| Choking |
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| Unconscious and not breathing |
- Do a primary survey
- Check if surrounding area is safe
- Check if patient is responding by shouting at them
- Phone for an ambulance
- Check breathing by tilting head backwards and look and feel for breaths (check if there are chest rises: adults 2 rises or child 4 rises or baby 6 rises per 10 seconds), if not:
- Do CPR
- Only stop CPR if one is tired, handing over to Medical healthcare professional upon their instruction or if there is sign of life
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| If not sure if breathing |
- Do a primary survey
- Check if surrounding area is safe
- Check if patient is responding by shouting at them
- Phone for an ambulance.
- Check breathing by tilting head backwards and look and feel for breaths.(check if there are chest rises: adults 2 rises or child 4 rises or baby 6 rises per 10 seconds), if not:
- If still unsure do CPR .
- Only stop CPR if one is tired, handing over to Medical healthcare professional upon their instruction or if there is sign of life.
- If breathing : Support the head and neck and ask others or oneself to carefully Move (roll) the person on their side in to a recovery position (if a baby: recovery position) and tilt their head back to protect their airway
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| If vomiting within body |
- Do a primary survey
- Check if surrounding area is safe
- Check if patient is responding by shouting at them
- Phone for an ambulance.
- Support the head and neck and ask others or one to carefully move (roll) the person on their side in to a recovery position (if a baby: recovery position) and tilt their head back to protect their airway.
- Check breathing by tilting head backwards and look and feel for breaths.(check if there are chest rises: adults 2 rises or child 4 rises or baby 6 rises per 10 seconds).
- If stop breathing do CPR
- Only stop CPR if one is tired, handing over to Medical healthcare professional upon their instruction or if there is sign of life
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| Unconscious and breathing |
- Do a primary survey
- Check if surrounding area is safe
- Check if patient is responding by shouting at them
- Phone for an ambulance.
- Support the head and neck and ask others or oneself to carefully Move (roll) the person on their side in to a recovery position (if a baby: recovery position) and tilt their head back to protect their airway.
- Check breathing by tilting head backwards and look and feel for breaths.(check if there are chest rises: adults 2 rises or child 4 rises or baby 6 rises per 10 seconds)
- If stop breathing do CPR
- Only stop CPR if one is tired, handing over to Medical healthcare professional upon their instruction or if there is sign of life
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| Pregnant : Unconscious and Breathing (Unique recovery position) |
- Do a primary survey
- Check if surrounding area is safe
- Check if patient is responding by shouting at them
- Phone for an ambulance.
- ‘The Resuscitation Council advises on collapse where the pregnant woman was unconscious but breathing, she should be placed in a left lateral tilt of 15 degrees to relieve compression of this artery and not in a full recovery position as you would with anyone else’
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-position-during-pregnancy.html
- An unconscious casualty who is heavily pregnant you should attempt to roll them onto their left side in a semi recovery position (do not push them all the way to the left hand side).
- This prevents the baby from compressing one of the main blood vessels in the abdomen.
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- Keep their legs apart (see if someone else can help) when moving patient to recovery position and place a pillow or jacket between their legs once in a semi recovery position.
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- Check breathing by tilting head backwards and look and feel for breaths.(check if there are chest rises: adults 2 rises per 10 seconds)
- If stop breathing do CPR
- Only stop CPR if one is tired, handing over to Medical healthcare professional upon their instruction or if there is sign of life
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| Fallen or suspect damage to their head and/or neck and/or spine and/or damaged/broken arm and/or hip and/or leg. |
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| Seizure |
- Ensure you are not in danger;
- If the person responds to instructions, move them to a quiet, private area and (preferably) sit them on the floor. If they do not respond to instructions, do not attempt to move them;
- Protect the person from harm. Look to remove nearby hazards that could hurt them. Guide the person, but never attempt to force or restrain them;
- Supervise the person at all times. If possible, try to cushion their head;
- Never put anything in the mouth of someone having a seizure;
- Try to ensure the person’s dignity is maintained (they may lose bladder control);
- Call an ambulance if the person has repeated seizures, if they injure themselves during a seizure, or if this is their first seizure;
- If the person is known to have epilepsy, start timing the seizure. If the seizure lasts two minutes longer than normal (or five minutes if you do not know how long the seizure usually lasts), call an ambulance;
- Once the seizure is over, do not attempt to ‘bring round’ the person by any method. If they are unconscious, place them in the recovery position;
- Once the person is conscious, speak calmly and tell them what happened.
- The person should not be given food or drink until they have recovered fully.
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DOI:10.1211/PJ.2015.20068108
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| Conscious and breathing |
- Do a primary survey
- Phone for an ambulance.
- Support the head and keep them still, warm and dry.
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