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Content wanted! Content for first aid

Hi! I'm an EMT and a CPR/First Aid Instructor, and I'm going to tell you that this will be difficult for several reasons. First, there would need to be an expressed disclaimer that it's not providing medical advice, because only doctors can do that, and no doc in their right mind will do that online. Second, there are a lot of opinions out there about what to do in an emergency, and even the EMT curiculuum is being updated constantly. Things that were gospel three years ago are hated now, because we're moving towards evidence-based medicine. That is, if it works, where are the studies saying that it works? It's no longer acceptable to simply do what we've always done, as it were. So it would be difficult to keep it updated. Third, to make it truly reliable, you would need a reliable source behind it, like the American Heart Association or the Red Cross, who have different views about approaching first aid (and those also vary from EMT and Paramedic curiculums). The fourth problem is that Fire Protection and Fire Safety is a wholly separate area of education. As far as who to call, if you're in the United States, the emergency number all over the nation is 9-1-1. In Britain, it's 9-9-9. Feel free to email me at amwoods8644@gmail.com with questions (if you wouldn't mind, put "Memrise" as the subject so that I know what it's about.)

Interesting :) By the way, you dial 1-1-2 in Germany.

1.There is a lot of discussion about many things but official guidelines are published every few years (I think every five years but not sure).

2.The real trouble is, that First Aid cannot be memrised. It is not a list of data you just learn by heart, it is a process which depends a lot on the situation and its changes and which is usually not exactly the same as in the book because now it is not theory, it is YOU standing there. So, get a good quality up to date first aid textbook which explains things and, most importantly, tells you what mistakes to avoid (really, I can see the results of a flashcard: Q:what you should never do A:...) and read it a few times. Or even better: if you are interested in the first aid (and that is really good because anything can happen and you might be needed), go to a course. At a good course, the instructors will explain to you the theory, give you useful tips and the good courses include as well practice. (It looks even scarry, there are events with people, with appropriate make-up, who play the injured etc.)