Has it ever happened to you that somebody you know or anybody around you needed emergency medical help and you wished there was something you could do?
A person in need of CPR, choked throat or dislocated shoulder is in front of you and you couldn't do anything?
Here comes the importance of First-Aid training. It is a skill which not only can add wonders to your life survival skills; but can also do wonders for the people around you.
What is First-Aid?
First aid is an immediate and a temporary treatment given to a victim of illness or an accident until a certified medical help arrives.
We all must have done a little First-Aid some time, like putting a band aid on the cut or applying ice on a burnt skin, but a First-Aid gives you knowledge on temporarily handling a situation which will require medical attention.
Did you know not even 1 % of the common population know how to give a CPR, or operate a fire extinguisher for that matter?
With a First-Aid Training you can learn how to immediately handle situations like a human or animal bite, burn, choking, cuts, fractures, handling electric shocked patient, fractures, hand injury, nose bleed, stab and punctured wounds and few other situations like these.
You all must have also heard about first-aid box and with training you can easily learn how and when to use each item in that box.
Where can I learn it?
Internet is a great place to start learning but since it does not gives you ability to practice you might end up testing these on your brother or sister, so I would recommend you joining a training center, there are a lot of free ones like red cross society or you can approach your local community hospital for more details.
This is seriously a skill that you would want to consider learning as it might save some life some day.
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