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Learn the 6-saving gestures

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

a150Six basic gestures to learn with the Red Cross
What to do when confronted with a person who has to fall, injuring themselves or who is unconscious? This report explains six simple things you can do easily in emergency situations.

Etienne Deloison, monitor national first aid trainer for the French Red Cross, and Olivier Ridolce, instructor-trainer-aid of the Red Cross, you are in preview, new national and international recommendations, which will be taught at the next school year.

a152Malaise
Faced with someone who does not feel good, look for signs of discomfort: sweating, pallor, various pains.

Put that person at rest in the position which suits him best.

Ask how long the discomfort lasts, if it is the first time it happens to him, if she takes medication or has been hospitalized.

Call the doctor or the emergency and send him the answers to questions. Follow his instructions.

In this case, the victim had not eaten offer him a sugar and water.

a153Do not move
The victim fell and complained of a sore back and head.

Remove potentially dangerous items on the site.

Ask the victim about his condition and ask him not to move.

Call the rescue: 15, 18 or 112 on your laptop.

Hold the head of the victim until help arrives, to avoid aggravating the situation.

Cover it.

a154Five slaps
The victim is choking with chewing gum it has swallowed the wrong way.

Initially, put it behind you.

Give it five blows between the shoulder blades to clear the airway.

a155Technical Heimlich
If the first method does not work, you must try or abdominal compression technique Heimlich.

Place your fist at the abdominal area above the navel and below the rib cage. Press your fist upward to push this area and free the airway.

The victim spit the object, coughing and breathing resumes.

Place it in position of comfort and call for help.

aa2The airway
You learn a person inert. Ask a question and give him an order (eg “squeeze my hand”) to check if she is conscious.

Here, the victim does not respond. She is unconscious loosen his belt and make sure that nothing impedes his neck. Place two fingers under the chin in the soft hand on the front and swing his head back carefully to identify the language of his throat.

Make sure the victim is breathing by placing your cheek near his mouth, to feel a breath. Check the abdomen and chest lowered and raised regularly.

aa3The recovery position
Here, the victim is unconscious but breathing. It must be placed in recovery position, not that she choked.

First place the arms of the victim (later reversal) at right angles. Then enter the second hand and place the back of his hand to his ear (see cons). Lift the knee to lever and swing the body carefully, without abruptly on the side. Thus, the head, neck and trunk remain aligned.

Keep rocking the elbow: the arm does not move.

aa4Emergency alert
Open the mouth of the victim to free the airways and end up stalling the person by putting her leg down so she does not resolution is restored.

Cover it, because it might be cool.

Alert relief.

a156Underwater
The victim is burned with the hot water e, reversing his glass of tea. Her hand and wrist become very red.

Take the victim quickly to a water point.

Leave plenty of running cold water over the wound for ten minutes.

Stop when the pain became a little blurred.

a157Compression point
You arrive at a place where someone has just cut. She bleeds profusely.

Start by cutting away the object being careful not to injure yourself.

Press on the wound to make a point of compression.

a158Give warning
Help the victim to lie down as soon as possible.

Hold the compression point.

Please call to a third person to give warning, specifying the exact location of the victim and the nature of his injuries.

Stay in contact with the victim until help arrives.

“From kiss the baby”: the magic of life

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

zzzzz21Fetuses The characteristic of “Man, from a biological, none other than reproduction. From the choice of partner for the birth of the child, retrace all the steps that the human body through.

zzzzz22Seduction First leg of our journey: the attraction between the sexes. The voice is a secondary sexual characteristic that plays a role in the seduction of another. Above, a unique image! The scanner allows for a true recovery of the vocal cords and lungs in the background.

zzzzz23Body Under the effect of caresses, the brain sends more blood to the skin surface. The camera records the heat waves of heat emitted by the body, which vary depending on their temperature. It can highlight an increase of 3 degrees of heat to the surface of the skin.

zzzzz24Partner Kisses and love we are feeling the effect of a drug. Taking cocaine active indeed the same brain areas.

zzzzz25Bisou Scientists have discovered the existence of taste receptors and taste buds on the inner surfaces of the lips.

zzzzz26Fertilization This amazing image was produced at the electron microscope, one technique to restore volume in the two sex cells of the human body: the egg and sperm.

zzzzz27Meeting The oocyte measures about 100 microns, the thickness of a hair-and microscopic sperm, which seeks to force a passage that does 3.

zzzzz28Marathon Even under favorable conditions (ovulation) intercourse does balance that once out of four “babies”. Must still reach a sperm to fertilize an egg.

zzzzz29Life Fourth week, the outline of the heart. Three weeks after fertilization, the heart beats!

zzzzz30Development It is called an embryo until the eighth or tenth week of pregnancy. In addition, we are talking about fetuses. In this picture we can clearly see the fetal limb and its vasculature.

zzzzz31Eye Located on the side of the head, the eyes move toward the front of the face gradually with the development of the head. They are still sealed.

zzzzz32Gender At 12 weeks, sexual differentiation occurs. Before it is impossible to say whether the mother is expecting a boy or a girl.

zzzzz33Appendix From the twelfth week, the genital tubercle begins to develop to tender or to a penis or a clitoris, and to a vagina.

zzzzz34Penis In boys, the penis is formed, followed 2 weeks later by the glans and foreskin.

zzzzz35First parent-child In the fifth month the fetus takes real facial expressions. Thanks to advances in 3D ultrasound, the fetal facial expressions become observable.

zzzzz36Ultrasound Because of the quality of these three-dimensional images, some parents will find similarities with members of their families.

zzzzz37Mimicry In the womb, the fetus is already beginning to enjoy some grimaces and other facial expressions.

zzzzz38Smile Although he began to smile or grimace in utero, it will take some time to understand your baby and absorb all our facial expressions.

zzzzz39Birth Eventually, when fetal lungs are finally ready to move from water to air they expel large quantities of proteins: the surfactants. By regurgitating this chemical cocktail, the fetus activates macrophages mother contained in amniotic fluid. These macrophages then penetrate into the uterine wall, his trigger inflammation and early contractions.

zzzzz40Technology The pictures obtained by 3D ultrasound are very accurate, as seen in this comparison with the face of a newborn child.