How to Treat a Head Injury | First Aid Training

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Any kind of head injury needs to be checked out by a doctor immediately.

You can get the person to the doctor yourself. But you need to call 911 if you see things like blood or clear fluid coming from the ears or the nose. If the person is disoriented, has slurred speech, feels like they're going to faint, loses consciousness.

Also, if their pupils are unequal size or they can't move their limbs. They start to go numb. You really want to get someone right away. So, you really want to call 911 for those things.

If you suspect a neck injury or head injury you want to lay them down. You want to keep them still. You don't want to move the neck or the head too much. You may dislodge something in here or put pressure on nerves or other underlying tissues that would cause more damage.

So, lay them down. Try not to touch them. Keep them calm. Keep them safe. If you're in a dangerous situation obviously you want to get them out of the dangerous situation because you don't want to be in more danger.

You want to check to make sure that they are still breathing. That they still have a pulse. If you can't get to a doctor right away you need to stay with that person until you can.

You need to check their cognition every two hours. Check their alertness. They can sleep. I know that there's an old wives tale that says don't let them fall asleep. But they can sleep. They can rest. Sometimes that helps them.

Every two hours. A good rule of thumb every two hours is to check their alertness and make sure that they are still cognition of what's going on.

The best thing to do for any kind of head injury or neck injury is call 911. Get help right away. Make sure nothing else is going on. Make sure there's no further damage anywhere else. And you want to get help quickly.

[Zasek]

I had a good one the other day. Maybe I should mailbox to a streetlight.

[nahbil]

head injuries are no joke i had two serious head injuries in one year and i'm affraid what the future holds ... talking about bad luck 😧

[PinupGirl]

What does the clear fluid look like... Like muccos or something else?

[CristlynGeorge]

Smone i know died yesterday..he fell from the 2nd floor while painting..
We called ambulance but his skull was broken and small portion of his brain came out...I wasn't at all scared n i stood by the body but i saw the blood oozing out of the head and the fractured/broken skull...i helped to put cloth around it but didn't know what to do .didn't have ice even...

I dunno if i could have helped ... he had a pulse but later he died ..im sure from blood loss...ambulance ckd wen they came...

Later i read that for such wounds you shouldn't apply pressure over the wound which luckily no knowing what to do i didnt..

I really wanted to help..i came to ck online if i could have..but apparantly ..ters nothing i could have done right..;-(

[JoseSanchez-scfe]

Damn every 2 hours? I’m pretty sure an ambulance would arrive At most within 30 minutes

[arshasonu]

can anyone please tell what to do when the weight fell on the head, please help me which doc to consult or which check up needs to be done

[Random-vdod]

So basically-
My bro throw a hat at my head
I lost too much blood
I got to the hospital
And got 3 injections-

[zzzzzzzzzz]

Too much time wasted in our hospital hotline 😂 they dont care if you dont have any money.

[isiginci]

Well u see yesterday December 16 around 3:30 pm I was on a hammock with a few friends I was on the hammock by myself with 2 friends swinging the ropes and I was having fun then I fall off and hit my head on a root my head was bleeding a lot and I'm 12 and my 2 friends were 11 and 10 so they told me to sit down we were all home alone and we didn't have access to a phone I lived nearby so my friends walked me home and I jumped in the shower and the whole bathtub was covered in blood I never called 911 for help or told my parents I still haven't told the, I haven't had any bleeding since. I stayed at my friends house for about 15 minutes trying to stop the bleeding. We never stopped it by my 11 year old friend Trey told me if I felt weird and told me to open my eyes and my pupils were the same size I didn't feel like in was going to faint or anything I felt nothing Diffrent except the my head hurt on the lower left side of my head I had a lot of hair so we couldn't tell were it was coming from exactly and I still don't know if I cracked it or anything but I don't feel Diffrent still I hid all the evedence I changed my pillow case because there was blood on it and washed my jacket the jacket was black so u did t realy see it that much I told my parents that my friend Trey had just poured water on my head so there was a stain. I do t know if they believed it and I'm not sure if there catching on or anything Shoud I tell my parents and seek medical attention or just not move a lot all day watching tv. I haven't seen my friends all day today and I still don't know how big g the cut is but all I know is that I'm ok. Something else happend a few weeks back me and Trey were melting plastic for some dum reason I don't know why but he said it was so cool and satisfying to watch so I agreed and his brother came out so I pushed the plastic behind this old box tv and while pushing it I burnt my pinkie finger and I burnt it a few days later I grabbed a pair of scissors from my desk and washed them then I cut all the burnt skin off and I put hydrogen peroxide on it and put band aids on it and over time it healed my parents did t know either of corse and the skin has grown back and u can't even tell the difference they both look the same. And back to the first story I had told my parents that my friends parents were their so they said it was fine I lied to them and got hurt ik I'm very ashamed of myself for lying but they were both my best friends so I did t wanna ruin are plans for the week but my head injury kinda ruined it thank god it's 2 days till Christmas break and it happend over the weekend so it won't bother me at school. So Shoud I tell my parents and get medical help. Or just relax and wait for it to heal just like I did the burn?

[scouttroop]

a 2 car head on a on scen r n had one cwp and was on site first not much i could do but she waned me to take over and all my first aid that a big no no if you switch and there more going on then you can see best to not move them to much tell emt get there but it work out the driver 2 walking a round and out of it if she was mad at me for not switch with her sorry in a head and neck injury only hand off to the emt she had the driver 1 neck head you do more harm by moveing them one more sorry

[ProfessorLoopy]

FIRST VIEW AND COMMENT! eh who cares now-a-days?