First Aid
Skipper & First Mate’s Check List
Symptoms Risk Action
| MOB – Secondary Drowning | Lung membranes clog up to 48 hrs afterwards | Call Coastguard |
| Cold water immersion | Shock & post immersion collapse | No vertical lifts |
| Choking | Obtain consent to back slaps-abdominal thrusts | |
| Paleness, cold, fast/shallow breath, fast weak pulse | Shock | Treat cause, lie down, raise legs, loosen tight clothes, keep warm & reassure |
| Sea Sickness | Brain thinks poisoned | Sedative, warm below |
| Fractures | Structural damage & support lost | Keep casualty still & maintain support |
| Cold Injury | Hypothermia | Cold quick OK warm quick e.g. shower. No CPR for hypothermia or bottle |
| Face injury Arms (can’t lift) SlurringTime for ambulance | Stroke with blood clot to brain | Speedily call Coastguard |
| Head Injury | Breathing, compression concussion | Unresponsive – call Coastguard |
| Burns | Protective skin removed | Irrigate under tap 10minsClingfilm then bandage |
| Bleeding | Unnoticed internally | Check wound then tie bandage & casualty applies pressure |
| No breathing | Heart attack | Need Defibrillator quickly |
| Request permission before handling casualty | Assault | Only Epipen for anaphylactic attack can be applied without consent |