First aid specialty
Certification card
Hemostasis
Lifesaving treatment 1
Lifesaving treatment 2
Oxygen administration 1
Oxygen administration 2
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■Oxygen can
If you don't have oxygen nearby, you can use an oxygen that is sold at convenience stores etc. as a simple substitute.
You can buy easily at a low price. |
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■Oxygen poisoning
If patient breath high concentrations oxygen for a long time, symptoms of oxygen poisoning may appear.
The initial symptoms of oxygen poisoning are visual impairment, visual field abnormalities and convulsions.
Oxygen should be stopped if patient experience these symptoms. However, it is usually said that oxygen poisoning on land is caused by continuous breathing of oxygen at 70% oxygen for 24 hours and at 100% for 18 hours continuously.
So it is not much problem when patient is immediately transported to the recompression chamber. |
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■Notes
Under the some country law, oxygen administration is a medical practice that is only allowed for doctors.
If you are not qualified as a doctor and give oxygen, be sure to follow
the rules below.
Check the patient's willingness to use oxygen.
Let patient wear the oxygen mask and open and close the tank valves by the patient own hands.
Teach patient how to handle the device.
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