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Emergency contacts and services
Emergency numbers should be kept up to date. Make sure you know who to call in a crisis and when to call an ambulance if someone is injured or in need of expert care.
First aid
First aid skills can save lives. Learn about first aid for bites, stings, cuts, needlestick injury and head injuries.
- Bites and stings - first aid
- Burns
- Burns and scalds - children
- Choking - children
- Fainting
- First aid - basics
- First aid kits
- Frostbite
- Head injuries - first aid
- Head injury - home care tips
- Heat stress and heat-related illness
- Nosebleeds
- Skin cuts and abrasions
- Spiders
- Sports injuries
Seek medical attention
Always seek medical help for serious injuries, severe pain, burns, heart problems, asthma attacks, poisonings and whenever you are unsure.
- Abdominal pain in adults
- Altitude sickness
- Asthma
- Bone fractures
- Burns
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
- Chest pain
- Child poisoning in the home - symptoms and treatment
- Drug overdose
- Electric shock
- Emergencies - when to call an ambulance
- Eye injuries - flash burns
- Eye injuries - foreign body in the eye
- Fever - febrile convulsions
- First aid - basics
- Fungi poisoning
- Heart attack
- Heat stress and heat-related illness
- Hypothermia
- Meningococcal disease
- Needlestick injury
- Shock
- Spiders
- Stroke - signs and symptoms
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