First Aid/How To Read This Book

Don't do this!
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Caution
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Regional Note
	Where there is a regional departure from the protocols in the main text, they're noted in a box like this.

First Aid

Introduction — Issues in Providing Care — Primary Assessment & Basic Life Support — Secondary Assessment — Circulatory Emergencies

Respiratory Emergencies — Soft Tissue Injuries — Bone & Joint Injuries — Environmental Illness & Injury

Medical Conditions & Poisoning — Advanced Topics — Appendices — Meta content

Internationally-recognized standards

This book is international in nature - we've tried to use internationally-recognized standards as much as possible. For more information on how standards are developed and implemented, see Appendix B: Behind the Scenes. Where required, we've added regional notes to highlight regional differences.

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Best Practice
These boxes highlight a technique commonly used because it's the best (or one of the best) ways of doing things, or it is something important to remember.

Summaries make studying easy

Summaries are available for the following modules:

The entire BLS/CPR chapter is summarized (without regional modifications) here

Introduction

Authors — How To Read This Book — What is First Aid? — First Aid Training