It's very bad to interfere at the site of the bite. You shouldn't make incisions, cut marks with a dirty penknife or anything else. You shouldn't suck out the venom, you shouldn't apply a tight band or tourniquet to obstruct the blood flow, y

Jellyfish stings

Aug 18th, 2019 5m 57s

Professor David Worral: Most jellyfish have a sting of sorts and some are lethally dangerous such as the famous, notorious box jellyfish. What happens, if the, these box jellyfish touch you with their long tentacles, the tentacles will be br

Fish stings

Aug 17th, 2019 5m 46s

Professor David Worral: Fish stings are extremely painful. This is one of those beautiful, highly coloured, reef fish like the lion fish or turkey fish that are found in tropical waters which can sting with spikes along their back, or on the

Insect stings

Aug 16th, 2019 6m 20s

Professor David Worral: As long as the sting is embedded, it will be pumping venom into the wound, so you should remove the sting as quickly as possible and a recent study suggests that it doesn't matter how you do this, pull it out between y

Fevers

Aug 15th, 2019 6m 10s

Dr. William Bosu: Fever is commonly due to infection but we also have other causes of fever. This could be due, for example, to a body reaction to something that is not good for the body, it could also be due to a drug, it could also be due t

Bleeding 01

Aug 14th, 2019 6m 15s

Jill Volpie: This is very frightening and one's got to remind oneself to stay calm in these situations. If at all possible these days, it's important to try to avoid at least, direct contact with blood. Everyone, everywhere these days needs

Bleeding 02

Aug 13th, 2019 5m 53s

Jill Volpie: If you have very severe bleeding, the best thing to do is simply to find some pad, something clean, and press as firmly as you can into the wound. That should be dry and if possible you can use a bandage to bandage that into plac

Broken limb 01: Is it broken?

Aug 12th, 2019 5m 36s

John Pooley: If the patient's conscious, then obviously they'll tell you that they're in severe pain. The patient usually grimaces and tries to hold or guard against people touching the area that's injured. There could be swelling, there cou

Broken limb 02: To move or not to move?

Aug 11th, 2019 6m 5s

John Pooley: The object of the exercise is to try and make people more comfortable. It's because it reduces pain, makes people feel more confident about the outcome of their injury. So what we try to do is move the injured limb as little as

Broken limb 03: Further care

Aug 10th, 2019 5m 42s

John Pooley: By all means put a blanket on them to maintain their body heat. Don't put piles and piles of blankets on people, don't try to warm them up - just maintain their body heat. When they get to hospital, they may need an anaesthetic

Fainting 01

Aug 9th, 2019 6m 1s

Jill Volpie: The first thing to be aware of is that fainting is the body's own way of responding to a situation. It's actually encouraging blood flow, particularly to the brain and therefore one should always resist the temptation to sit the

Fainting 02

Aug 8th, 2019 5m 57s

Jill Volpie: Leave them where they are - either, if they're already sitting, perhaps to put their head down between their knees to encourage the circulation of blood or, if they're on the ground, perhaps elevate the feet slightly, just to enc

Burns 01

Aug 6th, 2019 6m 13s

Barry Powell: The mainstay of treatment for these kind of burns is water. And by that I just mean ordinary tap water. Don't go out and get ice bags, don't put your hands into buckets of ice - ordinary tap water which usually is at 8 degrees c

Burns 02

Aug 5th, 2019 5m 54s

Barry Powell: I don't think that fat and butter or any substance like that helps deal with the burn. One of the reasons why I advocate water is that not only is it extremely good for pain relief - far better than any tablets you can take - b

Burns 03

Aug 4th, 2019 6m 26s

Graham Easton: Other forms of dressing can be used to keep the burn clean and free of infection. The thin plastic films used to wrap food can sometimes make an effective emergency dressing. But if you don't have any, there are other possibili

Burns 04

Aug 3rd, 2019 5m 40s

Barry Powell: The answer to that is "No". The problem with children and burns is if you do put them into cold water, they drop their temperature, they become what is called hypothermic and that is not good for the child. For the child, first

Burns 05

Aug 2nd, 2019 5m 41s

Barry Powell: The obvious thing is to try and get that person away from where the fire is, if that is at all possible. The second thing is, if their clothes are on fire, and this is desperately important, make sure they lie down. If they sta

Diarrhoea 01

Aug 1st, 2019 5m 27s

Jill Volpie: The important thing to know about diarrhoea is of course that the patient is losing a lot of fluid and that this can very quickly turn into a serious situation of dehydration and can actually be a killer, and is a killer, in chil

Diarrhoea 02

Jul 31st, 2019 6m 11s

I think there's a big temptation to eat less or not at all; if one has diarrhoea one doesn't feel like eating. But of course it's very important that nutrition is maintained in this state. The body needs to continue to be fed and rehydration

Unconscious 01

Jul 29th, 2019 6m 5s

Peter Banham: This I am afraid is a fallacy. Lungs do not fill up with water. It is quite likely that the casualty in the water may have breathed in a little water but it's very unlikely for the lungs to be waterlogged. Certainly there would

Unconscious 02

Jul 28th, 2019 6m 2s

Fiona Winster: A-B-C is for airway, breathing and circulation. So the first of those, the airway. You first of all need to open the person's mouth and make sure that you can't see anything obvious obstructing their breathing. It could be that

Unconscious 03

Jul 27th, 2019 5m 53s

Fiona Winster: B is for breathing. You now need to check whether that person can now breathe. So what you do is keep their airway clear, keep your fingers under the chin, and you put your face down close to theirs, so that your cheek is over

Unconscious 04

Jul 26th, 2019 6m 15s

Fiona Winster: To breathe for him, first of all you make sure his airway is clear, so make sure the head is tilted, the chin is lifted. Then you pinch their nostrils shut with the index finger and the thumb of one hand; you put your mouth ri

Unconscious 05

Jul 25th, 2019 5m 37s

Fiona Winster: If you count aloud as you do the compressions, it'll help you get the right speed. So you just count one-and-two-and-three. Once you've done fifteen of those, you go straight back to the head and you do two more breaths, just

Guidelines

Jul 24th, 2019 6m 4s

Fiona Winster: The guidelines that we teach at Bart's City Lifesaver are those of the European Resuscitation Council. There will be slight differences from country to country around the world, but the basic principles always hold the same, in