First Aid Training Guidelines

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First Aid Training Guidelines

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Index

1. What is First Aid
2. Why First Aid Training Required
3. What does they teach in First Aid Training
4. Key Aims of First Aid can categories in Three Key
   Points
5. Prevents the situation from becoming worse
6. First Aid Training
7. Basic First Aid Training Guidelines

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What Is First Aid?

• The First Aid is immediate care provided to a
  person who has been injured or has been suddenly
  ill.
• It includes both self-help and home care if
  medical assistance is not available or delayed.

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Why First Aid Training Required?

• The first aid training required because whether
  you are working in an office or a construction
  site, it has two common traits valuable employees
  who may injure or become ill and the need to
  protect them with first aid procedures.
• There are many First Aid Training Providers such
  as ASTM Pvt Ltd is one of them.

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What Does They Teach In First Aid Training?

• First Aid trainers teach basic skills to employee
  or to worker.
• Such as Required skills, common ailments
  requiring first aid like electrical shocks,
  cardiac arrest, fractures, etc., administering of
  CPR, types of knots and bandages, lifting
  techniques.

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key aims of first aid can categories in three key
points

• 1. Preserve Life
• The preponderant aim of all medical care which
  includes first aid is to save lives and minimize
  the threat of death.

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• 2. Prevent Further Harm
• Prevent further damage also sometimes called
  avoid the condition from worsening, or risk of
  further injury, which covers both external
  factors, such as moving a patient away from any
  cause of harm and applying first aid techniques
  to stop worsening of the condition, such as
  applying pressure to stop a bleed.

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• 3. Promote Recovery
• To start the recovery process from the sickness
  or injury, and in some cases might involve
  completing treatment, such as in the case of
  applying a plaster to a small wound.

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Prevents the situation from becoming worse

• The trained person know how to keep the situation
  from becoming bad to worse.
• They will provide temporary treatment which will
  keep the condition of the victim from
  depreciating, till expert help arrives.

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First Aid Training

• First aid knowledge and skills promote safety
  awareness in home, at work, at play, on streets
  and highways.
• Taking first aid training a person is prepared to
  assist others wisely. 
• He is able to distinguish between what to do and
  what not to do. 

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Basic First Aid Training Guidelines

• Key Components of primary observation
• 1. Breathing
• 2. Airways
• 3. Circulation

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• Breathing
• 1. Can victim speak?
• 2. Look, at chest rising and falling?
• 3. Listen, do you hear air going in and out of
  airways?
• 4. Feel, do you feel air touching your chhek?

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• Airway
• 1. Is it open and functional
• If not correct. Consider cause or mechanism
  of injury.
• 2. Airways may be obstructed.

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• Circulation
• 1. To determine a heartbeat.
• Is breathing or movement present? If not
  assume to heartbeat and start CPR.
• 2. Control severe bleeds with the pressure
  dressing immediately.

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