1. Unit 23 – 1st Aid Poisons, Heat + Cold

2. A. Poisons
Usually Kids
Household Chemicals
Adults = Drugs

3. Treatment
911
Collect Vomit
Collect Poison
Lay on Side (?)

4. Poisoning (skin)

5. B. Heat Injuries (3) Heat Cramps
Painful muscle cramps due to loss of salts (Na/K…)
Give Rest
Bananas, Sports drinks…

6. 2. Heat Exhaustion Body is overheating Excessive sweating
Cool Patient off
Rest, give liquids
*If vomiting >> Hospital

7. Not notes - Heat Exhaustion
Cool off your patient

9. 3. Heat Stroke Body has failed >>> Overheated (104 F)
Hospital
Hot Dry skin
*Ice

10. Heat Stroke vs Exhaustion

11. C. Cold Injuries Hypothermia Drop in Temp (95 F) Warm patient
Warm drinks (no booze)

13. 2. Frostbite Skin destruction Cold gray waxy skin
Do not Rub (destroys skin)

14. More Frostbite

15. Frostbite hands

16. Not notes - Severe Frostbite
Next slide
Kind of Gross
Beck Weathers
Mt Everest climber
Left for Dead face down in a severe storm Next Day, discovered to have Carotid pulse

17. Beck Weathers

18. D. Altitude sickness Lack of Oxygen 8,000 feet
Headaches, confusion, nausea….
Rx – Lose
Elevation

19. Not Notes – Altitude Sickness (stages) Treatment - ???

20. E. Bites Spiders Clean - Hyd. Peroxide
Black Widow can kill very young/old

21. Not Notes – Brown Recluse (Fiddle Back)

22. Not Notes Brown Recluse – Tissue Cavitation

23. Not Notes - Colorado
Scorpions - Imported

24. 2. Snake Bites
Treatment: Tie off area above the bite Keep Bite area below heart Rest Hospital ? Catch Snake ?

25. Photos

27. Coral Snake – not native