Part 17: first aid: 2010 American Heart Association and American Red Cross Guidelines for First Aid.

Part 15: First Aid: 2015 American Heart Association and American Red Cross Guidelines Update for First Aid.

Part 13: First aid: 2010 American Heart Association and American Red Cross International Consensus on First Aid Science With Treatment Recommendations.

Note From the Writing Group: Throughout this article, the reader will notice combinations of superscripted letters and numbers (eg, “Dilution with Milk or Water”). These callouts are hyperlinked to evidence-based worksheets, which were used in the development of this article. An appendix of worksheets, applicable to this article, is located at the end of the text. The worksheets, co-copyrighted...

Trendelenburg position: "put to bed" or angled toward use in your unit?

In the mid-19th century, Friedrich Trendelenburg— pioneering German surgeon (1844-1924)— popularized the technique known in the Middle Ages as the “head-down position.” In his surgical text of 1873, Trendelenburg recognized that raising a patient’s hips caused the bulk of abdominal viscera to slide toward the diaphragm, providing a less cluttered operative field for lower abdominal and pelvic p...

ارزیابی آموزش کمک‌های اولیه به داوطلبان کانون‌های دانش آموزی جمعیت هلال احمر جمهوری اسلامی ایران

Background & Objective: First aid education constitutes a major priority area for the Iranian Red Crescent. The present study assessed the student volunteers' knowledge of first aid procedures and their attitudes concerning strategies for community education. Methods: In this survey 5626 volunteers were selected based on a complex sampling design, in 5 different provinces of Iran. Results...

The development and maturation of humanitarian psychology.

Humanitarian psychological support as an organized field is relatively young. Pioneers in the field were involved primarily in providing psychological support to refugees and internally displaced persons in conflict and nonconflict situations. This article describes basic principles for the design of psychological support programs and interventions. The International Federation of Red Cross and...