page_title: Survival skills
section_title: First aid
hierarchical_section_title: Survival skills / First aid
caption_attribution_description: English: First aid 070
context_page_description: Survival skills are techniques that a person may use in order to sustain life in any type of natural environment or built environment. These techniques are meant to provide basic necessities for human life which include water, food, and shelter. The skills also support proper knowledge and interactions with animals and plants to promote the sustaining of life over a period of time. Survival skills are often associated with the need to survive in a disaster situation. Survival skills are often basic ideas and abilities that ancients invented and used themselves for thousands of years. Outdoor activities such as hiking, backpacking, horseback riding, fishing, and hunting all require basic wilderness survival skills, especially in handling emergency situations. Bushcraft and primitive living are most often self-implemented, but require many of the same skills.
context_section_description: First aid (wilderness first aid in particular) can help a person survive and function with injuries and illnesses that would otherwise kill or incapacitate him/her. Common and dangerous injuries include:
  Bites from snakes, spiders and other wild animals
  Bone fractures
  Burns
  Drowsiness
  Headache
  Heart attack
  Hemorrhage
  Hypothermia and hyperthermia
  Infection through food, animal contact, or drinking non-potable water
  Poisoning from consumption of, or contact with, poisonous plants or poisonous fungi
  Sprains, particularly of the ankle
  Vomiting
  Wounds, which may become infected
  The survivor may need to apply the contents of a first aid kit or, if possessing the required knowledge, naturally occurring medicinal plants, immobilize injured limbs, or even transport incapacitated comrades.
caption: A first aid kit containing equipment to treat common injuries and illness
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