety Tips in an Emergency Situation
- Safety Tips in a Life Threatening Emergency Situation
- Safety Quick-Dial Tips
- First aid kit contents
- LEGAL REFERENCES
- South African Constitution
- Good Samaritan Law
- Permission/ Consent
- Documentation
- General Safety Regulation, 1986
- FIRST AID SITE MANAGEMENT
- Basic scene management – triage
- Basic scene management – HHH-CAB method
- Primary survey – CAB
- Secondary survey – head to toe assessment
- SHOCK
- CHOKING
- Introduction to Choking
- The Back-Slaps
- Heimlich Maneuvers
- First aid for choking if the person is unconscious
- CPR – CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION
- Introduction to CPR
- CPR Procedure
- CPR – when to stop
- BURNS AND SCALDS
- Introduction to burns and scalds
- Classification of Causes
- Severity of burns
- Person on fire
- Complications
- INJURIES – EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL
- Heart Attach
- Stroke
- Epilepsy
- Poisoning
- Insect bites & Stings
- Concussion
- Wounds: cuts, lacerations and grazes- minor
- Muscle and joint injuries
- Animal/ human bite
- Bleeding
- Bleeding – excessive external
- Bleeding – internal
- Scalp and face injuries
- Eye injuries
- Nasal injuries
- Ear injuries
- Head injuries
- The spine
- Suspected spinal injury – what do you do?
- Chest injuries
- Abdominal injuries
- Impaled objects
- Dislocation or fracture
- Amputation/ severed body part
- Heat cramps – heat
- Heat exhaustion – heat
- Heat stroke – heat
- Hypothermia – cold
- DROWNING
- DRESSINGS AND SPLINTS
- First aid: bandaging
- Triangular bandages
- Dressing a burn
- Splinting




