The Basic First Aid Procedure

The importance of First Aid is hard to overestimate. The largest benefits of First Aid are:

It allows those trained with the potentially life saving ability to assist an injured or ill person during a variety of emergency situations.

First aid helps ensure that the right methods of administering medical assistance are provided.

Knowing how to help a person is just as important in emergency situations. It only takes six minutes for the human brain to expire due to lack of oxygen.

First aid is emergency care given immediately to an injured person.

The purpose of first aid is to minimize injury and future disability. In serious cases, first aid may be necessary to keep the victim alive.





For Bleeding
you need to expose the injured so that you can see if the wound is big or minor then you need to put some pressure and to control the bleeding. you need to have some equipment to cleanse the injured part and put some dressing to control the bleeding, while dealing with the injured person you need to talk to them how they feel or if there is uncomfortable. then when you tie the cloth it should be breathable not to tight.



 
For Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)

How to Do CPR: 7 Essential Steps of CPR Everyone Should Know

Doing CPR right away can double or even triple a person’s chance of surviving cardiac arrest.


If a person is not breathing, his heartbeat will stop. Do CPR (chest compressions and rescue breaths) to help circulation and get oxygen into the body. (Early use of an AED, if one is available, can restart a heart with an abnormal rhythm.
First, open a person’s airway to check if they are breathing (don’t begin CPR if a patient is breathing normally). Then, get help. If you are not alone, send someone to call for help as soon as you have checked breathing. Ask the person to come back and confirm that the call has been made. (Check out these emergency first-aid kit essentials.)


Then follow these steps:
1. Position your hand (below). Make sure the patient is lying on his back on a firm surface. Kneel beside him and place the heel of your hand on the centre of the chest.

2. Interlock fingers (below). Keeping your arms straight, cover the first hand with the heel of your other hand and interlock the fingers of both hands together. Keep your fingers raised so they do not touch the patient’s chest or rib cage.

3. Give chest compressions (below). Lean forward so that your shoulders are directly over the patient’s chest and press down on the chest about two inches. Release the pressure, but not your hands, and let the chest come back up.
Repeat to give 30 compressions at a rate of 100 compressions per minute. Not sure what that really means? Push to beat of the Bee Gees song “Stayin’ Alive. (These are 40 secrets surgeons won’t tell you.)

Note: The American Heart Association recommends Hands-Only CPR (CPR without rescue breaths, which are detailed below) for people suffering out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. According to the AHA, only about 39 per cent of people who experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest get immediate help before professional help arrives; doing Hands-Only CPR may be more comfortable than doing rescue breaths for some bystanders and make it more likely that they take action. The AHA still recommends CPR with compressions and breaths for infants and children and victims of drowning, drug overdose, or people who collapse due to breathing problems.

4. Open the airway (below). Move to the patient’s head. Tilt his head and lift his chin to open the airway again. Let his mouth fall open slightly.

5. Give rescue breaths (below). Pinch the nostrils closed with the hand that was on the forehead and support the patient’s chin with your other hand. Take a normal breath, put your mouth over the patient’s, and blow until you can see his chest rise.

6. Watch chest fall. Remove your mouth from the patient’s and look along the chest, watching the chest fall. Repeat steps five and six once.

7. Repeat chest compressions and rescue breaths. Place your hands on the chest again and repeat the cycle of 30 chest compressions, followed by two rescue breaths. Continue the cycle.








Choking in Adults
Ask if they need your help
Encourage the person to cough. They should be able to clear it themselves by coughing.
Slap it out
• If coughing doesn’t work, help the casualty bend forward.
• Use the heel of your hand to give up to five sharp back blows between their shoulder blades.
• Check their mouth to see if there’s anything in there and, if there is, get them to pick it out.
squeeze it out



Chocking infant
Assume a seated position and hold the infant face down on your forearm, which is resting on your thigh. Support the infant's head and neck with your hand, and place the head lower than the trunk.
Thump the infant gently but firmly five times on the middle of the back using the heel of your hand. The combination of gravity and the back blows should release the blocking object. Keep your fingers pointed up to avoid hitting the infant in the back of the head.
Turn the infant face up on your forearm, resting on your thigh with the head lower than the trunk if the infant still isn't breathing. Using two fingers placed at the center of the infant's breastbone, give five quick chest compression. Press down about 1 1/2 inches, and let the chest rise again in between each compression.
Repeat the back blows and chest thrusts if breathing doesn't resume. Call for emergency medical help.
Begin infant CPR if one of these techniques opens the airway but the infant doesn't resume breathing.