Standard First Aid

This book not only teaches you how to recognize and treat emergencies such as cardiac arrest, stroke and choking. The book includes instruction in dealing with adult, child and infant obstructed airways, adult, child and infant CPR theory, rescue breathing skills and the use of an Automated External Defibrillator. Develop the skills and confidence necessary to save someone you love, or even yourself, in an emergency. Book content includes: • Priority Action Approach for conscious and unconscious patients • First aid for airway, breathing and circulation emergencies, • First aid for minor wounds, • First aid for factures, • First aid for illnesses (Asthma, diabetic, poison, seizures, and more) • Patient handling techniques with spinal precautions to initially move an injured person, • Roles of first aid attendants in the transportation of injured workers, • The priority action approach, and • Mechanisms of injury capable of producing spinal injury.