First aid is defined as the immediate care given to an acutely injured or ill person. It can literally be life-saving so it behooves all of us to know some basic principles. What follows are some ...

In an emergency, anyone is capable of becoming a first responder. Learning CPR and other first aid skills is important because one never knows when an emergency will strike.

The principles of physical first aid and mental health first aid are similar: Support a person in need, neither curing them nor providing them with professional advice or treatment but instead ...