Despite the fact that really anyone would agree that first aid is a valuable skill, the reality is that less than half of the population has any experience with it. While a list of facts from the internet is hardly a replacement, it can still be a good idea to at least cover some simple ideas that could actually help someone in need.
We’ve gathered some examples of tips, tricks and just facts that could be life-saving in the right circumstances. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorite examples and be sure to share your own stories and ideas in the comment section below.
#1
I can tell you about the advice which saved my life.
It happened during my business trip to Mauritius. That was the first time that I was going to see the Indian Ocean so I was very excited about the prospect. When we arrived, the very first thing I wanted to do was to put my swimming suit on and take a swim from the hotel beach. I did so. I swam a couple of hundred meters and decided to return. I started moving towards the hotel beach. But it did not work out. I tried different methods but each time waves drove me more and more away from the beach. “That might be a silly ending”, I thought. And that was the point when I recalled what my swimming instructor told me once about swimming in open waters. He said, “Never try to fight waters, by doing so you will get tired very quickly and spend your energy with zero result. Your task is to relax, to feel dynamics of the waves and move in line with them. Imagine you’re a part of it”. I guess it was only the 7th try when I managed to catch a wave and finally swam back to hotel.
His casual advice saved my life. I can’t know if it will save yours but you can never know.
Just remember: Swim parallel to the shore to escape a rip tide.
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#2
In case, you find yourself trapped in snow and you are dehydrating at much faster rate with no water in your bottle…..
Do Not Ever Consume Snow.
Albeit, it makes sense for one to think that snow contains water and it might save you from dying, but you’re wrong. Your body is already losing energy. A body can digest snow only after its system first converts it in liquid. With limited energy in body, you don’t want burn your calories to convert liquid from snow.
What to do?
Fill your bottle with snow and place it inside your jacket. Do not make contact with skin by thinking it’ll melt snow faster. Fundamental law of thermodynamics will take place; heat will flow from hot to cold body. Thus, you’ll start draining your energy. Maintain a layer or two between pocket and skin.
Also, you should try to think ahead of time by filling bottle with snow when its about half or less. Kind of preemptive strike.
Hope someone will rescue soon. Staying calm and positive are equally crucial.
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#3
Splinters
How do I remove a splinter?
splinter is a fragment of a larger object, or a foreign body that penetrates or is purposely injected into a body. It may be a glass piece or a wooden piece.
If the splinter is sticking out of the skin:
1. Wash the skin around the splinter with soap and water.
3. Clean a pair of tweezers with a cotton swab dipped in alcohol.
4. Grab the end of the splinter with the tweezers.
5. Pull it out at the same angle as the splinter went in.
6. Clean the skin again with soap and water.
If the splinter is under the skin:
1. Wash the skin around the splinter with soap and water.
2. Clean a needle and tweezers with alcohol.
3. Gently scrape away the skin above the splinter with the needle until you can see the top of the splinter.
4. Grab the end of the splinter with the tweezers and pull it out at the same angle it went in.
5. Clean the skin again with soap and water.
Animal Bites and Insect Stings
How do I treat animal bites and cuts
1. Hold a towel or gauze to the area to stop the bleeding.
2. Clean the wound with soap and water.
3. Cover it with a clean bandage or gauze pad.
When should I see a doctor for an animal bite?
1. For any animal bite, you may need an antibiotic to prevent infection.
2. If the bite was caused by an animal you don’t know, or by any wild animal like a raccoon, skunk, or bat. You may need a tetanus or rabies vaccine.
3. The bite is large, or it doesn’t stop bleeding after you’ve held pressure on it for 15 minutes. It may need to be closed with stitches.
4. If bite may have damaged a bone, tendons, or nerves, because you can’t bend or straighten the body part or you’ve lost feeling in it.
5. The wound is red, swollen, or oozing fluid.
How do I treat bee, wasp, and other insect stings?
1. If the insect has left behind a sting, remove it from the skin so less of the venom gets into your body. Don’t squeeze the stinger. You might release more of the venom into your skin.
2. Once the stinger is out or if there is no stinger, wash the area around the sting with soap and water.
3. Hold an ice pack or cool washcloth to the sting to stop it from swelling.
4. Spread calamine lotion or baking soda mixed with water to relieve pain.
5. To prevent itching, use a spray or cream containing hydrocortisone or antihistamine.
How do I treat a mosquito bite?
