Emergency Training:

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• Emergency Training
• First Aid

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Overview

• Checking an Ill or Injured Adult
• CPR
• Unconscious Choking
• Conscious Choking
• External Bleeding
• Burns
• Poisoning
• Head, Neck or Spinal Injury

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Checking an Ill or Injured Adult

• Check for responsiveness by tapping on the
  shoulder and asking, Are you ok?
• If no response call 911.
• Open the airway by tilting the head
• and lifting the chin.
• 4. Check for breathing for no more than
• 10 seconds, occasional gasps is not
• breathing.
• 5. Quickly scan for bleeding.
• 6. If not breathing, proceed with CPR or
• use Automatic External Defibrillator
• (AED) if available.
• 7. If breathing, maintain open airway
• and monitor for change in condition.

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CPR

• Give 30 chest compression
• Push hard, push fast in the middle of the
• chest at least two inches deep.
• Give two rescue breaths
• Tilt the head back and lift the chin.
• Pinch the nose and give a breath for
• one second for the chest to clearly
• rise.
• Do not stop
• Continue CPR until you are unable or medical
  personnel have arrived.
• If breaths do not make chest rise even after
  retilting head, go to unconscious choking.

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Unconscious Choking

1. Give rescue breaths.
2. Give 30 chest compressions.
3. Look for and remove object if seen.
4. Give two rescue breaths.
5. If breaths do not make chest rise, repeat steps
   2-4.

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Conscious Choking

• Give 5 back blows
• Bend person over at the waist and use
• heel of hand to hit between shoulder
• blades.
• Give 5 abdominal thrusts
• Place hands in middle of abdomen with thumb
  against their body above their belly
• button, with other hand covering your
• fist and give upward thrusts.
• Continue care.
• If person becomes unconscious call 911 and go to
  unconscious choking care.

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External Bleeding

• Cover the wound with sterile dressing
• Apply direct pressure until bleeding stops
• Cover the dressing with a bandage
• Apply more pressure and call 911
• 5. If bleeding does not stop, apply more
  dressing and pressure. Also take steps to
  minimize shock by laying person down, elevating
  feet, and do not raise the persons head. Shock
  symptoms include pale skin, weakness, rapid
  pulse, and increased rate or irregular breathing.

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Burns

1. Remove from source of burn.
2. Cool the burn under running water until pain is
   relieved.
3. Cover loosely with sterile dressing.
4. Call 911.
5. Care for shock.

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Poisoning

1. Be aware of the scene and the injured so that you
   can identify the cause of poisoning.
2. If person is unconscious, not breathing, or has
   change in consciousness call 911.
3. If person is conscious, call the National Poison
   Control Center at 1-800-222-1222 and follow
   advice given.

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Head, Neck and Spinal Injuries

1. Call 911.
2. Minimize movement of head, neck, and spine.
3. Stabilize head to keep it in position it was
   found in by placing hands on either side of the
   head.

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Stroke

• Think F.A.S.T
• Face Ask the person to smile, does their
• face drop?
• Arm Ask the person to lift their
• arms. Does one drift down?
• Speech Ask the person to repeat a simple
  sentence. Is their speech slurred and can they
  repeat it correctly?
• Time Call 911 immediately if you see any signs
  of stroke and take note of when the
  signals were apparent to tell EMS.

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Questions, Concerns, Assistance

• For Questions, Concerns, and Assistance please
  contact Human Resources
• Steve Sager
• Director of Human Resources, Airborne Global
  Solutions
• Phone [phone]
• Email steve.sager_at_airborneglobal.com
• References
• "Adult First Aid/CPR/AED Ready Reference."
  American Red Cross. The American National Red
  Cross, 2011. Web. 26 Jul 2012. lthttp//editiondigi
  tal.net/publication/?i63248gt.

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