| This textb00k is designed to be used in conjunction with theAmerican Red Cross Standard First Aid and Personal Satety course.The purpose of the course is to provide tile general public with tileknowledge and skills called for in most situations in which emer-gency first aid care is required and medical assiscance is not exces-sively delayed. The textbook also incorporates information onpersonal safety and accident prevenuon, so that people can learnthe causes of accidents and act to eliminate or minimize such causes. Because of significant developments in the fields of first aid forforeign body obstruction of the airway, oral poisoning, and snake-bite, tile Red Cross asked tile Division of Medical Sciences of tileNational Research Council. National Academy of Sciences. to re-view these suhjects for the [~urpose of updating material in the1973 edition. As a result of these reviews, more current remedialprocedures have been defined through the Emergency MedicalServices Cominittee of the Division of Medical Sciences and pro-vided in this second edition of the STANUAaD FroST AIn ANn PEa-SONAL SAFETY textbook. We wish to express sincere appreciationto the Emergency Medical Services Cmnmittee. under the chair-manship of Dr. Donald S. (;ann, and to the staff of the NationalAcademy of Sciences for their assistance in this endeavor. For many years the Red (]ross has relied upon the NationalAcademy of Sciences so provide clnTent recommendations fordeveloping the content of first aid materials. Tile assistance of theNational Academy of Sciences assm es tile authoritative basis forthe course content of these materials and provides a channel forextending the first aid recommendations of the medical profes-sion to the American public. C. P. Dail, Jr., National Director, First Aid Programs. and DonA, Sleeper, Assistant National Director, First Aid Programs, wereresponsible [or the coordination of materials and the develop-ment of the revised sections contained in this edition. Illustra-tions are by Angeline V. Culfogiems. For their assistance with tile 1973 edition, tile Red Cross ex-presses deep appreciation to the staff of the Division of MedicalSciences and to the Ad Hoc Committee for Revision of the RedCross First Aid Manual, under the chairmanship of Dr. WarrenH. Cole, University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago. Thiscommittee provided technical review and advice regarding the |
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