St. John Ambulance First Aid Reference Guide: Preparing for emergencies at work, home and play

by St. John Ambulance Association

In an emergency, knowing what to do is key in saving someone’s life. Having the first aid skills to intervene will help you deliver care promptly when it is needed. Take charge of the situation with the St. John Ambulance First Aid Reference Guide by learning to assess the scene and manage a casualty. Our guide will teach you how to perform first aid for a myriad of scenarios which may include: airway and breathing emergencies, cardiovascular emergencies, wounds and bleeding, as well as bone and joint injuries.

Genres: Reference, Nonfiction, Health, Amazon

Kindle Edition

First published February 17, 2015

Reviews

[Arsh Hayer · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book because I wanted to get my first aid certificate. This book has a lot of pictures and is well written. It's a good book to have around so you can take a look at it every one in a while because you can easily forget some information. Along with this book, you should also watch the videos provided by the same company. It's nice to have the videos so you don't get tired of constantly reading the manual.

[Rachel Quinlan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent reference guide for all levels

Excellent reference guide to aid everyone in knowing how to respond correctly to any situation where first aid care required

[Alexis Corey]

This is a guide that I am always going back to. Great refresher and encourager.

[Leena Streitcher · Rating 5 out of 5]

That book is definitely fantastic.

[Cidney · Rating 1 out of 5]

Well I found this still unread on my ancient kindle which I am going to throw out as it's now obselete with no security updates for the past 2 years! But I love it, it would be like letting go of an old friend. However there are quite a lot of books unread on there which is why it's going to be getting a bashing this year.

This St John Ambulance Asociation first aid reference is dated 2017, so am assuming that it's the 2015 one being reviewed by others on Goodreads. It is fairly interesting, but having held first aid certificates all my working life, having to renew every 3 yrs, it seems a tad odd. Then I realised it's the Canadian version!! So they do things a little different to the British. If you knew no first aid at all then I suppose this would be a bit useful, but it is dated and we have moved on from then, so it's not totally reliable for today's use.

I loved the idea of finding 3 men and taking off their shirts and getting some poles to make a stretcher to carry off a patient, in the UK you are advised to only remove a person if their life is in immediate danger, otherwise wait for the paramedics to arrive. And the process of turning these shirts into a stretcher by buttoning them and turning them inside out and then threading the next shirt but in the reverse, ie reversing each shirt, so the first one if say facing right then the next one is facing left, then last one right, would probably take someone who isn't a scout quite a while to work it out and get it right, meanwhile your patient has quietly expired on the ground next to you.

I think I would give this a miss and look for an up to date version which would be more suitable to the UK. That would be best!

[Hayley · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is definitely a reference guide and not a ‘learn how to do first aid’ book. For me anyway. I’ve just been on a first aid course and it is a good refresher book, which I think is its intended purpose. I wouldn’t try to learn to do first aid with this though. (St John’s Ambulance does a fab course, recommended!)

[Christopher James Hale · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book.

This is a Good book to help in refreshing your memory and help towards your first aid course. I'd recommend it

[Alexandria · Rating 5 out of 5]

great resource

[Jessie · Rating 5 out of 5]

almost done with my first aid course yayyy

a pretty comprehensive guide on first aid and i definitely learnt a lot :D