1. Skill Section: Wilderness First Aid
Picture: Trolltunga (Troll’s Tongue), Skjeggedal, Norway.

2. The Safe Airway Position
Skill 2/17:
The Safe Airway Position
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3. Learning Intentions:
To practise how to approach a casualty;
To enable you to place an unconscious casualty into the Safe Airway Position.

4. Success Criteria:
By the end of this session everyone should be able to:
• Be able to approach a conscious and an unconscious casualty;
• Place an unconscious casualty into the Safe Airway Position.

5. Activities: Revision: - ABC Drills - Approaching a Casualty
Practical: The Safe Airway position

6. 3 ‘P’s of First AID
To PRESERVE life
To PREVENT worsening
To PROMOTE recovery

7. ABC Drills
ASSESS the situation: danger to you/others? Casualties?
BREATHING: Are they breathing? Check/clear airway.
CIRCULATION: Pulse?