CRISIS QUICK REFERENCE
Ensure that you and other people around you are safe. Call the emergency services on 999 or 112 and explain the situation. Provide emergency First Aid if safe to do so. For specific incidents, please follow the advice below.
UNCONSCIOUS - BREATHING
Call 999 or 112
Remember DRABC
Check for danger
Try and get a response - open their airway and check their breathing
If unconscious and breathing normally, place patient in Recovery Position
UNCONSCIOUS - NOT BREATHING
Call 999 or 112
Remember DRABC
Check for danger
Try and get a response - open their airway and check their breathing
If unconscious and not breathing normally, start CPR
Place your hands in the middle of the casualty's chest
Press down hard and fast 30 times
Place your mouth over the casualty's mouth and blow into their mouth gently twice, keep repeating this 30:2 until emergency services arrive
If this is a child (up to the age of 18), give them five rescue breaths before starting compressions
CHOKING
Stand to the side of the casualty
Support them with your arm across their chest, lean them forward
With the heel of your hand, give them up to five sharp blows between their shoulder blades
Check between each blow in case the object has come out
After five blows, if this has not worked, call 999 or 112
Now stand behind the casualty, and wrap your arms around their waist
Find the soft area between their belly button and the bottom of the rib cage
Clinch one fist and place your other fist on top of the hand
Pull in and up sharply up to five times
If this does not remove the obstacle repeat the back blow and the abdominal thrusts until something changes
DROWNING
Call 999 or 112
Remember DRABC
Check for danger
Try and get a response - open their airway and check their breathing
If unconscious and not breathing normally, start CPR
Give the casualty five rescue breaths, then place your hands in the middle of the casualty's chest, press down hard and fast 30 times
Place your mouth over the casualty's mouth and blow into their mouth gently twice
Keep repeating this 30:2 until emergency services arrive
BLEEDING
Sit the person down (on the floor is the best) with gloved hands if possible
Apply direct pressure over the wound
Secure a dressing over the wound (this need to be applied tightly)
If blood comes through the dressing, apply a second over the top tighter (up to 2 dressings)
If the casualty is showing signs of shock, lay them on their back and rest their legs
Call 999 or 112