[sotd] Top 10 First Aid Mistakes [January 12, 2010]
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:05:33 -0400
Site of the Day for Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Top 10 First Aid Mistakes
Today's site, from Newsweek magazine's online content, offers essential
information
on common misconceptions about how to handle some of the more routine mishaps
which
require medical intervention. Gentle Subscribers, who have not yet got round to
taking that first aid course on their agendas, and are feeling somewhat less
than
au fait about what to do before going to a hospital emergency room, may find
this
fact sheet particularly interesting.
"From cut fingers to electrical burns -- what you should and shouldn't do in a
home
health emergency. ... Thank heavens for emergency rooms. But sometimes the first
aid measures taken on the scene before a patient arrives at the hospital can
make
all the difference, especially if the ER is crowded." - from the website
The article dispels a number of routinely mistaken notions about how to deal
with a
medical emergency before heading to the ER -- such as sprains, bleeding and
severed
fingers. Additional injuries covered by the fact sheet include knocked out
teeth,
poisoning, seizures and being impaled, although countless television medical
dramas
have undoubtedly seared the public consciousness with the knowledge of never
removing the rebar, knife or pikestaff from a wound. Accompanying the "don't do
this" admonitions are the recommendations of the correct way to treat these
injuries before heading to the ER.
Zip over to the site for a succinct rundown of what not to do in a number of
ordinary injuries at:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/132001?tid=relatedcl
A.M. Holm
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