Case of help

What to put in a case of help?

A case of help can be summarized with a pair of latex gloves in a plastic bag, and can go until a backpack filled. We will list what can be in a case, by order of importance, free with each one after composing his according to its knowledge, of the risks of the activities and the situations, and the constraints.

---- Note : in the professional framework (Rescuer-first-aid worker of work), the composition of the case is responsibility for the company doctor. In the same way, for certain activities, of the texts can fix the material recommended (for example for activities of leisure, a note of information of the ministry for Youth and sports for federation). ----

Note that the gloves périment, they must be preserved safe from heat, to be controlled regularly (for example every year), and kept absolutely clean.

To think of changing the piles of the lamp (for example once per annum with preventive measure) and to have a bulb of replacement. A disinfectant out of bottle is appropriate well for the house. For the mobile cases, to prefer the preimpregnated compresses. The unidoses avoid with the product of périmer after the opening. The product can be coloured (the color leaves to washing and does not hide the signs of infection). By plane, the metal objects (in particular scissors) must travel out of compartment.

The paper paper and pencil make it possible to note the hour of installation of a garrot, or to note the information given by the victim or its entourage while waiting for the arrival of the helps. The paper pencil does not fall broken down from ink, written under the rain, and is cut easily with any cutting object; to prefer a soft lead pencil (3B, 4B, 5B).

To think of regularly controlling (for example once per annum, and before undertaking a voyage) the products, which freeze the winter and heat the summer…

For the kiss of life, one sells also protection masks of pocket. But it is necessary in all the cases knowledge to make use of this material, if not artificial ventilation is ineffective… If one can legitimately have a reserve to pose his mouth on the mouth of an unknown person, it should be known that no case of transmission of forever listed disease. One can interpose a handkerchief if necessary, or to practice the Stop-with-nose, the important thing is that blowings are effective (good rocker of the head, good sealing, the chest must start to be raised into blowing without excessive effort).

Drugs

The regulation of the drugs is exclusive spring of a doctor. The drugs on sale free will be bought on the councils of the pharmacist. Moreover, the drugs have an expiry date which should imperatively be respected. For these three reasons, the drug strictly speaking do not form part of a case of help, but rather of a separate first-aid kit; one will endeavor here only to give to some general principles.

Initially, if there is a treatment in progress, or to take in the event of occurred of a disease or a reaction known and diagnosed by a doctor, it is advisable to have the drugs with carried hand with the ordinance (to envisage a photocopy, to preserve the original for the purchases in pharmacy). If one undertakes a voyage abroad, the doctor will be able to prescribe a specific treatment according to the risks of the country (for example drugs against the Paludisme, against the Diarrhée…), of the drugs with preventive measure (for example Anti-inflammatory drug, Antipyrétique - to make fall the Fever) as well as drugs known as “from comfort”, for example against the evil of transport or the reaction to the insect bites or the plants urtiquantes; it will check occasion consequently that necessary vaccinations are quite up to date. In all the cases, it is appropriate of good lira the note of each drug before the departure, and to preserve the ordinance within reach. In the countries where the medical organization is failing, one will be able to plan to carry syringes; if a local doctor must make a puncture, as much as it is with its own syringe… The Reading of the Manual of routard or the tourist guides can be an invaluable information source.

Sports at the risk

Certain sports involve specific risks, and are often practiced far from the help centres and hospitals. Thus the navigator Bertrand of Pitcher of the Vendée Globe remotely had recoudre itself the language helped of the Médecin Jean-Yves Chauve… In this case, it is advisable to follow a specific training, which can be exempted by the sporting federation or the organizer of the test, and to be documented.

See too

Internal bonds

Gestures of first urgency
Bobologie

External bonds

Your cases - Week of Canadian civil protection 2006

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