I've received some questions before like "what do I do to help an accident victim?" or "how do I perform CPR?"
1. First of all before you help others you need to first protect yourself and make sure you are away from any dangers. Example when you are at the accident area and you never know if the vehicles might burst into flames, etc.
2. Call for help! Call for ambulance.
3. When theres a major accident, what you should do first is help out those who you think have better chance at surviving, ie victims who can walk out or crawl out. Lead them to a safe spot. Then only attend to those who need to be rescued like those stuck in the vehicles or the unconscious ones.
4. For those who have any bleeding areas you should try to control the bleed. You only need a piece of cloth and gently apply pressure on the affected area. If you want to tie the area ie the leg, you don't actually need to tie it too tightly as to tie one end of the cloth to a tree and the other end to another tree :P
5. If you see an unresponsive victim, you may need to start CPR. It would be good if you can perform CPR well. There are CPR courses available if you are interested to learn and will get a certificate at the end of it. Otherwise theres a good video here on youtube /http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9T25SMyz3A
Have fun learning. Oh and yeah, don't practice it on a real person because CPR is painful to a conscious person :)
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