# First Aid/What needs to be done?

Feel free to move things around as tasks get completed

## Fleshing-out

* First Aid/Critical Incident Stress & Victim Death
* First Aid/Wilderness First Aid
* First Aid/Chest & Abdominal Injuries#Abdominal Injuries
* First Aid/Appendix D: Notes for First Aid Instructors (this is low-priority)
* First Aid/Manual of Style
* First Aid/Marine First Aid
* First Aid/Poisoning#Injected Poisons
* First Aid/Non-Survivable Injuries

## Don't exist yet

* First Aid/Weapon-Induced Injuries

## Also

* Invite more people to contribute
* Expand First Aid/Appendix B: Behind the Scenes
* Use these templates to spruce up the book
* Use development stages to indicate which modules need expansion
* Please keep Sources up-to-date. If you use a source, put it there.
* All pages for first aid (i.e. not CPR or "concept" pages, but actual first aid content pages) need a common organization system:
** Introduction: (what it is, how it happens, what's going on physiologically)
** Recognition: Signs & Symptoms (including notes about how to differentiate it from other things with similar S&S)
** Treatment: (including treatment priorities and don'ts)

## Requested Input

These issues are currently being actively discussed, and we'd love to have your input:

### Talk:First Aid#Disclaimers

    Do we want to keep the disclaimers on First Aid? – Mike.lifeguard | 05:20, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
    Not kept – Mike.lifeguard | 22:06, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

### Wikibooks:Featured books/Nominations#First Aid (PDF)

    First Aid has been nominated for Featured Book status! – Mike.lifeguard | 05:20, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

### Talk:First Aid/Life-Threatening Medical Emergencies#Deletion of module

    Whether to keep the Life-Threatening Medical Emergencies module or not
    Not kept – Mike.lifeguard | 23:39, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

### Talk:First Aid/Oxygen Administration#Proposal for deletion

    Whether to keep the oxygen admin module or not
    Kept – Mike.lifeguard | 23:39, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

### Talk:First Aid/Emergency First Aid & Initial Action Steps#AVPU or ALVPU

    Whether to keep the 4-point scale, or move to a 5-point scale
    4-pt scale seems standard – Mike.lifeguard | 23:39, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

### Talk:First Aid#Proposal

    A proposal to re-organize the BLS chapter to match First Aid/CPR summary

### Talk:First Aid#Emergency Childbirth

    Whether we want to include it at all, and if so, where?
    Not included; content remains on the talk page for future use elsewhere – Mike.lifeguard | 23:39, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

### Talk:First Aid/Emergency First Aid & Initial Action Steps#BLS Chapter

    Where AEDs fit into this book: BLS or advanced skill?
    AED use is an advanced skill; Basic AED knowledge is included throughout – Mike.lifeguard | 23:39, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

### Talk:First Aid/Emergency First Aid & Initial Action Steps#Ambulance before Airway - Disagree

    Call EMS first, or open airway and check breathing, then call EMS?

### Talk:First Aid/Emergency First Aid & Initial Action Steps#AAA vs GO DR SHAVPU

    Which, if any mnemonic should be used? Perhaps using AAA as a structural organization and GODRSHAVPU as a mnemonic would be best?
    This was done – Mike.lifeguard | 23:39, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

### Talk:First Aid/B for Breathing#ILCOR/AHA only, or include regional standards?

    What does ILCOR actually say about when to call EMS, AED's role in BLS and the number of initial rescue breaths?

### Talk:First Aid/C for Compressions#I believe

    AEDs again
    see above – Mike.lifeguard | 23:39, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

### Talk:First Aid/Extended Assessment#Keep the Article?

    Whether to keep the extended assessment module
    Kept – Mike.lifeguard | 23:39, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

### Talk:First Aid#Victims, patients, casualties

    We reached consensus on this one, and I already made the changes.
    We're using victim for everything except in Advanced Topics, where we'll have the option of using patient. – Mike.lifeguard | 02:09, 16 July 2007 (UTC)