You have to be able to recognize the situation that you are in such as; the person is bleeding, maybe he/she is having a heart attack, or he/she is unconscious, etc. Check the scene for signs of how it happened or what happened. Look around for clues, such as labels if they have a health problem.
2 - Decide
If you are not sure whether you are able to do it, let someone else do it. Ask someone else who is able to do it or more confident to do it if you are too scared. You have think fast about the reasons why you don't want to help the person (example; sued by victim, creating more trouble, dangerous scene or fear)
If you've decided to help. You then start going through the process of Check/Call/Care. First you check if the scene is safe, put your gloves on, and check if the person is conscious. If conscious, seek approval to help, if unconscious, call for help first and then start caring. Check if the victim is breathing, if they are, leave them in the same position and check for other problems (bleeding). If not breathing, start the process of CPR (2 breaths and 30 chest compressions).
4 - Care
- You have to check the situation, put on your gloves on, and check for responsiveness, if the person is unconscious, send someone to go get help immediately.
- First, you have to check which side his head is facing (easier to roll him over), and put his head to the side that his face is not facing. Then you need to put his ankles in the same way so it's easier to flip over as well Also check that the person's arm closest to you is straight so you can turn the person over easily.
- You have to grab onto his pants near his hips/waist and put the other hand underneath his neck to in order to flip the person over (to prevent moving his spine or breaking any other bones). Then pull him towards yourself using your body weight.
- In order to check for breathing, put one hand on the forehead and one hand under the chin to tilt his head up to clear his airway. Then look towards his chest and listen/feel for breathing while looking to see if his chest rises. Take around 10 seconds for this. After checking that he is breathing, look for any injuries or bleeding.
- Put him into the recovery position, this requires rolling him back towards the other way again. So first, put the leg furthest from you up so that his sole is on the floor and his knee is facing up. Also make sure the hand furthest from you is straight. Then hold on to his neck from under (your forearm should be under his shoulder as well) and grab onto his pants (waist/hip) to push him away. Once on his side, bend the other leg so they're both bent above each other. Also most the other hand in front of his body as support so that he won't fall over.
You walk into health class and Mr Charman is lying face down on the floor. Explain/describe the steps that you will take once you have "decided to act". (once you start your care you find that he is unconscious but IS breathing)....i.e you need to describe the Front to Back/Back to Front method of caring for an unconscious breathing patient
