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Survival L1 and L1.2
Survival L1 and L1.2
Survival L1 and L1.2
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Breathing 3RD DEGREE BURN
1. Leave burned
➢ Look for chest movements clothes on the skin. If
➢ Listen for sounds for breathing the face is burned,
➢ Feel for breathes on your cheek keep victim sitting
➢ If not breathing give 2 rescue breathes up. Keep airway
open, tilt head back.
Circulation Evaluate burned
arms, legs, hands.
➢ Is there a carotid pulse? Keep burn higher
➢ Is it strong? than heart. Call
➢ Is it regular” ambulance.
➢ Is there a major blood loss? Do not break blisters and CHEMICAL BURN
➢ IF NO PULSE PRESENT THEN START CPR (CIRCULATION attempt to remove the skin, as
PULSE RESPIRATION) it can cause infection. • Remove chemical causing
Immediately help victim who burn by washing the skin
COMMON INJURIES/SITUATION THAT NEEDS IMMEDIATE suffered from electrical burn under cool running water for
MEDICAL CARE without looking out if the at least 20 minutes. Remove
victim be in contact with it. all clothing or jewelry that may
be contaminated by the
NOSEBLEED chemical. After washing,
apply cool, wet cloth on the
DON’TS DO’S burn to relieve the pain.
Do not lean back Sit in a comfortable upright
position and lean forward ELECTRICAL BURN
slightly. • Call the ambulance
Leaning back can be harmful Then pinch your nose just immediately.
as the blood could block the below the bony nose bridge • Look out if there is any
windpipe, blocking the and above the fleshy lobes of contact with the electric
airway. the nostrils until the bleeding is source.
stemmed. • Turn off the electrical source
AFTERCARE: Once the or try move it by non
bleeding is controlled, do not – conducting object.
blow your nose as this might • Prevent shock by lying the
dislodge the clot and make child down and raising the
you bleed again. legs with an object. e.g. Pillow
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both hands ➢ Scrape
backwards into their ➢ Laceration - A cut skin with jagged, irregular edges and
stomach with a caused by a forceful tearing away of skin tissue.
hard, upward ➢ Incisions - Smooth edges and resemble a surgical or
movement. paper cut.
Do it five times (1 cycle), stop ➢ Punctures - Deep, narrow wounds such as a stab wound
each cycle to check if the from a nail or a knife in the skin and underlying organs.
blockage has been cleared.
➢ Avulsion - Flap of skin is torn loose and is either
ALERT!
hanging from the body or completely removed.
Do not thrusts on pregnant
and on a very large sized ➢ Amputation - Cutting or tearing off of a body part
adult. such as a finger, toe, hand, foot, arm, or leg.
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AMPUTATION ✓ Nail Scissors
✓ Antibiotic Cream
What to Do: ✓ Matches
✓ Ziploc Bags
➢ Control the bleeding
✓ First Aid Manual
➢ Treat the victim for shock
➢ Recover the amputated part and whenever possible
take it with the victim
o Responsive Victim
o Upper Extremity Checks:
• Victim wiggles fingers.
• Victim feels rescuer squeeze fingers
• Victim squeeze rescuer’s hand.
o Lower Extremity Checks:
• Victim wiggles toes.
• Victim feels rescuer squeezes toes.
• Victim pushes foot against rescuer’s hand.
What to Do:
Unresponsive Victim:
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