Just enter any details you like on the registration page. Apparently, this is normally $11.99 for the electronic version, and $39.95 for the paper version.
FREE Emergency First Aid eHandbook 4th Edition (Normally $11.99)
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tightarse on 03/02/2014 - 00:00 survivalfirstaidkits.net.au (2984 clicks)
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Option to download PDF, or Zipped PDF…
http://www.survivalfirstaidkits.net.au/confirmation/e-handbo…
thanks
http://www.survivalfirstaidkits.net.au/literature_120741/Emergency_e-Handbook(PDF) (~23MB in size)
or save some of your bandwidth and download the zip version:
http://www.survivalfirstaidkits.net.au/literature_140455/Emergency_e-Handbook(ZIP)(~11MB in size)
edit: NVM
Nice work TA, very timely.
The wife & I were just discussing a family friend who died from a heart attack because nobody nearby knew enough basic CPR to keep him going the 15mins til the ambulance got there…I was mortified to hear that this still happens.
Big thumbs up on this post, hopefully might save a life!
You're not going to read a book /have difficulty remembering stuff learnt from a book when a situation arises when you need to do CPR.
Best way to learn it is to practice it and the best way for a lay person to do that is through a CPR course.
Pretty cheap - $50-100 I've seen locally. Definitely worthwhile if you're looking after a lot of elderly people or just want to be able to help out if something happens and you're the first/only person there.Just saying… (speaking from experience having done 20+ CPR events)
But still free is free :)
I agree, do a first aid course and it will sink in a bit better.
I haven't checked how up to date this first aid book is, but "Hands only CPR"is now being recommended for helping strangers, and has a similar survival rate to that which includes mouth to mouth.
Here's a fantastic demonstration by the British Heart Foundation: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ILxjxfB4zNk
First aid, CPR etc should be taught to every child, every year in secondary school.
I am still perplexed why it is not?i myself need to do a first aid course too
I am still perplexed why it is not?
Maybe it's about avoiding having unnecessary CPR being performed on little Timmy when he was not actually passed out, just having "nap time" !
I can appreciate that anything that increases ones odds in such a situation is a good thing, but the wording of your post seems to suggest CPR would have provided near-certain survival in that situation - I was lead to understand the CPR success rate is typically in the 5-15% but that was some years ago, not sure if it has changed?
The post is saying that if you use compressions only the chances of survival are close to those of mouth to mouth + compression (5-15%). Which is recommended for strangers as you can't be sure that they are disease free.
What part of "til the ambulance got there" did you not grasp adante???
IME, survival rates for CPR + defibrillation on shockable arrests are well over 50%…pretty sure the stats support this too!
FFS, even if it was only 1%, wouldn't you take that over zero chance???
Not if it were a politician.
Or a social worker.
Or…
Unfortunately, survival data for out of hospital arrests is poor. This probably reflects the fact that people who have actually cardiac arrests have usually had something catastrophically terrible go wrong in the first place. The survival rate is bad, and hasn't changed in many years. It's in the ballpark of about 5% internationally. The Australian data for out of hospital arrests is suggests that only 3-5% of out of hospital arrests survive. This rate is about 8-12% if the ambulance gets there. (Aus-ROC/Finn J presentation:Australian Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium. April 2012; Nichol G et al JAMA 2008;300(12):1423-3)
The poor survival rate shouldn't detract from the importance of CPR - in fact, if anything, it ought to should encourage people to learn CPR/basic life support. I'd highly encourage anyone/everyone to go to a CPR course - it might be the best $50-100 you ever spend.
So safety is only for the rich? :S
Popped the page into the wayback machine out of random curiosity, and seems it's been free since at least 2012. Not that it has any bearing on the intrinsic value of the book, just interesting as an example of how the attribution of a dollar value and time limit can make a freebie more attractive than if it were truthfully presented as normally free.
I got this a couple of years back. Handy to have on the phone to reference first aid for stings, sprains etc. Have used it a few times when there's no internet available.
Certainly can't hurt to have this on the Ipad in E-books just in case. Thanks!
can't hurt to have this on the Ipad
Can you please tell me how this is done. Is there a way to save it as an icon on the home screen? Thanks!
No worries, all you need to do is open the pdf in your safari browser. (by just clicking on the pdf web link that you provided)
Tap on the screen when the pdf displays, some options come up at the top and it should say, 'open in Ibooks' once it opens in there it stays in there and also becomes part of your backup when you sync in Itunes (if you have data settings set to back up app data)
I'm not sure how to put it in your home screen though, I tried and its not easy if at all possible. If I work it out I'll post back :)
Cheers.
Love your work greydaniel. Thanks again.
No worries, thanks for posting ;)
iPhone 8 will probably have a built in defibrillator (doubles as jump start for your car) ;-)
Any direct links ?