Question

First Aid Scenarios: You are playing tennis with your friend. You hear an older man on the court next to you say he hasn't played in quite a while. He says his left arm and shoulder are a bit sore. Suddenly he grabs his chest. He stubbornly says he'll continue as soon as this passes. You go over to offer help. When you ask him to lie down in the shade he refuses because he says he feels nauseous. What are your next actions as a first aid responder? What is the injury or illness you are treating? What is the appropriate first response

Answer 1

First we should treat chest pain because these may be the symptoms of heart attack.

*Keep him/ her clam and relax: make the person to sit down and try to keep calm, loosen the tight clothing which he/she is wearing. Never leave the person alone.

*Call for emergency: Call an ambulance or medical help line.

*Give aspirin: tell them to chew or swallow aspirin before giving make sure that he/she don't have any allergy towards aspirin.

*Give CPR if the person become unconscious: both chest compression and ventillation should be done.

*Give reassurance: tell the person that nothing is happened, you are fine like that before the ambulance arrives.