Unit 6: First Aid: Emergency Care

Unit 6: First Aid: Emergency Care

This unit reviews important steps that can be taken in life-threatening situations. The unit also discusses heart attacks, shock, and severe bleeding and what to do in each of these possibly fatal situations.

'Emergency care' means the performance of acts or procedures under emergency conditions in the observation, care and counsel of persons who are ill or injured or who have disabilities; in the administration of care or medications as prescribed by a licensed physician, insofar as any of these acts is based upon knowledge and application of the principles of biological, physical and social science as required by a completed course utilizing an approved curriculum in pre hospital emergency care. However, 'emergency care' does not include acts of medical diagnosis or prescription of therapeutic or corrective measures.

Unit Focus

• what first aid is and when first aid is used
• easily learned first aid techniques that can save lives
• what we should do at an accident scene or if someone suffers a sudden illness
• the information we should give over the phone during an emergency
• symptoms of a person who may be suffering from shock or a heart attack