First I would like to say thank you for visiting my site on how to treat medical injuries quickly and efficiently. There are various procedures that can be taken in caring for an injury, but I am only going to teach you the basic ones. Now when I say basic, I don't mien five year old medical healing. I mean basic knowledge for the average person to be able to know and understand in a narrow amount of time. The following injuries and treatments should be read carefully, because even the most basic treatments can be the most lifesaving treatments.
WARNING: The following procedures are for informational purposes ONLY, this website is not responisble for incorrect treatment given by an unqualified person. Take classes in order to become first aid qualified.
Steps to be done before medical treatment is administered:
1. Make sure scene is safe (make sure no obstacles may harm you the rescuer while treating the vixtim)
2. Always wear some type of proctective gloves (dealing with blood and human substances should be handled precautiously so no harm will come to you the rescuer)
3. ALWAYS call 911 or your local emergency number for professional assistance
Treatment Cases:
Severe Bleeding: rapid blood loss
1. Locate source of bleeding
2. Stop the bleeding by applying direct pressure with a sterile cloth.
3. Keep firm pressure on the wound
4. Bandage tightly, but not to tight
5. Treat for shock (raise the victims feet a 45 degree anlge and cover the victim with a warm blanket or jacket)
Small cuts and lacerations: minor bleeding
1. Locate cut or laceration
2. Stop the bleeding
3. Clean the wound with cold water, or alcohol, or iodine prep pads.
4. Cover with a sterile bandage
Shock: fast pulse, rapid breathing, thirst, anxiety, cool skin
1. Rest victim down and ask if they are ok?
2. Check and make notes of anyother wounds and treat
3. Rest victims feet a 45 degree angle over with warm materials.
4. Keep victim company and at ease
Broken Bones: bending in an unusal way, swelling, intense pain
1. Sit the victim down (if standing)
2. Take two straight solid materials (such as sticks) and lay over broken bone above and below the brake
3. Be careful not to move broken area
4. Tie down the two materials firmly together
5. Check over splint you made and seek medical attentin quickly
1st Degree Burns: minor redness or irratation on skin
1. Take burned area and run under cool water until victim in satisfied that most of the pain is gone
2. Cover with a wet sterile bandage
2nd Degree burns: blisters forming
1. DO NOT....DO NOT apply burn cream
2. Run under cool water
3. Cover with mosit dressing and if severe enough have a doctor take a look at the burn
3rd Degree Burns: charred skin and can sometimes see the bone
1. DO NOT....DO NOT apply burn cream
2. Cover with mosit dressing and immediatly seek medical attention
Something in the Eye: pain in eye, unable to see clearly
1. Enduce watering of eyes
2. If does not work and materail is on top of eyelid then take the top eyelid and pull over bottom eyelid.
3. If on bottom eyelid then pull over top eyelid and allow eyes to water
Dehydration: lack of water, mouth dry, headache
1. Give victim small sips of water or liquid
2. Get into shade
Heat Exhaustion: skin sweating, headache, muscle cramps, clammy skin
1. Get victim into shade
2. Loosen victims clothing
3. Give victim small amounts of water at a time
Heat Stroke: VERY LIFE THREATENING (confusion, seizures, high body tempature, dry hot skin, change in behavior, delirious
1. Cool victim quickly
2. Sponge down with water
3. Give water in sips
4. Check for tempature every ten minutes, after body temapture drops to 102 degrees stop administrating cooling techniques
Frost Bite: cold extremities (fingers, toes) tingling, burning sinsation, numbness, may feel frozen solid
1. DO NOT rub or massage to try to warm extremities
2. Remove we clothing
3. If not near hospital put forst biten area in warm water, DO NOT allow to refreeze
4. If near hospital go to it
Severe Hypothermia: shivering stops (if still shivering only has minor hypthermia) cold to te touch, bluish
1. If not near hospital begin to warm victim gradually
2. Remove wet clothing
3. Wrap victim in blankets
4. Do not give coffee, alcohol, or tobbaco. Also do not massage.
Bites from Snakes and Spiders:
1. If poisonous seek medical attention IMMEDIATELY
2. If not poisonous clean wound and wrap in sterile bandage
Bee Stings: inflamed area where stung, pain
1. If stinger is still in wound use some type of card (credit card) to brush out stinger
2. DO NOT use tweezers
3. Clean out wounded area nd cover with sterile bandage
Ticks: black, or brown, or small little bug looking creatures that are stuck to your head
1. Brush hair aside from tick area
2. Grab tick by the head with tweezers
3. Pull tick out by the head with tweezers until fully out.
DO NOT use vasiline because that will sufficat te tick and you will ahve a dead tick stuck to your head
4. DO NOT use a match because the wtick may throw up before discharging from area leaving is food inside of you and may have diseases in it
5. DO NOT pull tick out by body because you may leave the head of the tick in you head leaving for disease
Blisters: lump on body part, soft or firm area
1. DO NOT pop the blister because you will leave it open to infection
2. Apply mole skin to blister (not actually a moles' skin, but a cloth that makes the blister less irritated |