Dr Leigh Martens
General Practitioner
First Aid Explained
Use this section as a guide to assist you during a medical crisis or accident. In case of a medical emergency, please call for urgent assistance (see EMERGENCY NUMBERS above) before you read the relevant section
- Animal Bites
- Apply a Tourniquet
- Backboard a Spinal Injury Victim in the Water
- Basic First Aid
- Bee Stings
- Black eye
- Bleeding
- Blisters
- Bruise
- Bullet Wound
- Burns
- Cardiac Arrest
- Carry an Injured Person by Yourself During First Aid
- Carry an Injured Person Using Two People
- Carry Someone Who's Bigger Than You
- Check for a Fracture when Performing First Aid
- Choking Baby First Aid
- Clean a Minor Wound
- Concussion Treatment
- Conduct a Secondary Survey of the Chest and Abdomen During First Aid
- CPR on a Baby
- CPR on a Child
- CPR on an Adult
- Deliver a Baby
- Determine if a Cut Needs Stitches
- Drowning
- Electrical shock
- Eye Injuries
- Fish Hook lodged in Finger
- Head Injury Evaluation
- Head Injury Symptoms
- Heimlich Maneuver
- Heimlich Maneuver on a Toddler
- Heimlich Maneuver on an Unconscious Adult
- Heimlich Maneuver on Yourself
- Human Bites
- Nose Bleed
- Overdose
- Poisoning
- Puncture Wound
- Seizure First Aid
- Snake Bites
- Spinal Injury
- Splinter removal
- Stab Wound
- Stroke Symptoms
- Unconscious Choking Adult or Child