Going on a first aid course can equip you with the knowledge and confidence to deal with many emergency situations.
In case of the latter, pack an emergency kit for the trunk that, at the least, contains jumper cables, a flashlight, ice scraper, flares or warning triangles, extra gloves and hats, blankets, snacks, a first aid kit and a small snow shovel and a bag of sand or cat litter to help should your car get stuck in the snow.
Take a good first aid kit, travel insurance and a baby backpack.
In Mrs Beeton's Book of Home Management, a best-seller for decades after it was first published in 1861, there is a chapter on first aid and home remedies - including a hot toddy cold treatment.
Pierre Pierre Blais, code-named "Tin Tin", is one of a large First Aid contingent patrolling the ice.
He added that it did not have emergency medical treatment facilities such as ambulances or a first-aid station underground.
The hospital can operate only "on a first-aid basis, " as the staff works without air conditioning or lights to care for about 250 patients, she said.
Bring packaged snacks, wet wipes, Ziploc bags, a change of clothes, disposable rain ponchos, sunscreen, bug repellent, water bottles, a small first-aid kit, small toys, coloring books and glow-in-the-dark sticks and necklaces (which the parks sell at dusk but they charge a fortune).
After a year on the road as a technician - basically a driver qualified in first aid - the trainee paramedic gets just six weeks in the classroom, followed by a few week's experience in hospital.
The state requires passing a written test, first aid training and proof of having made at least five trips on the whitewater river someone wants to guide.
While we've seen a few snazzy band-aids in our day, not to mention talking first aid kits, a nanofiber bandage that can heal typical skin wounds faster is about to go mainstream.
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Duct tape is widely used for first aid as a sort of temporary suture.
The administration has offered to send a humanitarian assessment team to Cuba as a first step to delivering more aid.
They ensure that each home has access to a bed net to protect the family from malaria, a pit toilet, first-aid training and other basic health and safety practices.
"The normal protocol for a medical emergency is for the conductor to administer first aid, but it is likely he would have had to put a message out to ask for help, " the spokesman said.
Mr. Penny, a mason, approached the Maryland Legal Aid Bureau for help a year after his first application.
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An ambulance was called and a doctor in the audience provided first aid, but Mr Smith was pronounced dead by paramedics.
Each child has an individual first-aid kit and a protective mask.
Mr Morris, a garden centre manager who has had first aid training, said that when he first arrived it appeared necessary that Mr Youdan needed further treatment.
The WFP fed 2m people in October, the first month of a large-scale aid project, but the figure is expected to rise to 5.1m by early 2009.
Most often, the guardians' job is to dispense first aid, since in a wheeled crowd of this size, accidents do occur, especially as La Septima narrows into the city centre and the historic La Candelaria district, turning Ciclovia into a kilometres-long peloton.
Not giving hands-on first aid but giving comfort, a bit of a chat and a laugh to the patients.
Well before the first aid application is due, a grandparent should transfer ownership of the account to a parent of the beneficiary.
The checklist, which wasn't created specifically in response to the incident in Colorado, recommended that theater operators verify that "security and front of house personnel have been trained for first aid, " according to a copy reviewed by the Journal.
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At home his family bandaged his bleeding head, and took him to the derelict local clinic which administered some first aid before sending him off to a better-equipped hospital in the holy town of Varanasi, some 70km (45 miles) away.
There should be nine data recorders aboard the first train, which will aid the investigation a great deal if they aren't damaged, Hersman said.
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The first shot will often be nothing more than a targeting aid, to be followed by a second shot or third shot, which will be required to home in on the target.
The coach of a teenage footballer from Wiltshire who suffered a cardiac arrest during a match wants all children to be taught life-saving first aid.
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In a separate development, the first of two Russian planes with humanitarian aid landed in the Syrian port of Latakia, Russia's Interfax news agency reports.
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