1. Apply firm pressure to the bite for 10 seconds to help stop the itch.
2. Use a hydrocortisone cream 4 times a day to relieve itching.
3. Take an antihistamine if the bite is very itchy.
How to know if the insect bite has caused allergy to the body?
1. Dizziness
2. Hives — red, itchy bumps on the skin
3. Stomach cramps, vomiting, or diarrhea
4. Swelling of the tongue
5. Trouble breathing, wheezing
Go to the doctor promptly to ward off chances of anaphylactic shoc.
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#4
The moment my father yelled “Duck!” saved my life.
I was 16. It was a quiet Saturday morning. My father was teaching me to drive on the interstate for the first time. We took the brand new Dodge Colt E that he had bought me onto I-40 Eastbound in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee. Suddenly, he yelled “Duck!” and I thankfully did.
At that moment, a tractor trailer that had been on the opposite side of the interstate and crossed the median slammed into our car. The truck driver had fallen asleep. The impact took off the roof of the car, chopped off my headrest, and removed the back half of the car. Without ducking, I would have been decapitated.
It was a good two months before I had the nerve to drive a car again. Thank you, Dad, for saving my life. He’s in heaven now.
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#5
“You’re always sick when I call. You should see a doctor”. This was from my wife’s grandmother. Nonsense was what I thought; as a guy, my mental image of myself is that I’m always healthy and don’t need to see a doctor.
Turns out, there’s an adult-onset immune thing, pretty rare, so that slowly your immune system stop making immune globulins and therefore I was always getting colds. And, in retrospect, always had a fever, and always had congested lungs, and always had inflamed sinuses. And, as it turned out, some of those colds were actually pneumonia.
Luckily, there’s a treatment, and now I can breathe through my nose again, and wake up in the morning and not spit up phlegm. And I’m likely to live beyond 42 (the actual average age of death for this condition).
(If you think you’re always sick, and you might have this, rest assured, you almost certainly don’t. It’s rare enough that there’s only one clinic in Seattle that handles it, and they take in patients from several of the surrounding states).
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#6
I once heard that people who fall in the water sometimes drown while wearing a life jacket. They get disoriented and try to swim to the surface, but instead swim downward. (I don’t know if this is actually true, but it’s true that I heard that.)
Then it happened to me.
I was riding a waverunner and went over a wave and unexpectedly nosed the waverunner into the face of the next wave. I was ripped from the seat, and my first thought while underwater was, relax, let the lifejacket bring you to the surface.
Had I not heard that tidbit of information, I could have had a really bad day. As it was, the incident left me stiff and sore, with a concussion from hitting the water at high speed.
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#7
There are many skills which can help in any kind of emergency. First and foremost call the paramedics and inform them your complete location and address. CPR is the crucial think one should know. Other then this, any kind of emergencies like breathing problem, and choking.
Injuries are worsen in workplaces while waiting for a doctor or paramedic to arrive. With basic first aid training like wound the bandage on the wound or stop bleeding from a cut which sometimes cause a person to faint.
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#8
1. Stop bleeding by applying direct pressure on the wound. Open wounds and cuts can result in serious blood loss and can be life threatening.
2. Protect broken bones until the professionals arrive. Broken bokes can be very dangerous, especially in your back or close to an artery.
3. Good hydration will prevent heat stroke. Make sure you have enough fluid with you on your adventure so that you can regularly hydrate.
4. Learn and practice the Heimlich Maneuver – you can prevent someone from choking to death on a piece of food.
First aid is a necessary skill which I believe everyone should know. More and more people are venturing outdoors and partaking in extreme sports. It is especially important for them to have done first aid training. Extreme sports include abseiling, trail running, river rafting, mountain biking, sky diving, bungy jumping, etc. Any sport that gets the adrenaline rushing through your veins at a fast rate is considered an extreme sport. Knowing how to care for a wound until the emergency services arrive can be the difference between life and, in extreme cases, death.
You will be in good stead when you empower yourself with an accredited first aid course.
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#9
If you choke on food while there’s no one else around to help, you can dislodge it by making yourself fall on a hard edge, like the edge of a table or the upper edge of a chair back. Make sure it hits you right below the ribs. This imitates the effect of the Heimlich maneuver.
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#10
Not mine, but possibly a few men and women’s in the lab across the hall.
I heard the description of phosgene during military training while in college. I have never been exposed to it and had no idea how accurate the description was, or whether it was even feasible to describe a smell verbally.
