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(Circulation. 2005;112:III-115 – III-125.)
© 2005 American Heart Association, Inc.

Section 2

Part 10: First Aid

From the 2005 First Aid Science Advisory Board Evidence Evaluation Conference, hosted by the American Heart Association and the American Red Cross in Dallas, Texas, January 23–24, 2005.

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	Introduction

 
In 2004 the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American Red Cross (ARC) cofounded the National First Aid Science Advisory Board (Table) to review and evaluate the scientific literature on first aid. The goals of the National First Aid Science Advisory Board are to reduce morbidity and mortality due to emergency events and to analyze the scientific evidence that answers the following questions:

• What are the most common emergency conditions that lead to significant morbidity and mortality?
  
• In which of these emergency conditions can morbidity or mortality be reduced by the intervention of a first aid provider?
  
• How strong is the scientific evidence that interventions performed by a first aid provider are safe, effective, and feasible?
  

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Members of the National First Aid Science Advisory Board reviewed morbidity data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and first aid texts to identify common causes of injury and injury fatalities and selected the topics for evidence evaluation that are included in this section. The conflict of interest statements of the Board can be assessed through the website http://www.C2005.org. For further information about the evidence evaluation process, see Part 1: "Introduction." The information presented here represents a consensus summary of the scientific evidence relevant to common first aid interventions with consensus treatment recommendations.

Definition of First Aid
The National First Aid Science Advisory Board defined first aid as assessments and interventions that can be performed by a bystander (or by the patient/victim) with . . . [Full Text of this Article]