Home first-aid: first aid supplies, useful equipment, complementary remedies; using dressing and bandages. Principles of first-aid: what to do in the event of an incident; monitoring vital signs. Emergency treatments: unconsciousness; ABC of resuscitation, plan of action; unconscious baby; checking consciousness and breathing, giving a baby rescue breaths, giving a baby CPR; unconscious toddler; checking consciousness and breathing, giving a toddle rescue breaths, giving a toddler CPR; breathing difficulties; choking baby, chocking toddler. Breathing difficulties: asthma; croup; suffocation and strangulation; drowning; chest wound, winding; extreme allergic reaction; shock. Wounds and bleeding: cuts and grazes, bruises; mouth wound, knocked-out tooth, nosebleed; eye wounds, ear wound, blisters; serious bleeding. Treating burns: burns, clothing on fire, chemical burns; electrical burn, sunburn. Head injury: scalp wounds; concussion and compression. Bites and stings: animal bites, insect strings, stings from a sea creature. Foreign objects: splinter, foreign object in ear, eye, nose - swallowed foreign object. Bones, joints and muscles: broken bones, arm or hand injury, leg injury; sprains and strains; spine injury. Extremes of temperature: heat rash, heat exhaustion; heat stroke, hypothermia. Poisoning: treating poisoning; specific types of poisoning. Illness and medical problems: fever; diarrhoea and vomiting; meningitis; seizures; three-month colic, teething pain; nappy rash, ear pain. Safety in and around the home.
