Item Name: First Aid 1920 - 1933

Item ID: FirAid-AT2

Collector Rating: 1

Pamphlets Used to Earn this Badge

Requirements October 1914 until May 1925.

1. Be able to tell what to do with an apparently drowned person, and demonstrate the Sylvester and Schaefer methods of artificial respiration.

2. Show how to apply bandages to the head, ankle, and hand.

 

Requirements August 1925 until April 1930

1. Tell what to do with an apparently drowned person, and demonstrate the Schaefer methods of artificial respiration.

2. Show how to apply bandages to the head, ankle, and hand.

3. Show how to apply a tourniquet to stop arterial hemorrhage at any point:

(a) on the upper extremity below armpit;
(b) on lower extremity below hip joint.

4. Demonstrate how to arrest venous hemorrhage on any part of the body.

5. Show how to apply a gauze dressing to a wound so that it will not be contaminated - that is, do it in an aseptic manner.

6. Show how to support by splints, etc., a broken arm or a broken leg so that the patient can bear transportation.

7. Explain what to do for the bite of a mad dog, a venomous snake, a mosquito, and a scorpion sting.

8. Show how to rescue an individual from contact with an electric wire.

9. Produce satisfactory evidence that he has taken advantage of every opportunity to put into actual practice his knowledge of first-aid work during a period of at least six months since becoming a first class scout. (Badge-green cross on red ground.)

 

Requirements March 1931 until September 1935

1. Tell what to do with an apparently drowned person, and demonstrate the prone pressure method of artificial respiration.

2. Show how to apply bandages to the head, ankle, and hand.

3. Show how to apply a tourniquet to stop arterial hemorrhage at any point:

(a) on the upper extremity below armpit;
(b) on lower extremity below hip joint.

4. Demonstrate how to arrest venous hemorrhage on any part of the body.

5. Show how to apply a gauze dressing to a wound so that it will not be contaminated - that is, do it in an aseptic manner.

6. Show how to support by splints, etc., a broken arm or a broken leg so that the patient can bear transportation.

7. Explain what to do for the bite of a mad dog, a venomous snake, a mosquito, and a scorpion sting.

8. Show how to rescue an individual from contact with an electric wire.

9. Produce satisfactory evidence that he has taken advantage of every opportunity to put into actual practice his knowledge of first-aid work during a period of at least six months since becoming a first class scout. (Badge-green cross on red ground.)

 

3. Show how to apply a tourniquet to stop arterial hemorrhage at any point:

(a) on the upper extremity below armpit;
(b) on lower extremity below hip joint.

4. Demonstrate how to arrest venous hemorrhage on any part of the body.

5. Show how to apply a gauze dressing to a wound so that it will not be contaminated - that is, do it in an aseptic manner.

6. Show how to support by splints, etc., a broken arm or a broken leg so that the patient can bear transportation.

7. Be able to explain what to do for the bite of a mad dog, a venomous snake, a mosquito, and a scorpion sting.

8. Show how to rescue an individual from contact with an electric wire.

9. Produce satisfactory evidence that he has taken advantage of every opportunity to put into actual practice his knowledge of first-aid work during a period of at least six months since becoming a first class scout.