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First Aid
First aid is the treatment of minor injuries or conditions or immediate care or treatment for a medical emergency that is administered while awaiting professional help. Page 923 offers information on first aid.
Online Videos
Common Childhood Injuries
A program that teaches how to care for minor emergencies and how to prevent serious ones from getting worse before medical help arrives.
How to Give Baby CPR
If a baby is unresponsive and not breathing, giving a baby CPR can help keep them alive until an ambulance arrives. In this video a St John Ambulance trainer shows you how to give CPR to a baby.
Infant CPR
This film instructs parents or caregivers on how to perform choking and CPR procedures on a baby if they have a breathing or cardiac emergency.
Safetyhub Online Videos
A selection of videos detailing common First Aid situations.
Toddler Safety
This film looks at ways to keep toddlers safe, and what to do in an emergency.
Websites
Allergy and Anaphylaxis Australia
Free information for helping individuals and carers alike in managing allergy and the risk of anaphylaxis.
CPR for Children
Step-by-step instructions using pictures on how to perform CPR on children.
CPR Information and Charts
A cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) resource library includes illustrated step-by-step articles on how to perform CPR to all ages, and poster guides available for download and high-quality print.
St John WA First Aid Resources
Here's a range of information sheets for you to download for free, and use to display around the workplace as a reminder of how to treat a range of illnesses and injuries.
Books and DVD's in the Library
A Life. a Finger. a Pea up a Nose: CPR KIDS Essential First Aid Guide for Babies and Children
Based on the enormously popular CPR Kids First Aid program, which has empowered thousands of families around Australia. From resuscitation, broken bones, choking and drowning to allergies, breathing problems and everything in between, this essential guide equips parents with skills to help your precious little ones safely and effectively in the event of a medical emergency. Easy-to-follow step-by-step advice, nurse- and parent-tested methods and clear illustrations will show you how to: assess a situation and stay calm, treat an injury in a child-friendly way, recognise warning signs that show your child has a serious illness, know when to get help, and make your home child-safe.
Publication Date: 2018
Children's Wellbeing in the Media Age
Introduction -- Part 1 -- Applying the ecological model of human development to the study of media's effects on children -- A citizen-child lens on the media, health and wellbeing -- An action research model of media production -- Part 2 -- (Applied) ethics -- Bioethics -- Paediatrics -- Social work -- Librarianship and information collection -- (Media) law -- Public health nutrition -- Part 3 -- Developmental psychology -- The study of aggressive behaviour --The study of body image -- Sleep psychology -- Conclusion.
"Children, from infancy through adolescence, now spend more time consuming media content than they do in school, with parents or engaging in any activity other than sleep. Parents, educators, and policy-makers are concerned, confused and overwhelmed, since the media we use and how we use them influence virtually every aspect of our lives." -- back cover
Publication Date: 2015
First Aid for Babies and Children
Introduction -- How to use this book -- Action in an emergency -- Unconsciousness -- Shock -- Disorders of unconsciousness -- Breathing difficulties -- Wounds and bleeding -- Burns and scalds -- Poisoning -- Head and face injuries -- Back and neck injuries -- Bone, joint and muscle injuries -- Foreign objects -- Bites and stings --- Effects of heat and cold -- Fever and sickness -- Aches and pains --- Bandages and dressings --- Child safety -- Index.
An indispensable parent's guide to dealing quickly and confidently with any childhood emergency , from cuts and grazes to choking and poisoning .
Publication Date: 2011
Pediatric First Aid for Caregivers and Teachers (2nd edition)
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is pleased to bring you the Second Edition of its national pediatric first aid course, Pediatric First Aid for Caregivers and Teachers (PedFACTs). The PedFACTs course is designed to give caregivers and teachers the education and confidence that they need to care effectively for sick or injured children. This participant manual is the core of the PedFACTs course with features that reinforce and expand on the essential information.
Publication Date: c2014