Emergency health situations

Natural Disasters
Earthquake
Hurricane Tornado

Tsunami Fire Flood

 Burn

For small burns, towels soaked in cool water

should be applied immediately. Neither ointments
nor greases should be applied to large burns.
Drown

Cardiopulmonary
Resuscitation (CPR)

Sinking ship
Life boat
What can happen if you are injured?

Sling

Fracture
Splint
Broken
Bone

Cast
Call for help
 Activity 1
Describe how you would respond to the
following disasters.

Ex. I would look for food and drinking

water and I would try to call for
help. I would also look for victims
in worse shape than me and try to
help them.
Activity 1
 Activity 2
Discussion Questions:
1. Have you ever been in an emergency
health situation?
2. Do you think you would act heroically
in a disaster situation, or would you
panic?
3. Think of major disasters that have
taken many lives in the past. Were
they predictable? Could they have
been avoided?
 Activity 3

• How would you respond to…

– …an earthquake?
– …a drive-by shooting?
– …a woman in labor?
– …a child with a broken leg?
– …an unconscious elderly person?
– …a lightning storm?