One of my colleagues was a smoker. A woman in the lab next door regularly popped in, dragging him out into the stairwell to serve as a smoking companion. One day, she opened our door, popped her head in and began her routine smoking call, addressing my lab mate. She abruptly paused in the middle of a word, fainted and fell on the floor while grasping at the door handle. The door swung fully open and let in a whiff of rotten hay.
It took me a few seconds to connect the goings-on and the description of phosgene I heard in college. I commanded everyone nearby to open the windows and stick their heads out, called the institute’s fire crew, opened the door to the lab across the hall and noticed thin white smoke emanating from the sink area.
After the building was evacuated and all rooms aired, it turned out that the woman who fainted mid-sentence had been running a protein purification job, dumping her waste fractions and spent reagents into the sink. Simultaneously, someone in the lab on the upper floor was busy cleaning glassware with a corrosive concoction of potassium dichromate and acids, dumping it into the same drain. It reacted with the products of the protein job, producing phosgene, among other things. The cast iron drain pipe had long been corroded through. It let the gaseous products into the room. It didn’t help that the smokers in both labs couldn’t smell anything until it was almost too late.
The hazmat guy on the fire team had a phosgene indicator badge. He confirmed that phosgene was the main trouble-maker, and it was also consistent with the condition of those affected. Everyone survived, and I learnt that the rotten hay analogy was spot-on.
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#11
When I was a child and young adult I had keen interest in water sports.
Almost drowned three times.
My parents and various adults taught me to be wary of currents in the sea and weirs in the river.
Doing my SCUBA diving training, rip currents and currents in general were mentioned.
Fast forward ten years or so!
We went for a late afternoon dive, just off Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Vicious current took me to the open sea, towards Italy.
Sea was about 3 to 4 Beaufort which means there were lots of crests.
People in the boat were looking for me, I was whistling in my whistle, but no luck!
At that moment it was a choice, should I drop my bottles and weights or not (I never used buoyancy compensator! Yes, yes, I know…).
Then my training pitched in.
Never drop anything if absolutely not necessary! Check!
Never swim directly in the current! Check!
So, what did I do?
I dived down to about 30 m, wouldn’t go deeper because I was worried to eventually have to do decompression in open water and started to swim underwater at about 45 degrees to the current.
After about 10–15 minutes saw the bottom and started my way up following the slope.
My orientation and course was impeded from the beginning because one of my otherwise excellent Mares Concorde fins was longitudinally split and the outer half was missing (Yes, yes, I know…).
I managed but it was a tight call!
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#12
Sprains and Strains
Sprains and strains are very common injuries of muscles, ligaments and tendons
How do I treat sprains and strains?
For a mild sprain or strain:
1. Rest the limb to give it a chance to heal.
2. Hold ice on the area for 20 minutes at a time, four to eight times a day, to bring down swelling. Don’t use heat — it could make the area swell even more.
3. Wrap an elastic bandage or splint around the sprain or strain.
4. Put a pillow under the injured body to keep it raised
5. Take over-the-counter medicines such as ibuprofen to relieve the pain.
For a more severe sprain or strain, where there’s a lot of pain, swelling, and you have trouble moving around, see the doctor.
Apart from this, prepare yourself for an emergency by
1. Keep a fully stocked first-aid kit in your home and car.
2. Have up-to-date copies of each person’s medical history in your home and car.
3. Past an emergency contact sheet next to each phone in the house.
This is an emergency Contact Sheet format:
FOR AN EMERGENCY: DIAL 100
Police:
Fire:
Hospital name: Phone:
Doctor’s name: Phone:
Dentist’s name: Phone:
Pharmacy name: Phone:
Health insurance plan:
Emergency Contact of a family member
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#13
There are a few basics:
1. Know how to reach emergency services and know where you are. In the US it is 911 but if you travel it will be different. Stop taking video and call 911. Follow the instructions of the dispatcher and don’t hang up until the dispatcher does. The dispatcher can talk you through hands only CPR and some other basic treatments.
2. Remain calm, you lose the ability to think rationally when you are panicked. You can have your breakdown later if needed.
3. Know when to help and know when to leave.Sometimes it is better to call 911 than try and do it your self. When in doubt call for help. That is why they are there. It is easier to put out a kitchen fire than the whole house because the homeowner tried to put it out themselves.
4. Take a CPR and First Aid course. There are many places to find one. the local fire department, Red Cross, hospital, your parks and rec department or local school or community college.
5. Know where your closest AED, first aid kit and fire extinguisher are and how to use them. Make sure they are in date and well stocked. The acronym for using a fire extinguisher is PASS – Point, Aim, Squeeze and Sweep. Make sure it is the right type for the fire you are trying to put out.
