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Medical emergency response

A responder's steps when someone collapses or is badly hurt.

11 items · 5 sections · ert, emergency, first-aid, medical

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Safety (1)

  • Scene safe for you and the casualty

Check (2)

  • Shout and tap: do they respond?
  • Open the airway, check breathing for no more than 10 seconds

Call (3)

  • Emergency number called, location given
  • Someone sent for the AED
  • Someone sent to meet the ambulance at the door

Act (3)

  • Not breathing: chest compressions, 100 to 120 a minute, 5 cm deep
  • AED on as soon as it arrives, follow its voice
  • Breathing: recovery position, keep checking

Hand-over (2)

  • Tell the paramedics what happened and when
  • Write down times and what was done

Written from www.redcross.org

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