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First Aid Daily: 4.5 DR.ABC – Call-Check-CPR
Let’s concluded our DR.ABC breakdown with the longest section. As we discussed previously, the breathing status of our casualty determines our actions in this stage of the primary survey. ‘C’ stands for “Call-Check-CPR” If the casualty is breathing, we must place them in the recovery position, which we shall cover in the coming weeks. We
First Aid Daily: 4.4 DR.ABC – Breathing
Here’s a critically important part of our Primary Survey, ‘B’, breathing. Breathing is something I haven’t had much luck with recently after a bad case of tonsillitis. However in ‘DR.ABC’, it is a vitally important step to get correct. In essence, all we have to do is check if the casualty is breathing normally. We
First Aid Daily: 4.3 DR.ABC- Airway
One dose of food poisoning and a chest infection later but I’ve recovered. we’re over halfway now in our ‘DR.ABC’ breakdown, today we have an easy one. ‘A’, Airways. We as human beings need oxygen to breath, and this is taken in through our mouth and nose along several passages into our lungs. If we
First Aid Daily: 4.2 'DR.ABC'- Sending for help.
Day three of our ‘DR.ABC’ breakdown, and rather weirdly we’re covering ‘.’ . Yes, that is a full stop. Simply put there are two acronyms commonly used, both with the same breakdown. ‘DR.ABC’ and ‘DRSABC’. So what is this segment? Shout/send for help. We need to remember that the primary survey isn’t used that often
First Aid Daily: 4.1-'DR.ABC'- Assessing Response
So it’s now day two of our ‘DR.ABC’ breakdown and we’re doing ‘R’. Response. All too commonly when teaching students who have little previous experience in first aid, ‘response’ is typically one of the harder points to remember within the acronym. Within the primary survey, it is important to remember that ‘response’ refers to the
First Aid Daily: 4.0- 'DR.ABC'- Managing and Minimising Danger
Here we go, this week we’re breaking down each letter of the ‘DR.ABC’ acronym, one of the very first things most people learn during their introduction to emergency first aid. So today, we’re doing ‘D’. Danger. I remember how overly exaggerated this aspect was taught when I first learned First Aid in the Cadet forces, and
First Aid Daily: 3- Frostnip and Frostbite, trying to keep your fingers on..
I’ll do my best with this post to avoid the temptation of putting images of grim frostbitten limbs at the end… It is seeming to be quite a bitter winter now, with the first snowfall in some areas. Luckily, unless anybody plans on heading up Ben Nevis over the next few weeks, frostbite will hardly
First Aid Daily: 2- Fighting hypothermia, wherever you are.
I can always tell it’s getting colder, not by the weather app on my phone, but by how much money I’m hemorrhaging into my local cafe for takeaway coffees. Here in Bath the temperature really has plummeted. Still, it beats being back at my old college in Norway, there’s already 1ft of snow there….. So
First Aid Daily : 1- Hypothermia- recognition of the Winter Killer
Unless you’ve been inside for the past few weeks, you’ll have noticed that we’re quickly approaching the time of the year were the temperature dramatically starts to drop, and once again it seems a lot of newspapers seems to be predicting that the British Isles are going to experience the “coldest winter in ‘X’ number