MEDICAL EMERGENCY

Provide first-aid care in case of minor injury or illness. Do not move or carry victim. Use first-aid equipment, protective gloves, and CPR masks available in department first-aid kits.

From your cell phone, call Cottage Security. Give your name; describe the nature of the medical problem and the campus specific location of the victim.

In case serious injury or illness occurs, immediately perform these five steps:

• Notify emergency personnel.
• Ask the victim:
  • “Are you okay?”
  • “What is wrong?”
• Check for signs of life. If you are certified in CPR training, give CPR to the victim.
• Control serious bleeding by direct pressure on the wound.
• In the event of a heart attack, lie the victim down.
  Note: if the heart attack victim is conscious and prefers to sit up, allow him/her to do so.

Assisting a hearing impaired person in an emergency:

• Flash the lights on and off, wave or tap the shoulder of the deaf or hard of hearing person to alert him/her to an emergency.
• Face a deaf person directly and speak slowly and naturally, even if an interpreter is present. He/she may be trying to read your lips.
• Have a pad and pencil available so that you can both understand the same message. This is especially necessary if you cannot understand his/her speech. Write slowly and let the deaf person read as you write.

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