Medical Emergencies
These tips are intended to be a guide for the lay person before an emergency. If a life threatening emergency exists, Call 911.
First Aid tips provided by the world renowned Mayo Clinic. As always, if in doubt call 911.
Also this link to the Red Cross Health and Safety Tips provides very good information.
- Anaphylaxis
- Animal bites
- Black eye
- Blisters
- Bruise
- Burns
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
- Chemical burns
- Chemical splash in the eye
- Chest pain
- Choking
- Corneal abrasion (scratch)
- Cuts and scrapes
- Dislocation
- Electrical burns
- Electrical shock
- Fainting
- Fever
- First-aid kits
- Food-borne illness
- Foreign object in the ear
- Foreign object in the eye
- Foreign object in the nose
- Foreign object in the skin
- Foreign object inhaled
- Foreign object swallowed
- Fractures (broken bones)
- Frostbite
- Gastroenteritis
- Head pain
- Head trauma
- Heart attack
- Heat cramps
- Heat exhaustion
- Heatstroke
- Human bites
- Hypothermia
- Insect bites and stings
- Motion sickness
- Nosebleeds
- Poisoning
- Puncture wounds
- Severe bleeding
- Shock
- Snakebites
- Spider bites
- Spinal injury
- Sprain
- Stroke
- Sunburn
- Tick bites
- Tooth loss
- Toothache
