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
13. BACK BLOWS HOWTO
BACK BLOWS (For a choking conscious infant)
1) Place the infant face down on your forearm
2) Keep the baby and the forearm on your thigh
3) Use the thumb and fingers to steady the jaw and the baby
4) Hold the baby such that head is lower than the buttocks
5) Using the heel of your hands give 5 back blows between the baby's
shoulder blades
BACK BLOWS (For a choking conscious adult)
1. Stand on the side and littel towards the back of the victim
2. Support the patient by putting one arm from behind across the front of the victims chest
3. Get the patient ot bend at wiast until the chest is parallel to the ground
4. Give five back blows to the area between the shoulder blade