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CPR and First Aid Essentials Guide

The document provides information about first aid and CPR including how to evaluate an injured person, perform chest compressions and rescue breathing, deal with airway obstructions, major bleedings and burns, and reassure an accident victim.

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CPR and First Aid Essentials Guide

The document provides information about first aid and CPR including how to evaluate an injured person, perform chest compressions and rescue breathing, deal with airway obstructions, major bleedings and burns, and reassure an accident victim.

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FIRST AID AND

CPR
FIRST AID CPR
Emergency assistance Is a medical technique for reviving
provided to a person in the someone whose heart has stopped
event of an accident or sudden beating by pressing on their chest and
breathing into their mouth.
illness.
Primary evaluation:
CHECK IF THERE IS A RESPONSE FROM THE
1 Protect PERSON.
2 Warn CALL 911 OR THE LOCAL EMERGENCY
NUMBER IF THERE IS NO RESPONSE.
3 help LAY THE PERSON CAREFULLY ON THEIR
BACK. .
PERFORM CHEST COMPRESSIONS:
OPEN THE AIRWAY.
Secondary evaluation: LOOK, LISTEN AND FEEL FOR BREATHING.
a) Consciousness
b) Breathing
c)Pulse
AIRWAY MAJOR
OBSTRUCTION BLEEDINGS CONCLUSION
AND MAJOR
BURNS.
1. Stand behind the person Reassure the accident and ask
I HOPE THIS GUIDE HAS BEEN
and wrap your arms around what happened.
Apply pressure directly on the USEFUL FOR YOU WHEN ONE
their waist.
2. Make a fist with one hand. wound and as soon as DAY YOU HAVE ANY OF THESE
possible, apply gases or sterile
3. Grasp the fist firmly with PROBLEMS.
compresses.
the other hand.
Protect or make safe, the
4. Make a quick squeeze up place of the facts.
and in with your fist. Prevent the accident from
5. Check if the object has standing.
come out.

Run cool water over the burn


area or immerse the area in
cold (not icy) water.
Calm and comfort the person.
After washing or soaking the
burn in water, cover it with a
dry, sterile bandage or clean AGOSTINA GOMEZ-CAPORALINI
dressing.
Protect the burn from
pressure or friction.

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