A survey of 500 members of the public was carried out in which they were asked how they would deal with a nose bleed. Only 50 out of 443 responses were judged as being correct, confirming a clinical impression, long held by those dealing with epistaxis, that there is a high level of ignorance as to the correct first aid treatment. The survey also suggested that the lack of knowledge was not con...

1.0 Introduction Recent years have seen an increase in the number of devices with differing communication, compute and display capabilities. Increasingly, services need to interact with a wide spectrum of devices with varying networking capabilities. In most cases, services and the functions that they perform are independent of the transports deployed for communications. Furthermore, given the ...

We investigated the link between ambulance transports and meteorological parameters of summer by using daily data in Osaka area, Japan. Daily observations for ambulance transports (from July 1 to September 30, 2009) were obtained from Fire Department Service in Osaka. Data of meteorological parameters in Osaka area, Japan (from July 1 to September 30, 2009) were also obtained from Japan Meteoro...

In England and Wales, 53% of live births were born within marriage in 2013, compared to 59% in 2003 and 93% in 1963 [1] . The average age at marriage has increased and more children are born to women older than 30 years. In the UK, there were 2.0 million lone parents with dependent children in 2015. This figure has grown steadily from 1.9 million in 2005. Lone parents with dependent children re...

Embarkation of Suspected Pirates (SPs) It is important to ensure that all personnel involved in boarding operations complete the hepatitis B vaccination program as there is a risk that they will be exposure to bodily fluids. The Royal Marine boarding team should receive extra first aid training onboard the ship to allow them to deal with the initial management of any casualties encountered. Ide...

OBJECTIVE Children can be the only persons present in an emergency situation. Aim of the study was to evaluate the effects of a first aid course for 4-5-year-old kindergarten children given by a first aid instructor and kindergarten teachers. METHODS A mixed methods approach using both quantitative and qualitative methods was used to investigate the effects of teaching first aid in the kinder...

Pre anc* to which not far short of 500 children of J wSCh?01 or school age were referred last year. jn as dissatisfied with the task of acting merely Ca a first aid capacity relegated to picking up has es, anc* t^s' I trust healthy, dissatisfaction SlJ encouraged me to put forward here some hafesti?ns not only as to where things appear to as t6 ?one wrong but also, with less certainty, j0 how t...

BACKGROUND There is limited evidence indicating that laypersons trained in first aid provide better help, but do not help more often than untrained laypersons. This study investigated the effect of conventional first aid training versus conventional training plus supplementary training aimed at decreasing barriers to helping. METHODS The authors conducted a randomised controlled trial. After ...

This paper is a contribution to the literature on aid and growth. Despite an extensive existing empirical literature in this area, studies have not paid much attention to the importance of transmission mechanisms in determining the influence of aid inflows on growth rates. In other words, existing studies have failed to specify the mechanisms via which aid should affect growth. We identify inve...