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First aid

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BBC Health: First Aid Action: Interactive first aid course from the BBC. An overview of the importance of first aid is provided with sections on essential skills relating to incidents including heart attacks, bleeding, drowning, choking, poisoning, electrocution, spinal injuries, eye injuries and scalds and burns. Home skills includes tests on caring for adults and caring for children and there is further information on how to gain first aid qualifications. Additional features include a reference guide to first aid techniques, transcripts of live chats with a doctor, games and quizzes, and a first aid glossary.
Author: BBC
Subjects: first aid, medical guides
DeweyClass: 362.1
Resource type: guide
Complete Home Medical Guide: Searchable online book intended as a general reference source for health care providers and consumers. The six major sections cover using the US health care system; wellness; symptoms; first aid; treatment and prevention; and proper use of medications. Chapters include understandable explanations of the topic, and selective descriptions of diseases or abnormalities.
Author: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Subjects: first aid, health care, medical guides, preventive medicine
DeweyClass: 613
Resource type: reference book
First Aid Cafe: Offers a listing of over 1500 first aid training providers in the UK. Also provides a discussion forum for first-aiders and a database of links to relevant resources.
Author: Arnold, David
Subjects: first aid
DeweyClass: 362.1
Resource type: directory, index
ICRC: International Committee of the Red Cross: The ICRC acts to help all victims of war and internal violence, attempting to ensure implementation of humanitarian rules restricting armed violence.
Author: International Committee of the Red Cross
Subjects: emergency medicine, first aid, humanitarian relief
DeweyClass: 361.77
Resource type: documents
Lacie E King's First Aid Page: Basic first aid guidelines to deal with several eventualities. There is a first aid dictionary, first aid kit advice, and sections on bites and stings, burns, cuts and abrasions, dislocations, fainting, fractures, frostbite, hypothermia, nosebleeds, poisoning, sprains, strains, asphyxiation, bleeding, choking, concussions and contusions, convulsions, electric shock, and heatstroke.
Author: King, Lacie E.
Subjects: first aid
DeweyClass: 362.18
Resource type: guide
MedicineNet: Articles providing health information including news, and details of diseases and treatments. Features a medical dictionary and pharmacy, together with first aid facts in the event of injuries such as bumps and bruises, burns, cuts, scrapes and puncture wounds, dental injuries, frostbite, insect stings, and nosebleeds. A list of poison control centres is also included.
Author: MedicineNet
Subjects: first aid, medical guides, pharmacy
DeweyClass: 610
Resource type: articles
Oxford University First Aid Unit: Includes information on first aid training courses available, such as basic life support, emergency aid and first aid at work. Also provides general information on the history and aims of the unit, joining the group and on making blood and bone marrow donations.
Author: Oxford University First Aid Unit
Subjects: first aid, public safety
DeweyClass: 362.18
Resource type: interactive guide
Ready.gov: Instructions on how to make a kit of emergency supplies, construct a plan of action if disaster strikes, and obtain information on possible terrorist or other threats. Specific advice on what to do in the event of biological, chemical, and radiation threats is available, as well as steps to follow should an explosion or nuclear blast take place.
Author: US Department of Homeland Security
Subjects: first aid, warfare
DeweyClass: 320.9
Resource type: guide
Resuscitation Council: Group concerned with educating health professionals and the general public in resuscitation. Focuses on teaching, creating guidelines, publishing training materials, maintaining standards, and encouraging associated research. Provides a listing of council courses and forthcoming events.
Author: Resuscitation Council
Subjects: first aid, medical education, medical guides, primary care
DeweyClass: 362.1
Resource type: institution
World Wide Wounds: Journal of wound management practice covering wound care and dressings. Includes discussion forum.
Author: Surgical Materials Testing Lab
Subjects: first aid, surgery
DeweyClass: 617.14
Resource type: forum, journal