Patient Positioning

Reposition a patient only when necessary

Reposition a breathing, unresponsive, nontrauma patient in the recovery position
Dont move or reposition a trauma patient unless
necessary to treat life-threatening condition
Allow responsive patient to assume comfortable
position
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Recovery Position

Helps keep airway open

Allows fluid to drain from mouth
Prevents aspiration
If possible, put victim onto left side
Continue to monitor breathing
5-3

Recovery Position for

Unresponsive Breathing Infant
Hold infant facedown
over your arm with
head slightly lower
than body
Support the head and
neck with your hand,
and keep nose and
mouth clear

5-4

1. Extend victims arm farther

from you above victims head

3. Bend victims nearer leg at

knee

2. Position victims other arm

across chest

4. Put forearm nearer victims head

under victims nearer shoulder with
hand under hollow of neck

5. Roll victim away from you by

pushing on victims flexed knee
and lifting with forearm while hand
stabilizes head and neck

6. Continue to support head and

neck. Position victims hand palm
down.

7. Check airway and open mouth to

allow drainage.

Emergency Moves
Use only if:
Patient faces an
immediate danger
You cannot give
lifesaving care
because of location
or position
5-7

With All Emergency Carries

Use good body
mechanics/lifting
techniques
Dont try to lift/carry
person before
checking for
injuries

5-8

Moving Victims If Alone

Unresponsive victim
who cannot safely be
dragged
Pack-strap carry

Moving Victims If Alone

Lighter victim or child
Cradle carry (responsive or
unresponsive victims)
Piggyback carry (responsive
victim)
Support the patients weight with your
arms under the patients thighs
If able, have the patient clasp hands
and lean forward; if not able, grasp
the patients hands with yours to keep
patient from falling back
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Moving Victims If Alone

Responsive victim
who can walk with
help
One-person
walking assist

5-11

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Firefighters Carry

Support the patients weight on your shoulders

while holding the patients thigh and arm
5-12

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Moving Victims With Help

Responsive victim:
Two-person walking assist
Two-handed seat carry

5-13

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Two-Rescuer Assist
Both rescuers
position the patients
arms over their
shoulders
Each rescuer grasps
the patients wrist,
with the other arm
around the patients
waist
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Modes of carrying
(Two First Aiders)

Hand Seat
Four Handed Seat

Two Arm Seat

(When The Casualty15

is Co-operating)

Modes of carrying
When space does not permit
two hand seat

Improvised (chair)

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Two-Rescuer Extremity Carry

To carry a patient
down steps, the
forward rescuer
grasps patients legs
under the knees while
the rear rescuer
reaches under
patients armpits from
behind to grasp the
patients forearms
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Artery

Types of Bleeding
Spurting
Steady flow
Veins

Capillary

Oozing

Internal Injuries

Image of the five basic steps.

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Control of Bleeding
Direct Pressure

Elevation

Pressure bandage
Cold Applications

Pressure Points
Where the artery
passes over a bone
close to the skin

Temporal
Facial
Carotid
Sub-clavian
Brachial
Radial
Ulnar

Femoral
Popliteal
Pedal

e. how to treat a big bleed

Do you know how to treat a deep wound to the arm? Put the pictures
in the right order

The right order is:

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