CHOCKING A foreign object that is stuck at the back of the throat causing Chocking Sign & Symptoms: > Difficulty in breathing and speaking. > Congested face initially. > Grey blue skin (Cyanosis ) later. > Distressed signs from the casualty, who may point to the throat, or grapes the neck. YOUR AIMS ARE :  > To remove the obstruction and so restore normal breathing. > To arrange urgent removal to hospital if necessary. TREATMENT: (FOR CONSCIOCS PERSON ) Ask the casualty to cough, if cannot cough, do not ask to do so. Bend the casualty well forward at the west and give up to five sharp slaps between the shoulder blades with the flat of your hand. IT back slaps fail. try up to five abdominal thrust ( Hemlich's manoeuvre ). Continue alternating back slaps and abdominal thrust. TREATMENT: (FOR UNCONSCIOUS PERSON ) > Asses the casualty following the ABC of resuscitation. > Turn the casualty on to his side and give up to five sharp slaps with. lat of yo...

Know how to deal with emergency situations such as Drowning, Electric Shock, General Shock, Automobile Accidents and Human Being caught in fire. DROWNING Drowning causes asphyxia by water, weeds and mud entering into the lungs.  When the lungs  alveoli are filled with water, they cannot exchange oxygen to and from the blood    W HAT DO I SEE AND ENQUIRE ?
A victim is in the water and is in distress. Following signs of drowning may be observed:     ?   no breathing;   ? difficulty in breathing and signs of restlessness;
    ? the rate of breathing increases;   ?   the breaths get shorter;
? the veins of the neck become swollen;
? the face, lips, nails, fingers and toes turn blue;
    ? the pulse gets faster and feebler; and
? water may gush from the mouth. WHAT DO I DO? SAFETY FIRST AND CALL FOR HELP ? Make sure there is no danger to you of drowning. ? The person urge...

Here are some guidelines for utilising a GPS map app, using Google Maps as an example: Launch the Maps app on Google: On the home screen or app drawer of your smartphone, find the Google Maps app, then press to open it. Turn on location services: Give Google Maps permission to use the location services on your device when prompted. This guarantees that the application can locate you right now and provide you exact directions. Locate your destination by tapping the top search box and typing the name or address of the location you wish to go. Google Maps will recommend relevant sites as you type. When the right location shows up in the search results, tap on it. Decide where you want to go: Google Maps will show the location on the map when you tap on the destination from the search results. Check that the location is correct by reviewing it, and then tap on it again to make it the one you want. Select your path: Based on the flow of traffic at the time, Google Maps will determine the...

Estimation is "accurate guessing". As scouts go about they should hold contests in guessing the heights of tree, church or temple and verify by scouts staff checking as to who was nearest. This will give them good training contest in guessing the distance of the nearest till to other land marks and pacing it off to check the distance is also good training. Scouts should frequently indulge in self-imposed exercise of this kind if they are to become good at "Estimation". HOW TO FIND OUT THE HEIGHT OF A TREE Estimation is different from measuring. The method given below come under measuring. Several methods are available for measuring the height of a tree. These can be used with equal accuracy for the measuring heights of Towers, Tall Pillars and Gopurams. Inch to Foot Methods: From the foot of tree X and moving in a straight line measure 11 units and mark the spot. Next measure one more unit and mark the spot. Let the first spot be A and the second spot be B. At a pla...