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Medical Emergencies –
Need to develop Basic Life
Support Skills in every child
First aid for schools
• Every year, 150,000 people die in situations
where first aid could have given them a chance
to live.
• Even so, fewer than one in 10 people have
been trained in first aid.
• We want every young person to have the
opportunity to learn basic life saving skills at
school.
There is evidence that use of automated external
defibrillators (AEDs) by laypersons
improves rates of survival from cardiac arrest, but there is no
consensus on the optimal content and duration of training for
this purpose.
Efficacy of Bystander CPR
• University Medical Center of the Johannes GutenbergUniversity, Department of Anaesthesiology, Mainz,
Germany.
• However, in Germany most people attend a course on
emergency measures only once in their life, as at the
moment there is not any legally binding repetition of such
courses.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) by lay people has a special
importance in the care of emergency patients.
• First aid and BLS are in the first three links of the chain
of survival
• Bystander help during cardiac arrest is one of the
requirements for a successful resuscitation of a patient
• However, lay people can only play their role within the
chain of survival if they are adequately trained
Difference between a life lost and a life saved.
Factors influencing the behaviour of lay
people in emergency situations.
Motivation
Theoretical & Practical
knowledge
Competence
Side effects of BAD
First aid
• Delays definitive treatment
• Victim condition deteriorates
• Does no good/harm
Module to read signs of a
disturbed mind.
• Citizens with some training can find out if
someone has any mental health issues.
• 50% of suicide victims leave visible signs,
which if picked up in time, can save their
lives.
Look out FOR
• Change of body language to that of
resignation
• Sudden change in behaviour and
motivation
• Sleep anomalies and loss of appetite
• Giving away things that are dear
• Indicating life is worthless or it should be
ended
Four key themes
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student centred resource
context of learning
skill development
technological support
• Interactive photo-stories show how Kiran deals
effectively with four common first aid scenarios
and makes an emergency call.
• Young first aider
Young first aider fully comprehensive first aid
learning resource targeted for 14 to 16 year-olds.
Covering 15 first aid topics using lesson plans,
video clips, scenario cards, PowerPoint slides and
posters
A DVD- as a teaching aid
Four main components:
• Pre- and post-tests
• Best practice in ‘What, How, Why’
• Critical Thinking; problem-based scenarios like
suffocation, choking, heart attack
• BLS in special circumstances such as, pregnancy,
trauma and near drowning
Realistic scenarios are portrayed through video
footage
CENTRAL BOARD OF SECONDARY EDUCATION
(CBSE)
has issued a circular ‘Comprehensive School Health
Programme and Creating Health Club in the school’.
[Circular No. ACAD/EO/2006.]
‘People from all walks of life benefit from
learning First aid & BLS ’