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FIRST AID AND EMERGENCY PROCEDURES

NCJ Number
68815
Editor(s)
M TOMCZYK, B WORGESS
Date Published
Unknown
Length
38 pages
Annotation
THIS REFERENCE FOR TRAINED CUSTODY STAFF CONTAINS BRIEF EXPLANATIONS OF FIRST AID AND EMERGENCY PROCEDURES FOR ALL 31 COMMON EMERGENCIES, RANGING FROM ALLERGIC REACTIONS, BITES, AND BLISTERS TO VOMITING.
Abstract
PREVIOUS TRAINING IN EMERGENCY PROCEDURES IS ASSUMED. SITUATIONS COVERED ARE ALLERGIC REACTIONS, ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION, BITES, BLISTERS, BRUISES, BURNS, CHOKING, CONVULSIONS, CUTS AND SCRATCHES, AND DIABETES. ALSO INCLUDED ARE EMERGENCIES INVOLVING EARS, ELECTRIC SHOCK, SERIOUS ACCIDENTS OR ILLNESS, EYES, FAINTING, FROSTBITE, AND HEAD INJURIES, AND THOSE INVOLVING HEADACHE, HEART-LUNG RESUSCITATION, HEAT EXHAUSTION, HEAT STROKE, MOUTH, NOSE, POISONING, PUNCTURE WOUNDS, SEVERE BLEEDING, SHOCK, SPLINTERS, STINGS, SUSPECTED FRACTURES OR DISLOCATIONS, AND VOMITING AND ABDOMINAL PAIN. AN INDEX IS INCLUDED.