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First Aid Exercises. Health Service

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These exercises should first be practiced within the patrol, then by larger units in camp. The method of practice is as follows: half of the patrol, or unit, takes the role of patients, while the other half acts as the rescue team providing first aid (health service). The instructor checks whether the rescue is appropriate and well-executed. Marks are awarded for faithful portrayal of the patient’s role, as well as for quick and correctly performed rescue.

  1. Supporting the sick while leading them. 2. Carrying the sick or unconscious individually. 3. Dragging the unconscious. 4. Carrying the wounded in pairs, without equipment. 5. Carrying the wounded on stretchers, in pairs, threes, or fours. 6. Even step and mountain step. 7. Improvised stretchers. 8. Carrying on a chair. 9. Methods of rescuing those frozen, drowned, suffocated by smoke, poisoned by gas, and hanged. 10. Four methods of artificial respiration. 11. Dressing wounds and stopping bleeding. 12. Dressings for fractures. 13. Methods of rescuing after snakebite (or rabid dog bite). 14. How to treat burns and scalds. 15. Reviving the fainted and rescuing the unconscious.

  2. Types of unconsciousness. 17. Methods of rescuing the poisoned.

It is beneficial to combine rescue exercises with first aid.


Source of scan: Polona / National Library, marked “Public Domain”. View scan — image 71.

  • Type: game
  • Traits: Not stated in the source
  • Source: Herman A. Mojmir, Ćwiczenia i zabawy skautowe (1912)
  • Printed pages: 59–60
  • Digital edition: Digital edition · Source record
  • Open the edition at the relevant page: p. 59
  • Read the source text: ciz-071