Have you ever had a request for more detailed first aid training for heart attacks, strokes, or allergic reactions? Do you train in areas where workers are at a higher than normal risk for hypothermia, snake bites, or specific types of injury, such as amputations or burns? With the release of the MEDIC FIRST AID Specific First Aid Topics series, you'll have no problem meeting those requests.

Divided into Illness and Injury categories, the new series of 21 supplementary videos easily integrates into the MEDIC FIRST AID Basic, Emergency Care, and Pediatric Training Programs. To use, simply show the videos within the Managing Specific First Aid Problems segment in each program.

Instructors have the option of selecting topics specific to their needs. For example, clients in cold weather locations might benefit from the "Exposure to Cold" video, which details basic treatment options for hypothermia and frostbite. Injury topics–which include responding to amputation and impalements–are an ideal fit for industrial worksites, where heavy machinery increases the risks for those types of injuries.

Each video can also stand alone, for use in a safety meeting, for personal use, or in situations where someone or some group wishes to learn more detailed information about a particular subject. For the untrained person, all videos come with an optional standardized introduction, which highlights the fundamental aspects of emergency care, pointing students toward basic training if they have not already received training.

The videos each run under 10 minutes, and follow a uniform structure. Real time scenarios or multiple topic vignettes set in numerous industrial, office, and site-specific outdoor locations are followed by bulleted instructions on how to conduct a patient history and assessment. Specific care instructions in contextual settings follow, and additional considerations round out each video.

Videos covering physical assessment and patient history, asthma, bites and stings, stroke, heart attack, seizure, and allergic reaction are currently available, with many more on their way. Each retails for $15. As more titles become available, we'll provide alerts right here, as well as in MEDIC News and Visions.

Please refer to the chart below for the complete video list.

Available Now–$15.00 each
Physical Assessment and Patient History, #1100
Responding to Allergic Reaction, #1101
Responding to Asthma, #1102
Responding to Bites and Stings, #1103
Responding to Seizures, #1104
Responding to Stroke, #1105
Responding to Heart Attack, #1109

Coming Soon
Responding to Diabetic Emergencies
Responding to Poisoning
Responding to Amputations
Responding to Burns
Exposure to Cold
Exposure to Heat
Responding to Impaled Objects
Responding to Chest Injuries
Responding to Eye Injuries
Responding to Head Injuries
Responding to Muscle and Bone Injuries
Responding to Soft Tissue Injuries
Splinting Muscle and Bone Injuries
Using Therapeutic Heat and Cold