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Skills Unit: Wilderness First Aid. Skills 4 /17 : Casualty Packaging. Learnin g Intentions: To practise how to monitor and record medical information; To use emergency kit to ‘package’ an unconscious casualty against adverse environmental conditions. Success Criterion:
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Skills Unit: Wilderness First Aid
Skills 4/17: Casualty Packaging
LearningIntentions: • To practise how to monitor and record medical information; • To use emergency kit to ‘package’ an unconscious casualty against adverse environmental conditions
Success Criterion: By the end of this session every group should be able to: • Use emergency equipment to insulate an unconscious or incapacitated casualty.
Activities: • Revision: • - ABC Drills • - Approaching a Casualty • Practical: Casualty packaging • Practice: Casualty monitoring
Casualty packaging • Insulate & protect a casualty from harmful environmental conditions • Ground • Air (wind, rain/snow) • Prepare a casualty for movement • Casualty still needs to be monitored
Kit: • Survival Bag • Space blanket • Sleeping mat • Sleeping bag • Blizzard Bag • Warm/dry clothing • USE CASUALTY’S OWN KIT