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Emergency, or not?
Badge 6 of 7 · First Aid
Lesson 1 of 5 · Step 34 of 43 in the course
Watch, then decide. The next step only opens when you have it right.
Step 1 of 4
Step 1 of 4
Three answers, and knowing which is which
- You handle it. You call a parent. You call 911.
- Knowing which is which is most of first aid at your age.
- Not sure counts as a reason to call.
Watch, then answer this
You are not sure which of the three it is. What does that mean?
Step 2 of 4
Call 911 straight away for
- Somebody unconscious — it can mean the brain is not getting oxygen.
- Chest pain in an adult — it can be a heart attack.
- A suspected head, neck or back injury — moving somebody can make it much worse, so you do not move them and you do call.
- Not breathing or struggling to breathe, poisoning, a burn covering more than one part of the body or charred or blistered skin, and bleeding that will not stop.
Watch, then answer this
Somebody has fallen and may have hurt their neck. What do you not do?
Watch what happens
Then go back and pick again.
Step 3 of 4
Call a parent for
- Cuts and scrapes, a bump with no other signs, feeling sick, something broken.
- Anything you are not sure about.
- Not sure counts as a reason to call.
Watch, then answer this
A cut that is bleeding but stops when you press on it. Who do you call?
Step 4 of 4
Carbon monoxide
- No smell, no color, no taste.
- Headache, feeling sick and sleepy — in more than one person in the house, with no other explanation.
- Get everybody outside and call 911.
- A detector is the only thing that will warn you.
Watch, then answer this
What makes carbon monoxide different from every other hazard in this course?
That is this lesson.
You watched it, you made the call yourself, and you got it right. That is the whole lesson — nothing here was read to pass.
Now do it
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Watching is not the same as being able to do it. Stand up and work through these. Nothing here is marked and nothing is sent anywhere — the ticks are yours.
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Read what happens in each clip instead
Step 1 — When to call. Brandon with a phone, three outcomes cut together: dealing with it himself, calling a parent, calling 911. Same room, same phone, three different situations.
Step 2 — The list. Neutral clay-model figures, deliberately faceless and non-graphic: somebody lying still while a child stays back and does not move them, a hand to the centre of the chest, a hand at the throat, then a phone. Diagrammatic on purpose — this is the one list where a realistic depiction would be wrong.
Step 3 — The everyday ones. A scraped knee, a bumped head with no other signs, feeling sick. A phone call, a calm parent, a plan. Ordinary and undramatic on purpose.
Step 4 — No smell, no color, no taste. A detector on a wall, then two people in the same house with a headache, both sleepy. Everybody outside, then a 911 call from the sidewalk. The film must make clear there is nothing to see or smell.
Every film on this page is narrated and carries a caption track, supplied as a sidecar and never burned into the picture.