6. Always know an alternate way out of where ever you are. The closest exit may be blocked or dangerous.
7. Have an emergency plan and practice it, especially if you have kids. Make it a game and make sure they know to never go back in the house after a toy or pet. Set up a safe meeting place.
8. Make sure you have working smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and you change the batteries when needed. Depending on the model at least once a year. So new smoke detectors have 10 year batteries. Replace your smoke detectors every 10 years.
If I think of any more I’ll add them later.
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#14
Whenever thinking about providing any first aid remember thsi algorhym
1. make sure it is safe for you to engage (also make sure throughout your effots in helping never do anything unsafe for you.
2. Try to ascertain what the problem is
3. Knowing what the problem is will let you decide what you need ie:first aid kit, 911 or an AED
4. If a person in step 2 is unresponsive check to see if they ae breathing for 5–10 seconds
5. If not breating immediately begin chect compressions.
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#15
If the driver of the taxi you have hailed is behaving suspiciously, this little trick may just save your life.
Make a call or pretend to make a call to someone, anyone (doesn’t matter).
In the course of the conversation, enunciate the digits of the taxi numberplate (could just be the last 4…as long as the driver hears those digits)
The cabby has no clue what the purpose behind the call is; all he knows is that his taxi is now identifiable by a contact of the passenger. Odds are he won’t try any stunts on that ride.
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#16
Do this when you find an ATM card…
Call the toll free number and give your contact details.
The bank will call the card holder through the ATM card number provided by you and will redirect to contact you.
Later the card holder can come and collect it.
Many don’t know what to do with it when found. Same happened with us but after few minutes my friend User-10785306998583678879 called the number and the owner contacted us and took it back.
Sure it was life saver. How?
The guy when came to collect the card told that he admitted his mother in hospital yesterday.
While going he lost his ATM and couldn’t find anywhere in the dark.
It made his day as he was badly in need of money
So please do care to call the toll free number.
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#17
Life saving hack
Please Please do not get down from bus or train until aand unless it has completely stopped.
Few days before I got down a moving bus although I was safe , just few bruises but then I realised that any mishappening could have occured because my small mistake.
This seems to be very basic but it can save your life .
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#18
Stop. Think. Act. You almost always have more time than you think you do because your brain is going a zillion miles per hour. Take the time and figure out what the real danger is, prioritize your response, that roll into action.
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#19
Mine probably isn’t as extreme as others but here goes… when I was in 7th grade, I was going through I really rough time. I was in a ton of pain due to a condition called CRPS (which is rated higher than childbirth without pain medication, cancer pain, and amputation without anesthetic on The McGill Pain Index), losing friends, and losing my ability to walk. I didn’t want to live. It was too much pain and too much trouble. I begged doctors to amputate my leg, because at least then there would be an end to the pain. They said no. I tried to find hope again, but it was hard, and we were fighting with insurance. A simple word that has saved me so many times on so many days is “Hi”. Other notable mentions include: just a smile, compliments, and “I believe you”. It turns out that all I really needed was to feel like I mattered.
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#20
While learning how to pilot, just after soloing, I was sent out (solo) to practice recovery from stalls and turning stalls in our local practice area. I’m not sure about these days, but back then (~1982) they didn’t teach spin recovery to private pilots. They had taken up the attitude of a properly trained pilot won’t ever get into a spin.
I had read an article in some flying magazine just prior to this flight and it outlined how the FAA had been talked into stopping the requirement for instruction on spin recovery, because too many potential pilots found that “maneuver” too intimidating/scary and quit the training. I’m not sure if the FAA gave in because of what Cessna did or not, but apparently the Cessna 150 (typical training aircraft at the time) was designed to automatically get out of a spin, IF you let go of all the controls. And that is totally not logical. But I remembered that, thank goodness.
So while (badly) practicing a turning stall, I indeed fell into a spin. I remember yelling at myself, almost as if I was the instructor, to let go of everything, and I obeyed myself!
What happens then is the plane automatically goes into a steep dive instead (due to the plane’s aerodynamic design) , and that, I could pull out of on my own and obviously did so, or I wouldn’t be writing this!
I went back to home base, shaking like a leaf, and told my instructor, and he decided, rightly so, that we should go do spin recoveries on our next lesson. Which we did, and they are bit scary, in my humble opinion!
