One undesirable aspect of the modern world is that there are a lot of hazardous materials that surround us. As a trained first aider, you may respond in emergencies that involve hazardous materials. When responding in accidents that involve hazardous materials, you should remember one basic first aid principle: DO NOT attempt to rescue if […]
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Reality star and former Mr. Sandra Bullock, Jesse James, accidentally chopped off the tip of his right pinky in a shop accident in his garage in Austin, Texas. What happened was that his glove got caught in one of the machines in his motorcycle shop and took the finger off with it. He and his
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Night terrors are a kind of sleep disorder, where the person wakes up quickly from their sleep due to nightmares in a frightened state of mind. Night terrors usually occur at night as most of us have our sleep at night. The sudden awakening from their deep sleep causes the person to wake up in a
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Almost everyone has experienced a headache at least once in their lives. It is, in fact, the most common form of pain. Headache is pain or discomfort felt in the head, scalp or neck. The pain initiates from the tissues and structures surrounding the brain. The brain has no nerves that give rise to pain
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Every so often people confuse nausea and vomiting with each other. However, there is a significant difference between the two. Nausea is the uneasiness of the stomach which usually precedes vomiting. The forceful ejection of the contents of the stomach through the mouth, and sometimes through the nose, is called vomiting, or throwing up.
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Post traumatic stress disorder or commonly abbreviated as PTSD is the development of characteristic symptoms following a psychologically stressful event that is considered outside the boundaries of normal human experience (e.g., sexual assault, war, motor vehicular accidents, terrorist attack, natural calamities/catastrophes). People suffering from PTSD generally experience momentary episodes of anxiety and depression when reminded
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Basic First Aid Training Is Important For Everyone Basic First Aid training is essential to everybody, and it must be taught from the early childhood stage, by doing so we shall prevent the condition from worsening, or danger of further injury and thus create awareness for every person on how to save a life. Life-saving
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Cardiac arrest happens without any warning signals, which is one reason why countless people die from it every day. Surviving cardiac arrest depends on early administration of cardiopulmonary resuscitation or CPR. Unfortunately, regular citizens only perform CPR about 15% to 30% of the time, contributing to the low survival rates of victims of cardiac arrest.
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Australian long-distance swimmer Chloe McCardel was forced to abandon her attempt of being the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage when she was stung by a swarm of jellyfish. She described the pain as “explosions hitting my body” and was paralyzed from waist down by the pain of the
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Stopping the bleeding is very vital to the care and management of individuals in an emergency or disaster situations in order for them to increase their chances of survival. An extreme blood loss that results in the reduction of circulating blood volume is primarily the main cause of hypovolemic shock. Minor bleeding (such ass venous
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