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Summary: How to carefully place a victim or injured person into the best recovery position; get expert tips and instruction for applying basic first aid, CPR, and other emergency medical treatment in this free instructional video.
Amy Pearson is certified to teach First Aid and CPR. She has been teaching these classes to staff at Opportunity Resources Inc. in Missoula, Montana, for nine years.read more
"Hi, my name is Amy, and today we are going to be talking about the recovery position. Once you have determined that the victim is indeed breathing and they have a pulse, the safest position for them to be in is on their side that way. If they begin to vomit or aspirate anything out of their lungs, they are less likely to breathe it in. First thing you want to do is you are going to roll them away from you. So you want to make sure that the arm that is on the side furtherest from you is placed above their head gently. That is the arm that is going to cradle their head. You then bring their leg that is closest to you up into a kneeling position like so because when you roll them over, this knee is actually going to catch them from rolling all the way over. Then again, it is always important to cradle the head, so as you roll them over onto their side, their head is cradled by their arm, and their knees stop them from rolling all the way over."
eHow Article: Basic First Aid: The Recovery Position
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faker1 said
on 8/2/2008 this must be the <us> version of recovery position, we have a UK version which pulls the casualty (not victim !) i like this one, but prefer our version