First-Aid Guide – Table of Contents

Medical emergencies don’t occur every day. But when they do, information can help you deal with these situations.

• Immediate Action – Basic First Steps
  
• Anaphylaxis – Severe allergic reaction
  
• Animal bites
  
• Appendicitis – Pain in the lower right abdomen
  
• Asthma – Breathing difficulties
  
• Birthing – Delivering a Baby
  
• Black eye
  
• Blisters
  
• Broken Bones
  
• Bruise
  
• Burns
  
• Carbon Monoxide Poisoning – Asphyxiation
  
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
  
• Chemical burns
  
• Chemical splash in the eye
  
• Chest pain
  
• Choking – General:
  
  • First Aid for a Choking Conscious Adult
    
  • First Aid for a Choking Conscious Child – (1-8 years old)
    
  • First Aid for a Choking Conscious Infant (<1 years old)
    
• Corneal abrasion (scratch)
  
• CPR – Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation
  
• Cuts and scrapes
  
• Dislocation
  
• Electrical burns
  
• Electrical shock
  
• Fainting
  
• Fever
  
• First-aid kits
  
• Food-borne illness
  
• Foreign object in the ear
  
• Foreign object in the eye
  
• Foreign object in the nose
  
• Foreign object in the skin
  
• Foreign object inhaled
  
• Foreign object swallowed
  
• Fractures (broken bones)
  
• Frostbite
  
• Gastroenteritis
  
• Head pain
  
• Head trauma
  
• Heart attack
  
• Heat cramps
  
• Heat exhaustion
  
• Heatstroke
  
• Heimlich Manoeuver
  
• Human bites
  
• Hypothermia
  
• Insect bites and stings
  
• Motion sickness
  
• Nosebleeds
  
• Poisoning
  
• Puncture wounds
  
• Seizure
  
• Severe bleeding
  
• Shock
  
• Snakebites
  
• Spider bites
  
• Spinal injury
  
• Sprain
  
• Stroke
  
• Sunburn
  
• Tick bites
  
• Tooth loss
  
• Toothache