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c. Keeping our surrounding environment neat and clean.
d. Adopting safety measures to prevent ourselves from various accidents.
e. Managing mental stress properly.
f. Keeping us away from bad habits like smoking, alcoholism, etc.
g. Maintaining mutual relationship with family members and members of the
community.
h. Getting regular health check up to diagnose infirmity in our body.
i. Keeping us away from the people of bad habits.
j. Cultivating the habit of positive thinking.
k. Cultivating the habit of being result oriented in every activity.
l. Executing every activity or work in a planned manner in limited time.

Summary

1. An immediate care or treatment given to the victim or ill person before taking him/
her for medical treatment is called first aid.
2. First aid helps reduce the risk of further complications in the injured person before
getting medical treatment.
3. If an accident happens, immediate care and treatment is essential to the victim
before providing him/her medical treatment. For this purpose, first aid is necessary.
4. First aid reduces psychological fear as well as physical and mental pain of the
victim.
5. First aider should be calm and confident with the proper skill of handling the
situation.
6. First aider should have good communication skills to communicate with the victim,
his/her relatives as well with the doctor while providing medical treatment.
7. First aider should have the knowledge of his/her limits to go. S/he should not go
beyond his/her knowledge and skill while providing first aid to the victim.
8. The box in which various kits/materials required for providing first aid is called
first aid box.
9. For effective first aid, a first aider should have knowledge of ABC (Airway, Breathing
and Circulatory). The first aider who has the knowledge of ABC can only provide
effective first aid to the victim to safeguard victim’s life.
10. A first aid provided to the victim to restore breathing, if natural breathing stops, is
called artificial respiration.
11. It is essential to provide cardiac massage to the victim if s/he is unconscious, pulse
is absent and heart beat is stopped.
12. An injury which causes in any part of our body due to a external force or agent is
called a wound.
13. The injury in our body parts due to the heat of fire or any other hot objects is called
burn.

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