All emergency cards

First aid essentials

If anyone is in danger, call for help first. UAE numbers:

What to do now

  • Heavy bleeding: press firmly on the wound with any cloth you have.
  • Call emergency services, or ask someone nearby to call, and keep pressing until help arrives.
  • If an object is stuck in a wound, leave it in and press around it.
  • If they seem pale, cold or dizzy, lay them down, raise their feet and keep them warm.
  • Unresponsive but breathing: tilt the head back, turn them on their side and call for help.
  • Unresponsive and not breathing: call for help, then push hard on the centre of the chest.
  • If a defibrillator is available, switch it on and follow its spoken instructions.
  • Treat noisy, irregular or gasping breathing as not breathing.

Full guide and sources

UAE numbers source: u.ae. Steps summarised from official sources listed on the full guide.

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