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#21
I was walking back to work from my lunch break near Chinatown in San Fransisco. Walk sign was on and I was mid-way through the intersection. Approaching the red light was a two-decker, open top tourist bus with plans to turn right. It was in motion and didn’t fully stop. I barely registered it as I was almost to the safety of the sidewalk. I heard someone scream but I didn’t look, I immediately took a very big hop-step forward and felt the heat of the bus brush past my neck.
Then more yelling as pedestrians around me scolded the bus driver for almost hitting me. But I was too in shock to do anything more than keep walking.
The scream definitely alerted me that something was wrong and I’m grateful my response was to step forward and not stop and see what the scream was about. I didn’t have time for that.
Not sure I would have been hit hard enough to be in mortal danger but it would have hurt.
#22
During an Earthquake
Get under a sturdy table or other piece of furniture. If there isn’t a table or desk near you, cover your face and head with your arms and crouch in an inside corner of the building.
If outdoors, Stay away from buildings, street lights, and utility wires.
If in a vehicle, stop as quickly as possible and stay in the vehicle.
During a Stampede
Keep your hands up by your chest, like a boxer – it gives you movement and protects your chest.
If you fall and cannot get up, keep moving by crawling in the same direction of the crowd, or if that is not possible, then cover your head with your arms and curl up into the fetal position (do not lay on your stomach or back, as this dangerously exposes your lungs).
During a Flood
If you get caught in flood then, your body direction should be in parallel with flow legs in the direction of water flow.
Use head as a rudder to steer your direction & legs to kick the obstacles which came across to clear the path.
Sticking out to any floating objects keeps yourself away from drowning & chance of looking out for help.
During a wildfire
Stay low to the ground. Cover your nose and mouth with a wet cloth, and hold it there until you get to safer grounds.
Look for nearby areas that are free of trees and brush. Places which have already burned are sometimes the safest place to go, if you do not have any other options. However, you should ensure that the area is completely extinguished before proceeding, as lingering fires could cause burns and breathing problems.
During a plane crash
Choose to sit in the tail of the aircraft. Keep your seat belt on at all times.
Read the safety card and listen to the pre-flight safety speech before take off.
During Emergency, Put your oxygen mask on before assisting others. Brace yourself against the seat in front of you. If you don’t have a seat close in front of you, bend forward and put your chest on your thighs and your head between your knees. Cross your wrists in front of your lower calves, and grab your ankles.
In the case of a crash in water, put on your life jacket but do not inflate it.
Stay low as you escape, to duck under the level of smoke. Get out of the airplane as quickly as possible through nearby exit.
While crossing a road in the dark
Unlock your mobile screen & wave it while crossing the roads in dark, as the vehicle drivers may not see you if you cross without it which might lead to accidents too.
Spread the word. Save lives ! 🙂
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#23
You know what i can bet 7/10 don’t know how to use fire extinguisher.
There fire extinguisher placed in public places but it is of no use if you don’t know how to use it. It is really simple and it will just take 5 minutes to learn. Learn how to use it. It may save your life. I am providing step by step guide here.
You will just have to follow P. A. S. S rule
1. Pull the safety pin
Every fire extinguisher has a pin inserted into the handle that prevents the fire extinguisher from being discharged by accident. Grab the ring and pull the pin out from the side of the handle.
Now that the extinguisher is ready to discharge, hold the device so the nozzle is pointed away from you.
2. Aim the hose at the base of the fire.Hold the lower handle lever (the carrying handle) with one hand and grab the hose or nozzle with the other hand. Point the hose directly at the base of the fire, because you have to put out the fuel that’s burning. Do not aim the hose at the flames.
With carbon dioxide extinguishers, keep your hands away from the plastic discharge horn, which gets extremely cold.
3.Squeeze the lever. To release the extinguishing agent, squeeze the two levers together with one hand while you aim the hose at the base of the fire with the other. Apply slow and even pressure when you squeeze the levers.
To stop discharging the extinguisher, release the levers.
4.Sweep the hose from side to side. To extinguish all the fuel, slowly sweep the hose back and forth over the base of the fire as you discharge the extinguisher. Move closer to the fire as the flames die down.
Continue discharging until the fire goes out
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#24
If you’re in a car that ends up in a river or lake and is sinking rapidly, don’t waste your energy and panic trying to get the windows and doors open (you won’t be able to.) Stay calm and wait for your car to hit the lake/riverbed. When it fills up with water, the doors should pop open with ease due to the pressure equalising and you can make your escape. You’re much more likely to drown by panicking and thrashing around trying to break put.
