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First Aid and Emergency Health Care

First Aid and Emergency Health Care

Learn how to do basic first aid and handle an emergency with help from wikiHow’s First Aid and Emergency Health Care category. Get expert advice on handling a variety of emergencies, including facial swelling, sudden chest pains, broken bones, and more. You can also find general first aid instruction, from assessing level of consciousness to calling an ambulance.

Articles about First Aid and Emergency Health Care

How to Request a Welfare Check for Someone
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Tape a Thumb
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When to Worry about Left Arm Pain (And When Not To)
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What to Do If a Popcorn Kernel Is Stuck in Your Throat
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Make a Saline Solution
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Perform the Heimlich Maneuver on Yourself
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Treat Paronychia
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Faint Safely
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Reduce Swollen Fingers
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Do a Fireman's Carry
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Help Someone Who Has Swallowed Gasoline
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How to Get Fiberglass Splinters Out of Your Skin: Removal & Safety Tips
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Recognize the Symptoms of Appendicitis
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Sterilize a Needle
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Tell if Someone Is Dead
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Treat a Finger Hit by a Hammer
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Carry Someone Who's Bigger Than You
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Deal With the Pain of a Door Being Shut on Your Finger
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Apply a Butterfly Bandage
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Save an Active Drowning Victim
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Carry an Injured Person by Yourself During First Aid
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Can Toothpaste Get Rid of a Bruise? How It Works & Other Treatments
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Help a Victim of a Car Accident
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Perform a Tracheotomy
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Do a Two Person Arm Carry
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Basic First Aid: The Three Cs, Caring for Common Injuries & More
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Handle an Emergency Situation
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Call Emergency Services
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Treat Apple Cider Vinegar Burns
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Check Airway, Breathing and Circulation
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Perform the Heimlich Maneuver
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Reduce Tongue Swelling
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Numb Skin
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Deal With Allergic Reactions
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Use an Inhaler
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Perform the Heimlich Maneuver on a Toddler
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Treat an Acid Attack
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Handle Caffeine Overdose
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Call an Ambulance
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Treat Airbag Burns
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Reduce Facial Swelling
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Perform First Aid Assists and Carries
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Stop an Asthma Attack Without an Inhaler
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Perform the Heimlich Maneuver on a Baby
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Text 911
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Heal an Infected Cut
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Call 911
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Get Pepper Spray Off Your Hands
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Prevent Home Accidents
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What to Do If Someone’s Choking: Symptoms & First Aid Advice
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Make a First Aid Kit for Kids
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Carry an Injured Person Using Two People
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Create a Home First Aid Kit
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How to

Ice an Injured Ankle
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Passing Out vs. Sleeping: What to Do If Someone Is Unresponsive
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Find the Popliteal Pulse
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How to Stop Feeling Like You’re Going to Pass Out: Prevent Yourself from Fainting
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Deal With Fainting
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Recognize the Symptoms of Stomach Ulcers
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Avoid Food Triggered Seizures
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Reduce Appendix Pain
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Make a Simple Stretcher
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How to

Add ICE to Your Cell Phone
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Treat a Bleeding Ulcer
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Conduct a Secondary Survey of an Injured Person
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Detect Appendicitis During Pregnancy
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Administer Narcan
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Backboard a Spinal Injury Victim in the Water
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Quickly Lower Blood Sugar
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Clean Road Rash
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Put Someone in the Recovery Position
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Survive a Gas Attack
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Deal with Fainting at School
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Use Povidone Iodine Solution
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Avoid Drowning
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Treat Road Rash
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Ease Sudden Chest Pain
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Use an Epipen
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Assess Level of Consciousness During First Aid
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Recognize Radiation Sickness
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Recognize and Treat Alcohol Poisoning
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Provide First Aid for a Broken Bone
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Treat Elbow Bursitis
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Preserve a Severed Limb
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Recognize an Allergic Reaction
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Operate an Ambulance Stretcher
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Prevent Altitude Sickness
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Prevent Fainting
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Conduct a Head‐to‐Toe Exam During First Aid
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Diagnose Cauda Equina Syndrome
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Do First Aid on a Choking Baby
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Test the Effectiveness of a Bandage
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Go to the Hospital
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Silently Call Emergency Services on iPhone or Apple Watch
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Help Someone That Has Overdosed
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Check Someone's Breathing Rate (Rate of Respiration)
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How to

Buy an EpiPen
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Spot Early Signs of Cardiac Arrest
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Recognize Spinal Meningitis Symptoms
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Treat Asthma Attacks
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Take a Temperature
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Report an Emergency
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