FIRST AID MANUAL
FIRST AID SKILLS MASTERY APP
Must read for everybody.
American Heart Association says :
"We define first aid as the assessments and interventions that can be performed by a bystander (or by the victim) with minimal or no medical equipment. We strongly believe that education in first aid should be universal: everyone can learn first aid and everyone should"
From - 2010 American Heart Association and American Red Cross Guidelines for First Aid
9. CAROTID PULSE
1) Keep a finger at the mid-line of chin
2) Slide the finger down the mid-line of throat until you feel the bone of the voice box
or Adam's apple
3) At the first feel of a bone slide the finger to the left or right until the bone feel ends
and a groove is felt
4) Somewhere near the end of the bony feel a pulse is felt if present which is carotid
pulse
5) Absence of carotid pulse is a sure sign of cardiac arrest
6) If you cannot feel the pulse assume it is absent