Emergency First Aid Life saving ABC procedures:
As a first aider course attendant, attending our HSE Health and Safety Executive approved Emergency first aid training course, our emergency first aid teachers, HSE trained and qualified, will teach you the emergency first aid priorities when dealing with a casualty, which are always the same and easy to remember. For this emergency first aid procedure, we have a simple mnemonic to help you remember the sequence of emergency first aid procedures to follow. This is called the ABC of emergency first aid.
- Airway
- Breathing
- Circulation
A in the emergency first aid alphabet stands for Airways. The primary emergency first aid survey of an accident victim in need of emergency first aid will help you decide which emergency first aid action should be your first concern. When dealing with an unconscious casualty in need of emergency first aid, you should open and sustain their airway as your first priority. The reason for this is that If the airways are obstructed, the person in need of emergency first aid will not be able to breathe and this will lead to be life threatening or even result in death if left without emergency first aid treatment.
B in the emergency first aid alphabet stands for Breathing. If the casualty in need of emergency first aid treatment is breathing, the simple emergency first aid procedure of placing the casualty in to the emergency first aid recovery position should ensure that the airway channel will remain open. If the casualty in need of emergency first aid treatment has stopped breathing you can assist them with your emergency first aid skills by performing a combination of emergency first aid chest compressions and rescue breaths. You can keep this emergency first aid breathing technique up until the emergency first aid services arrive. During your HSE Health and Safety Executive Emergency first aid training course, your qualified first aid teacher will teach you this very important life saving emergency first aid technique.
C in the emergency first aid alphabet stands for Circulation. Circulation is when the heart is pumping blood through the body at a sufficient rate to allow for the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide. The emergency first aid techniques that we will teach you on our HSE health and safety executive emergency first aid training course, is to look out for signs including pulse, coughing, breathing and any movement. The person in need of emergency first aid can also be checked for colour, splotchy areas may suggest that circulation is being compromised.
It is important to remember that in any life threatening emergency first aid needing situation, the emergency first aid services should be called as soon as breathing or absence of breathing has been identified.