FIRST AID

badge requirements

NOTE: If you pass the St John Ambulance Young Lifesaver Award Scheme, Key Stage 2 (Junior), or an equivalent, and in addition complete clauses 15-20, you can gain this Badge

1. Demonstrate how to assess an emergency situation and make for safe for everybody before trying to help.

2. Demonstrate how to assess a casualty, check for response, open an airway, check for breathing and circulation and place into the recovery position.

3. On a mannequin, demonstrate mouth-to-mouth ventilation and cardio-pulmonary resuscitation and know when to use these techniques.

4. Demonstrate how to make an emergency phone call.

5. Recognize the symptoms of choking and demonstrate how to treate a chocking person.

6. Recognize the problems of asthma and demonstrate how to help someone who is having an asthma attack.

7. Demonstrate the treatment of a minor cut and a graze.

8. Demonstrate the treatment for a casualty with severe external bleeding.

9. Explain the importance of hygiene when dealing with blood and body fluids.

10. Recognize and demonstrate the treatment of shock.

11. Recognize the features of a fracture and demonstrate how to treat fractures to prevent the injury getting worse.

12. Demonstrate how to treat burns and recognize when someone who has been burned should go to hospital.

13. Demonstrate the treatment for someone who has been poisoned.

14. Recognize the features of a heart attack and demonstrate how to treat a casualty who is having a heart attack.

15. Have a brief understanding of how to treat a diabetic emergency.

16. Have a brief understanding of epilepsy and the difference between minor and major seizures. Know how to treat a casualty having a seizure.

17. Recognize the features of the effects of the extremes of temperature and know how to treat hypothermia, heat stroke and heat exhaustion.

18. Know how to treat insect bites and stings.

19. Know how to treat objects in the eye and ear.

20. Assemble a simple first aid kit and know how to use the contents.