First Aid
First aid (wilderness first aid in particular) can help a person survive and function with injuries and illnesses that would otherwise kill or incapacitate him/her. Common and dangerous injuries include:
- Bites
- Bone fractures
- Burns
- Headache
- Heart attack
- Hemorrhage
- Hypothermia (too cold) and hyperthermia (too hot)
- Infection through food, animal contact, or drinking non-potable water
- Poisoning from consumption of, or contact with, poisonous plants or poisonous fungi
- Sprains, particularly of the ankle
- Wounds, which may become infected
The survivor may need to apply the contents of a first aid kit or, if possessing the required knowledge, naturally occurring medicinal plants, immobilize injured limbs, or even transport incapacitated comrades.
Read more about this topic: Survival Skills
Famous quotes containing the word aid:
“Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature’s aid with intellect.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Frustrate a Frenchman, he will drink himself to death; an Irishman, he will die of angry hypertension; a Dane, he will shoot himself; an American, he will get drunk, shoot you, then establish a million dollar aid program for your relatives. Then he will die of an ulcer.”
—Stanley Rudin. The New York Times (August 22, 1963)