Basic First Aid

for your Child

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

 Topics
• What is First Aid
• First Aid vs Emergency situation
• What to do about wounds
• Fracture and dislocation
• Choking
• Epilepsy

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

 First Aid
• Accidents may occur at anytime
• Doing something for your child before
getting medical attention.
• Good knowledge to learn
• Prevent further complications

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

 First Aid in an Emergency
• Emergency is a sudden illness or accident that
is life threatening.
• Accidents: Falls, sharp or blunt objects, etc
• Medical: Severe asthma, high fever, etc.
• First aid provide physical or/and psychological
relief

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

 First Aid vs Emergency
It is an emergency when:
• bleeding for more than 10minutes
• extensive head injury
• poison
• fever > 39 degrees
• 2 nd or 3rd degree burns

• others.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

 Wound management
• Types of wound
• abrasions
• Cuts (laceration)
• Avulsion
• Burns

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

 Wound Management
Abrasions What can you do?
- clean wound using sterile water
- apply antiseptic solution/cream
- use opsite (water proof)
- or just leave it to dry

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

 Wound Management
Cuts What can you do
- Clean around the wound using sterile
water and antiseptic solution/cream
- Apply melolin/gauze over the wound
- Apply bandage to secure wound

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

 Wound Management
What can you do
Avulsion - Try to clean around the wound using
sterile water and antiseptic solution/
cream
- Close the flap
- Apply gauze over the wound
- Apply bandage to secure wound

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

 Wound Management
Burns What can you do
- immediately run through water
for 10 minutes
- do not burst any blister
- for severe burns use a burn
dressing (if possible)
- may use laceration or avulsion
dressing methods.
- use

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

 Practical time
• Cleaning wound
• Applying dressing
• Need to see doctor?

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

 Fracture and dislocation
management
• Fracture is a break in continuity of a bone
• Dislocation only occurs within joints

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

 Fracture and dislocation
management
• How to manage fracture

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

 Fracture and dislocation
management
• How to manage dislocation

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

 Practical time
• Golden Rule for fracture
• Making an immobilizer using bandage and
hard objects.
• Need to see doctor?

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

 Choking Child
• When there is an obstruction in the pipe
that leads to the lung
• Difficulty in breathing
• Shows the universal sign
• usually cause by food, objects or illness

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

 Choking Management
• Heimlich maneuver

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

 Practical time
• Child Heimlich maneuver
• Need to see doctor?

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

 Epilepsy Management
• What is epilepsy
• Unconscious vs Conscious fits

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

 Epilepsy Management
• What can you do?
1. Understand the aura
2. Know the trigger
3. Prepare a safe place for the the fits to pass
4. Do not put anything in the mouth.
5. Ambulance should be called when
a. fits last more than 5 minutes
b. first time
c. continuous fits of 3 episodes or more without any
significant break in between

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

 Thank you
Questions?

Tuesday, February 8, 2011