In attending an injured person:
1. Keep the injured person lying down in a comfortable position, his head level with his body, until you know whether the injury is serious.
2. Look for hemorrhage, stoppage of breathing, poisoning, wounds, burns, fractures, and dislocations. Be sure you locate every injury. Remove enough clothing to determine the extent of the injury. Rip the seams if necessary. Attempts to remove the clothes in the usual manner may cause unnecessary suffering or may aggravate injury. Serious bleeding, stoppage of breathing, and poisoning must be treated immediately before anything else is done.
3. Send someone to call a physician or an ambulance.
4. Keep calm and do not be hurried into moving an injured person I unless absolutely necessary.
5. Never give water or other liquid to an unconscious person.
6. Keep onlookers away from the injured.
7. Make the patient comfortable and keep him cheerful, if possible.
8. Don't let the patient see his own injury.
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