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Understanding Wilderness First Aid
Triaging Wilderness First Aid
Stay Calm when Treating a Wilderness Injury
Dealing With a Medical Emergency in the Wilderness
Assessing an Emergency Situation in the Wilderness
Getting Emergency Personnel to a Wilderness Accident
Treating Shock in the Wilderness
Planning for a Wilderness Emergency
Treating Leg Injuries in the Wilderness
Treating Head Injuries in the Wilderness
How to Treat an Arm Injury in the Wilderness
How to Treat a Knee Injury in the Wilderness
How to Treat a Foot Injury in the Wilderness
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Summary: Some wilderness injuries are true emergencies and should be taken care of immediately. Find out how to assess emergency situations in the wilderness.
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"Alright so one of the first things that you will want to do after you have surveyed the seen and you come up on accident. Is you will want to make sure that you hurried cases are taken care of. Those include a victim who's not breathing. Someone who's been poisoned. Someone who's chocking. Someone who's got sever bleeding and any life threating situation you want to go ahead and eliminate those. So you know if have got sever bleeding. Pressure is one of the easiest way to eliminate it. Go ahead and get a bandage around it if you have got someone who is choking go ahead and follow your choking procedures. Go ahead and you can give the Heimlich which is not as recommended as other procedures now but go ahead and get yourself trained to in those facets on how to deal with a victim who is chocking. You know when ever you get into a heart beat stopping you should really should be CPR certified and The American Red Cross the YMCA those are originations where you can go and the information and the training you need for that. With poisoning, Poison Control Center is one of the easiest avenues to go ahead and get that situation alleviated see if you can find what the person has ingested. Go ahead and ask them if they are still conscious and go ahead and get on the phone with those guys as soon as possible so that you can induce what ever type of treatment you need to have done before emergency medical teams arrive. You know these are the situations you have got to deal with immediately. These hurried cases are things where peoples lives are on the line and if don't immediately deal with them you could end up loosing someone and someone that people care about."
eHow Article: Assessing an Emergency Situation in the Wilderness
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