The call for help-DIAL 911
1.  If an injured person is in distress but is breathing phone for help at once!

2.  If the victim is not breathing-help first, and phone later-or get someone else to phone.

3.  What to say:

• Give the phone number from which you are calling.
• Give the address and any special description of how to get to the victim.
• Describe the victim's condition as best you can-burned, bleeding, broken bones, etc.
• Give your name.
• Do not hang up!  Let emergency persons end the conversation. They may have questions to ask you or special information to give you about what you can do until help arrives. 

Seizures
It is an alarming sight; a person whose limbs jerk violently, whose eyes may roll upward, whose breath may become heavy with dribbling or even frothing at the mouth. Breathing may stop in some seizures, or the victim may bite his/her tongue severely, it may block the airway.

During the seizure:

• There is little you can do.
• Let the seizure run its course.
• Help the victim to lie down and to avoid injury.
• Keep him/her from falling onto furniture with sharp edges.
• Loosen Restrictive clothing.
• Use no force.
• Do not try to restrain a seizure victim.
• After the seizure:
• Check to see if the victim is breathing.  If he/she is not, give rescue breathing at once.
• Check to see if the victim is wearing a Medic Alert bracelet!  It describes emergency medical requirements.
• Check for signs of drug ingestion or poisoning.

Rescue Breathing
1.  Clear the airway:

•   A.  Hold the victim's mouth open with one hand using your thumb to depress the tongue.
•   B.  Make a hook with the pointer finger of the other hand, and in a gentle sweeping motion reach into the victim's throat and feel for a swallowed foreign object which may be blocking the airway.
•   C.  If you need to, reach all the way down to the voice box (larynx) and if there is a foreign object remove it.

•   A.  Put your hand on the victim's forehead, pinching the nose shut with your fingers, while holding the forehead back.
•   B.  Take a deep breath.  Open your mouth wide.  Place it over the victim's mouth.  Blow air into the victim until you see his/her chest rise.
•   C.  Remove your mouth from the victim's.  Turn your head to the side and watch the chest for a falling movement while you listen for air escaping from the victim's  mouth as he/she exhales.
•   D.  If you hear air escaping and see the chest fall you know that rescue breathing is working.  Continue until help arrives. 
•   E.  Repeat the cycle every 5 seconds.  12 breaths per minute.

•   A.  Be careful tilting a small child's head back to clear the airway. It cannot tilt as far back as an adults.
•   B.  Cover the child's mouth and nose with your mouth.
•   C.  Blow air in with less pressure than for an adult. Give small    puffs.  A child needs less.
•   D.  Feel the chest inflate as you blow.
•   E.  Listen for exhales.
•   F.  Repeat once every 3 seconds.  20 breaths per minute.

Bleeding
1.  The best way to control bleeding is with direct pressure over the      site of the wound.

•   A.  Use a pad of sterile gauze, if one is available.
•   B.  A sanitary napkin, a clean handkerchief, or your bare hand, if necessary, will do.
•   C.  Apply firm, steady direct pressure for 5 to 15 minutes.  Most bleeding will stop within a few minutes.
•   D.  If bleeding is from the foot, hand, leg or arm use gravity to help slow the flow of blood.  Elevate the limb so that it is higher off  the ground than the victim's heart.

Drug Overdose
A drug overdose is a poisoning.  Alcohol is as much a poison as stimulants, tranquilizers, narcotics, hallucinogens or inhalants.  Don't take drunkenness lightly.  Too much alcohol can kill.

1.  Call for emergency help at once. 
2.  Check the victim's breathing and pulse.  If breathing has stopped       or is very weak give Rescue Breathing. 
Caution:  Reviving victims of alcohol poisoning can be violent. 
Be Careful!  They can harm themselves and others.
3.  While waiting for help:
  A.  Watch breathing.
  B.  Cover the person with a blanket for warmth.
  C.  Do not throw water on the victim's face.
  D.  Do not give liquor or a stimulant.
REMEMBER:  alcohol in combination with certain other drugs can be deadly!

Heart Attack
Heart attack is the number one killer of adults over the age of 38.  Many heart attack victims die needlessly because they do not get help in time. 
1.  Warning signs include:
    A.  Severe squeezing pains in the chest.
    B.  Pain that radiates from the chest into the left arm or the neck.
    C.  Sweating and weakness.
 2.  If the victim is experiencing any of these sensations take no        chances.  Call for emergency help at once.
3.  Two critical life threatening things happen to the victim of a heart 
     attack:
    A.  Breathing slows down or stops.
    B.  The heart slows down or stops pumping blood.
4.  If the victim is not breathing-give rescue breathing immediately       and have someone call for emergency help at once.
5.  If you cannot detect a heart beat by taking pulse-either at the wrist or the carotid artery-use CPR.  Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation should  be given to the victim along with rescue breathing only by a person properly trained and certified.
Learn CPR.  CPR is a way of forcing the heart to continue pumping blood (carrying oxygen) through the lungs and out to the rest of the body where it is needed, if life is to continue.  CPR is too complicated to be taught from the printed pages alone.  Four hour courses are offered by The American Heart Association and The American Red Cross.  Many medical authorities agree that everyone high school age and above should learn both CPR and rescue breathing.