Questions about the First Aid: First Minutes poster

What’s on the First Aid: First Minutes poster?

6 numbered steps, with a full worked run-through. A memory aid for people who have done a first-aid course. It is not a substitute for one — take the training. Danger — Is the scene safe for you? A second casualty helps nobody.; Response — Speak loudly, squeeze the shoulders. No response means treat as unconscious.; Shout for help — Call emergency services, or send a specific person to. Ask for an AED.; Airway — Tilt the head back, lift the chin. This alone opens the airway in most cases.; Breathing — Look, listen and feel for up to 10 seconds. Gasping is not normal breathing.; Circulation — Not breathing normally: begin chest compressions and follow your training.. Educational reference only. Get trained, and follow your local protocol over any poster.

Who is the First Aid: First Minutes poster for?

First Aid: First Minutes belongs to the Body & health section rather than to a school year, because health is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning first aid can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the First Aid: First Minutes poster?

Read this now, not during an emergency. The point of a wall chart is that you already know it. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so First Aid: First Minutes belongs on the wall where that health work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with First Aid: First Minutes?

Anaphylaxis, Bleeding & Burns and Burn Depth sit alongside First Aid: First Minutes in the Body & health section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.AnaphylaxisBleeding & BurnsBurn Depth

Is the First Aid: First Minutes poster free to download and print?

Yes. First Aid: First Minutes downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Body & health section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the First Aid: First Minutes poster print at?

First Aid: First Minutes is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of First Aid: First Minutes loses nothing.Printing guide