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#25
I was in the hospital, receiving an infusion of potassium through a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) line.
The phlebotomist came by for my morning lab work … at about 5:40 in the morning.
At about 6:10, the light came on. The resident came in. The charge nurse came in.
“What’s going on?” I asked.
“You’re hyperkalemic [you’re potassium is too high].”
“10 units of IV regular insulin and 50 gms of glucose [50% solution] NOW! How high is it?”
“7.5”
They had drawn it from above where the potassium was infusing.
I remembered the treatment from 20+ years earlier, during my cardiac anesthesia fellowship.
#26
This person wasn’t trying to save my life, but I think she did. It was in a school PE class. We had a trampoline – I wasn’t on it, but was one of the people ‘standing in’ as we called it, round the sides – one person at each short end, and two on the long sides. The person on the trampoline was a male sports teacher. Another teacher came up to us, and told me to take a message to somebody or other. There was a wall behind me, so I had to duck under the trampoline to get to her, and as I straightened up, the teacher on the trampoline landed awkwardly – perhaps on the springs or the edge – and the whole trampoline jerked across the floor and crashed into the wall where I had been standing, leaving a big hole in the wall. I’m sure if I had still been standing there, it would have gone right through my ribs – I can’t believe I would have survived that.
#27
You are in a lift on the 19th floor of a building. Suddenly the lift cable snaps or becomes disconnected. You are about to die. The lift is going to fall straight down its shaft at high speeds. In a few seconds, the lift will be demolished. You are at a high risk of death. You have maybe a 1% chance of surviving.
Cable operated lift is connected with several cables except hydraulic lift. If the main cable in the cable operated lift is disconnected or snapped, simultaneously remaining supporting cables are disabled because these can not carry the sufficient weight of the lift. As a result, the lift will fall down quickly. On the other hand, there is a central hydraulic pillar in the hydraulic lift which maintains the balance of lift box. If the hydraulic pillar is ineffective, then supporting chains which is connected with the hydraulic lift help to save the lift from fall down quickly. Surprisingly, these chains only reduce the falling speed of lift somewhat but these does not carry the lift for long time.
Basically, generator or cable failure may result in a lift malfunction. One group of researchers at the MIT center for Biomedical Engineering suggest that, at this situation don’t panic and jump. Try to be calm and quiet. When we stand up, the whole weight of our body are carried on our feet. So, if the lift had been fallen down from 19th floor to ground floor due to cable malfunction, your legs will be fractured or highly injured or other severe injured may occur. You may die. So, the best solution of save your life is to lie in the center on the lift floor as early as possible. Stretch your hand and leg wide as much as you can. The body position should be flat on the floor. Your whole weight of body will be shared by different parts of your body. The pressure will be passed through different organs of the body equally. But remember one thing, you must lie flat on your back on the floor and if it is possible, cover your face and head by something for getting rid of injury. If there are more people in the lift and shortage of space, at least it is better to sit down altogether. As a result, you will have maximum chance to survive despite some injuries. So, when the lift is landed due to cable disconnected on ground floor with high speed, at least this useful trick will save your life.
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#28
By chance you happen to walk along in an area with dense vegetation,where poisonous insects live, apply odomos over the skin exposed.No insec tcan stand the smell of odomos.
If a bee hive is disturbed accidentally and bees start swarming all over , pull up your shirt and cover your face fully with cloth(shirt).The bee cannot sting through cloth. At least to save face which has vital organs,eyes,mouth,nose and ears,face must be completely covered with cloth.When you go trekking in wild forest area, you can take a shawl.After covering,just sit instead of standing so as to enclose your entire volume under cloth cover.This way you can save yourself from bee sting.
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#29
You just do. Your brain knows what to do and only lets you think logically. If you have anxiety issues normally you won’t during an emergency. I have panic and anxiety issues and I panic when nothing or very little is wrong or at the fear of something happening. I also am very disorganised and unable to think of how to handle situations strategically without it taking me a fair amount of time to work it out. However during emergencies this all changes. My head is so clear and so calm and I am so orderly. This is normal. During emergencies we go into fight flight mode and emotion is dulled because you don’t need your emotions to be at the forefront of your mind right now, they will just hinder you and take up brain power that should be used for problem solving. That blood surge you feel is your heart getting more oxygen and nutrients to your body and brain so you can think and act fast.
make sure you have an emergency go bag. Everyone should have one. Fill it with 2 weeks of basic supplies including food, first aid, matches etc. that way you just grab that one bag and leave.
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