Basic First Aid: Creating an Anatomical Splint

Series Summary

First Aid is the first and immediate stage of care given to a victim of illness or injury. It seeks to stabilize the patient long enough for a trained health care professional to treat the illness or injury and is comprised of many techniques that persons without any health care degrees can administer, after being properly trained.

In this free online video series learn from certified First Aid and CPR Instructor Amy Pearson as she teaches and demonstrates such first aid techniques such as: anatomical splints, blistering burn care, care for a seizure patient, airway and breathing check, conscious victim check, controlling bleeding, the do's and don'ts of burn care, treating chemical burns and victims of electric shock, recovery position, and how to apply an arm sling.

Video Transcript

"Hi, I’m Amy, and we are going to be talking about anatomical splints. Sometimes it is necessary to splint an injury. If it’s a fracture, dislocation, sprain or strain, and very often you don’t have a splint available, so you can use a body part. We are going to suppose that one of Nita’s legs here is injured, so we are going to create an anatomical splint by binding one leg to the next. You can gently take the muslin fabric underneath and tie both below the side of the injury as well as above the side of the injury. Now the injured leg is secure, and if it is necessary to transport, you can do safely without causing further injury."