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First aid is the provision of initial limited care for an illness or injury. It is usually performed by a lay person to a sick or injured patient until definitive medical treatment can be accessed. Certain self-limiting illnesses or minor injuries may not require further medical care. It generally consists of series of simple and potentially life-saving techniques that an individual can be trained to perform with minimal equipment. While...


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First, second, or third degree describes the depth of injury. First-degree burns are the most shallow (superficial). They affect only the top layer of skin (epidermis). Second-degree burns extend into...

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can i train to do first aid at 16. any advice or suggestions please? wud...

You can train at pretty much any age. Read through a first aid manual, which you can probably get from a library to help you out.

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What first aid items are necessary to have in a home with a child?
All I can find are first aid kits with band-aids... Any suggestions? (For example, won't...

There are many sets of standard first-aid equipment in baby stores. In general, you will need to have a thermometer, infant Tylenol and/or ibuprofen, an icepack (it's nice to...

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    Hi Miriam, I wonder could you possbily give me any information about First Aid courses by night course, visit Public First Aid Course or if you want to organise work time training...

    Jun 03, 2008

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    what do you guys think of kaplan's medessentials? it looks like first aid, but with a lot more information. i will be using first aid, but i like that medessentials is an annotated first aid. what do

    Nov 13, 2006

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    Just out of interest how many of you carry some sort of first aid kit in your FTO? i did a first the blokes life. ever since i keep meaning to get a proper first aid kit to keep with me at all

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