Recommended Web Sites

First Aid - FamilyDoctor.org offers these tips.

Burns: Taking Care of Burns - The American Academy of Family Physicians provides these tips for treating burn victims.

Nosebleeds: What To Do When Your Nose Bleeds - Great advice from FamilyDoctor.org

Basic First Aid - The National Agricultural Safety Database offers this refresher course on first aid tips, especially useful in the factory or farm setting. It is also available in Spanish.

Broken Bones, Sprains and Strains - The American Medical Association offers these tips for dealing with an injured person.

Dental Injuries:First Aid - This information on such topics as tooth fractures and knocked out teeth comes from MedicineNet.

Disaster Supply Kit - Your family will cope best by preparing for disaster before it strikes. Instructions for preparing a Disaster Supplies Kit and an Emergency Car Kit are provided by FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Dog Owner's Guide:First Aid Kit - Dog owners can treat minor injuries for their pets if they have the appropriate remedies, tools, and equipment available. The items listed here were included in a first aid kit that the Cincinnati Veterinary Medical Association gave to police dog handlers at a recent workshop.

Fast Aid First - How do you know when to seek treatment for a serious cut or when to treat it at home? Click through the links at this site to learn how to put FAST AID FIRST and understand the proper approach to treating serious wounds.

First Aid for Choking - The University of Oklahoma Police Department furnishes these instructions on how to assist a person who is choking.

First Aid Kit - KidsHealth tells you how to outfit a good home first aid kit.

First Aid & Safety for Parents - KidsHealth, from the Nemours Foundation, provides excellent first aid information for parents. The information is divided by categories such as: home safety, away from home, car and bus and similar topics.

First Aid and Self-Care Guide - This excellent resource is provided by the staff at the Mayo Clinic, and covers all types of first aid situations.

First Aid for Mountainbikers - This neat site gives advice on how to treat several dozen injuries you can sustain while mountain biking.

Focus on First Aid - MedicineNet provides this information on several dozen typical emergencies and how to prevent and treat them.

Home First Aid Kits - The American College of Emergency Physicians offers this advice.

Knocked-Out Tooth - KidsHealth tells how to preserve a tooth that gets knocked out so the dentist may be able to reimplant it.

Living Well/Living Safely - Excellent information from the American Red Cross and all sorts of safety issues both indoors and outdoors.

MEDLINEPlus First Aid - The National Library of Medicine provides these links to quality resources on the web.

Pet First Aid - Excellent advice from the American Animal Hospital Association on how to care for your pets when they have an emergency.

Pet First Aid Classes - The American Red Cross offers these classes, click on your state on the map to see if there is one near you.

Pets and Disasters, Be Prepared - Read this information from the Red Cross and be prepared before there is a disaster in your area.

ReadyAmerica - Great information from the Department of Homeland Security, on how to outfit a kit of emergency supplies, make contact plans for after a disaster, and protect your family and pets.

Seizures - KidsHealth tells parents what to do in case their child has a seizure.

What To Do In an Emergency- These tips come from the American College of Emergency Physicians. See also the frame on the right for more information, including insurance coverage for emergencies.