It is scary thinking that your child may get burned, choke on a toy, or have a seizure. Being prepared and knowing what to do in any of these common emergencies can help to make sure that your child gets quick care.
First Aid for Common Emergencies
- Burns
- Choking - Heimlich Maneuver
- CPR
- Head Trauma
- Insect Bites and Stings
- Near Drowning
- Seizures
- Trouble Breathing
Common First Aid Procedures
- Creating a sling
- Hand splint
- Poisonous snakes
- Sewing a wound closed
- Snakebite (poison) treatment
More First Aid Tips
- Amputation - Traumatic
- Bleeding
- Broken nose
- Broken teeth
- Cold Exposure - Extremities
- Crushed Digits
- Cut - Wound
- Dental Injuries
- Epistaxis - Nosebleeds
- Eye emergencies
- Fishhook removal
- Foreign body in the nose
- Foreign body lodged in the ear canal
- Heatstroke
- Inhalation of a foreign object
- Laceration
- Lost teeth
- Nursemaid's elbow
- Poisoning first aid
- Scrotal trauma
- Smashed fingers
- Snake bite
- Spider bite
- Sprains
- Stings - marine animals
- Straddle injury
- Strains - first aid
- Swallowed foreign object
- Unconsciousness - first aid