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First Aid for Families: Home, Road and Outdoors in South Africa

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A practical, South African guide to helping an injured or suddenly ill person until trained help arrives, at home, on the road and outdoors, for parents and carers, crèche and early childhood practitioners, students, sports players and coaches, farm and rural families, and anyone who wants to be ready. Twelve chapters follow a crèche owner in Umlazi with two children of her own, a sheep farmer near Carnarvon two hours from the nearest hospital, and a first-year student in Mahikeng who hikes and plays rugby, with advice from a retired trauma nurse in Durban who now teaches first-aid courses: safety first, protecting yourself and calling 112, 10177 or 10111; consent and the law in general terms; checking a casualty and the recovery position; CPR for adults, children and babies, and using a defibrillator; choking; bleeding, wounds and shock; burns, scalds and electric shock; head, neck and back injuries, fractures, slings and sprains, and concussion in sport; heart attack, stroke, asthma, diabetic emergencies, seizures and severe allergic reactions; poisoning, snakebite, scorpions, bee stings and dog bites; heat, cold, drowning, lightning and first aid far from help; sick babies and children, fever, dehydration, a safer home, and older people; and road crashes, first-aid kits, first aid at work and choosing an accredited course. This book is not an accredited first-aid course and does not lead to a certificate: it prepares you for one and tells you how to choose it. No medicines are given beyond the casualty's own inhaler or auto-injector, and aspirin only as the emergency call-taker advises. 30 diagrams and photographs, worked examples, practice exercises with answers, and a family emergency file: an emergency numbers card, a home safety check, a CPR and choking quick guide, first-aid kit lists, a kitchen burns plan, a medicines and allergies list, a poisons check, an outdoor safety plan, a child and older-person check, a when-to-go-to-hospital card, what to tell the ambulance, a glossary, where to get help, and 144 Exam prep questions. A Skills Series title. No kit, medicine, device, course-provider or ambulance brands are named or recommended. Lecturers: a free Facilitator Guide (session plans built around a family emergency file, manikin-only practice, the law taught in general terms, teaching notes and every answer) is available to colleges registered with HybridE. To register your college, contact Thandeka on 073 431 6763.

What is inside

  1. Chapter 1: First Aid, Safety and Calling for Help
  2. Chapter 2: The First Minutes: Checking a Casualty
  3. Chapter 3: CPR and Defibrillators
  4. Chapter 4: Choking
  5. Chapter 5: Bleeding, Wounds and Shock
  6. Chapter 6: Burns, Scalds and Electric Shock
  7. Chapter 7: Head, Neck, Back, Bones and Joints
  8. Chapter 8: Sudden Illness
  9. Chapter 9: Poisoning, Bites and Stings
  10. Chapter 10: Heat, Cold, Water and the Outdoors
  11. Chapter 11: Babies, Children and Older People
  12. Chapter 12: Road Crashes, Work and Training
  13. Appendix

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