How Having a First Aid Manual on Hand Can Help You Deal with Different Illnesses and Injuries
First aid refers to emergency help that must be provided to people that have injured them or who have fallen ill and such help is provided prior to medical assistance arriving in the form of a doctor, nurse or even ambulance officer. To be able to provide the necessary first aid, it will pay to have a first aid manual on hand which can be consulted in order to understand how best to impart first aid.
Ease Discomfort And Pain
The prime focus as far as providing first aid and more particularly human interactions with the patient is concerned must be to ease the injured person's discomfort as well as anxiety which can best be managed through providing reassurance as well as making the patient think about something other than their injury.
Life is full of times when it is necessary to deal with injuries as well as illnesses, and to treat them properly one must also have on hand a guide to first aid which can help you deal with common as well as not so common issues.
By reading a first aid manual and learning how to ease the pain and anxiety being felt by the patient you will help to promote the patient's recovery through helping to decrease their heart rate, which in turn will help lessen loss of blood and that in turn will dampen the shock being felt by the patient.
Another thing that you can learn by consulting a first aid manual is being able to make a correct assessment of the illness/injury and this you can do by finding out the history of the accident or illness through listening to the story of it from bystanders and/or witnesses and to also look for certain signs including signs of bleeding, swelling and vomiting as well smelling presence of alcohol in the patient's breath and even listening for any noisy breathing.
In addition, you will also need to notice symptoms in the patient such as headaches, pain in the abdominal region as well as pain in the chest. A first aid manual will also show you how to link history and signs as well as symptoms of their condition and thus arrive at a proper assessment of the illness or injury.
Typically, the history of illness or injury could include things such as sudden chest pain and the signs of it would include paleness of color as well as sweating, while symptoms would be chest pain (central) as well as pain in the left arm, which should lead to making the correct assessment that is that the patient is suffering a heart attack.
This is how consulting first aid manual can teach you that, under such circumstances you will need to call 000 without any delay. What's more, the first aid manual will also show you how to prioritize first aid and thus, you will learn that it is necessary to first of all deal with those problems that are life threatening and so, you will need to use a tool such as the Primary Survey before doing anything else and it includes understanding how to deal with dangers, response, airway, breathing, compression as well as defibrillation.
