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A seizure (fit) occurs due to excessive and disorganized electrical activity in our brain. A major seizure occurs when the victim falls to the ground and starts shaking uncontrollably. This is known as a tonic-clonic seizure....
First aid is all about treating injuries and illnesses at home before seeking medical help. If you don’t have a first aid kit available at home you can improvise using common household items. In...
First aid is the initial emergency care provided to an injured or unwell victim before the arrival of professional medical assistance. So why is first aid so important and why should you take the...
The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is a scoring system used to assess patients with a reduced level of consciousness. In this blog post, we’ll look at how to calculate a GCS score for a...
Bronchodilators open up constricted airways by relaxing the smooth muscle that lines the airway. It does this mainly by stimulating beta-adrenergic receptors on the smooth muscle. (A drug that stimulates a receptor is called...
Asthma is a chronic, inflammatory lung disease that is marked by recurrent breathing problems. Although breathing may proceed normally most of the time, there are episodes when the air passages in their lungs become...
If you teach first aid and CPR, you’ll need CPR manikins. As first aid instructors, we need to provide the best quality training possible for our learners. This means using realistic CPR manikins that...
Inflammation has many different causes. Everyone experiences some form of inflammation– redness, pain, and swelling in an injured or infected tissue. It is produced as a result of the body’s healing response. Inflammation follows...
COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) is defined as generally irreversible progressive chronic airflow obstruction. COPD is the 4th leading cause of death in the US. Some 14 million patients, 20% of adults, in the...
In this post, we’re going to look at cardiac arrhythmias. What exactly is an arrhythmia? The normal heartbeat is initiated at the sinoatrial (SA) node. An irregular heartbeat is known as an arrhythmia including...
Approximately 4.6 million people in the US are affected by congestive heart failure (CHF). First aiders and first responders may encounter a patient with CHF. In this blog post we’ll look at CHF in...
First aiders and first responders may encounter patients with a variety of different eye conditions. In this blog post we’ll discuss some of the most common eye conditions and what causes them. Cataracts Cataracts...
Airway obstruction occurs when children are unable to breathe normally because food or other objects block their internal airways (choking); materials cover or block their external airways (suffocation); or items become wrapped around their...
Both the Box Jellyfish and the Portuguese Man-of-War have long tentacles with stinging nematocysts, that deliver a powerful, painful sting, sometimes causing scarring, and in some very rare cases, cardiac arrest. Most beaches will...
