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What to Pack in a Camping First Aid Kit
Your Camping First Aid Checklist Are you looking forward to some time out this holiday season? If you’re heading off camping, or even if you’re off on a roadtrip – it’s worth the small amount of time it takes to…
Top 4 Free First Aid Apps
Carry Life-Saving Knowledge on Your Smart Phone In today’s world, we all want up-to-date information at our fingertips, and First Aid is no different. So in this blog, we’ll reveal the four First Aid Apps that put reliable, evidence-based, life-saving…
Childhood Falls & Injuries: STOP before you Scoop!
Step-by-Step First Aid after Childhood Injuries & Accidents Has your child ever fallen from a height in the playground? Or sustained injuries from falling off the top bunk or out of a tree? Crashed their bike? Or even had a…
Automated External Defibrillators (AED’s) Demystified
When most of us think of defibrillators, we think of what we have seen in dramatised medical programs. We imagine the word “CLEAR” and a loud noise as the patient jumps. So, it’s no wonder that I frequently see hesitation,…
First Aid: Australian Spider Bites
I don’t know about you, but lately I have been noticing spiders on the move around my house. First aid for spider bites is a common topic that I get asked about. So, I thought I would write a brief blog on…
After a minor head injury: the rest and recovery period
At the start of the footy season I wrote a blog about head injuries and concussion. At that point I could already tell that head injuries were likely to feature in our season this year. The boys in my son’s…
First aid kits: what I put in mine….
The WHAT of burn first aid
I have recently had a little run of accidently burning myself…. Once on the grill and once on the iron. I can hear you saying perhaps you shouldn’t cook, and definitely don’t iron!! “Prevention is the best first aid after…
Childhood scrapes and grazes: what is the right first aid?
The holiday season is here!! The weather is warm, kids are playing, the bikes, scooters and skates are out…. some might even be learning to ride a bike for the first time. Unless you wrap them in cottonwool, wounds, grazes…