Webelos Requirement: First Responder

Webelos Adventure: First Responder

Do all of these:

1. Explain what first aid is. Tell what you should do after an accident.

1. What is First Aid
2. First steps in First aid, The ABCs

2. Show what to do for the hurry cases of first aid:

   1. Serious bleeding
   2. Heart attack or sudden cardiac arrest
   3. Stopped breathing
   4. Stroke
   1. There isn't' really treatment fro stroke, per se, but you need to identify stroke, note the time and get them to medical help immediately. 
   2. This is because there is a medicine which will only help for so many ours after the stroke. so the time is very important
   5. Poisoning
   6. link to old hurry cases, everything but stroke,  

3. Show how to help a choking victim.

1. They retired it, but teach the boys about the ex-hurrry case of choking, teach the Heimlich. It saved my older son on two separate occasions... 
1. The video is a bit long winded, but she teaches it very thoroughly.

4. Show how to treat for shock.

1. Treat for shock (links to lots of stuff here)

5. Demonstrate that you know how to treat the following: (a nice simple guide, sub-links below)

   1. Cuts and scratches
   2. Burns and scalds
   3. Sunburn
   4. Blisters on the hand and foot
   5. Tick bites
   6. Bites and stings of other insects
   7. Venomous snakebite(Actually not of the same site)
   8. Nosebleed (Scroll down for treatment)
   9. Frostbite

6. Put together a simple home first-aid kit. Explain what you included and how to use each item correctly.

1. This one can vary wildly based on need  and opinion, so here is the Boys Life answer
2. Make this and a hiking mini med kit for Webelos Walkabout at the same time for a 2 for 1.
3. My plan is more like this
   
   
4. But with different stuff in the bags (my way gets expensive, but I have a lot of this on hand already)
1. Everything linked here is bulk to try to get enough for the whole den, this is amazon and it adds up quick, 
1. If you are on a budget, a baggie of bandaids and some triplebiotic creme and you're covered.
2. I'm using the fancy mylar outer bags, because I have plans for them all year.) 
1. For the inner bags sandwich snack bags for most, I prefer the slide lock ones, they seem to be easier for the boys to handle.
2. Mark each bag with a sharpie as to it's purpose ie "bandaids"
3. No pills, or oral medicine. Its just a safety decision when they are BSA they they can have oral meds.
4. BZK towelettes, 

1. 5-10 per kit,3 in a pinch
1. Yes alcohol swabs are traditional and multi use, but they sting, the boys will actually use these on to clean minor cuts.
5. 3+ individual packs of Water based Triple Anti Biotic Creme 

1. Takes up far less space and each one stil has plenty Mos tube are just too big.
2. 
   
6. Bandaids, assorted, fill to taste
1. I recommend including the following 
1. 1+ large band aid to cover a scraped knee
2. 2+ stretch finger tip bandages
3. Normal assortment of bandages, prefer stretch.
1. Say 5 of each size
4. A couple water proof bandages, for swimming.
5. This assortment covers all of those except the finger tip, get something like it. Curad brand had the finger tips but cost twice as much
   
7. A few cotton balls, in a snack Ziploc bag
1. If you use the grease based triple antibiotic creme, they combine to make a fire starter in a pins, I just prefer the water.
8. A small  roll of medical tape, in case they can't hold the band-aids in place of need to use it to hold other bandages. It's also good for blisters, preventing friction.
   
    
1. Small sun screen, of some kind, get the little tubes designed for a purse or swim bag, or my favorite spf lip balm, and in a pinch it can be used for sun screen.
   
1. For my personal kit I put this but it's more expensive
1. SpF 50 and Waterproof
2. A few large gauze pads, I prefer the ones called large sponges.
1. This and the tape cover a lot of less common wounds.
2. Put a few band aids, triple antibiotic creme, sunscreen, and the tape in one bag and you've got a basic hiking kit

7. Create and practice an emergency readiness plan for your home or den meeting place.

8. Visit with a first responder.

   
1. Call your local EMS station and Go for a visit, maybe even ask them to go over the hurry cases and some basic first aid. Don't for get to take them something yummy as a thank you!

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