Hot First Aid Posts
How To: Stop someone from bleeding
This video demonstrates first aid for serious bleeding. Lay the injured person down with head slightly lower than the trunk or elevate wound above the level of the heart. Apply pressure, after bleeding stops, wrap tight with sterile gauze bandage. Get medical help for the victim. Good video for camping or just good knowledge for home. Stop someone from bleeding.
How To: Treat poison ivy
Poison ivy and its nasty cousins, poison sumac and poison oak strike year round. Poison ivy is found as a vine, it has 3 leaves and can have berries. The poison is called urushiol. If exposed, wash with hot soapy water immediately. Mild reactions can be treated with antihistamines and hydrocortisone cream for itching. Serious reactions need medical attention immediately. Treat poison ivy.
How To: Help someone who is vomiting
Learn how to help someone who is vomiting. From our favorite British imports at videojug, learn some helpful tips for those who are sick to the stomach. We don't recommend this to the queasy. Help someone who is vomiting.
How To: Perform CPR on a child
This video demonstrates how give an child CPR in case of an emergency. The video walks you through waking the child, calling 911, breathing twice in the victims mouth, and compressing their chest 30 times.
How To: Administer basic first aid
In this online video series learn from certified First Aid and CPR Instructor Amy Pearson as she teaches and demonstrates first aid techniques.