⚠️ Codename: first aid skill check ⚠️

📄Debrief

 

Every one of us has a responsibility to know the basics of first aid for situations that we may unfortunately encounter based on our environment, lifestyle, profession, or hobbies. Many people don't place a high enough sense of urgency around understanding wound care.

🔺Action Items

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The goal here is not learn overly complex items that should be reserved only for medical professionals. However, now is your chance to learn the basics. If you are in a SHTF event, a doctor may not be available to assist, but even in a non-SHTF situation you should know how to stabilize an injury until proper medical care is available.

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❎ Take a Stop the Bleed course.

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❎ Take a Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) course.

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❎ Get certified in CPR & Mouth-to-Mouth Resuscitation.

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❎ Learn the Heimlich Maneuver.

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❎ Learn to recognize some of the most common medical emergency situations like Heart Attack, Stroke, Cardiac Arrest, Seizure, Heat Stroke, Hypothermia, & Shock - understanding the symptoms will better allow you to communicate the details of the situation to first responders.

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❎ Learn to apply a tourniquet on yourself and someone else, practice often!