What is an emergency?

An emergency is “a situation that poses an IMMEDIATE RISK to life, health, property, or environment. that requires urgent intervention to prevent a worsening of the situation and has a high probability of escalating to cause IMMEDIATE DANGER to life, health, property, or environment”.

List of common emergencies

• Severe eye injury
• Victim not breathing
• Near drowning
• Coughing blood/Vomiting blood
• Wheezing with facial swelling
• Unconscious /unusually confused
• Poisoning/drug overdose
• Chest pain lasting longer than 3 minutes
• First time seizure/multiple seizures/seizure lasting longer than 5 minutes
• Uncontrolled bleeding even after 10” of holding pressure
• Fracture of bone with deformity and/or bone exposure
• Sudden or persistent pain