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    Lesson 3: Maintaining A Healthy and Safe Environment

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    This document provides information on maintaining health and safety. It discusses common physical hazards of old age like diseases, malnutrition, and dental disorders. It also covers giving first aid to those with infectious diseases like hepatitis B or HIV and evaluating vital signs and physical condition. Additionally, it describes external and internal bleeding, including different types of external bleeding. It briefly discusses heart attack as reduced blood supply to heart muscle and stroke as reduced blood supply to the brain.

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    This document provides information on maintaining health and safety. It discusses common physical hazards of old age like diseases, malnutrition, and dental disorders. It also covers giving first aid to those with infectious diseases like hepatitis B or HIV and evaluating vital signs and physical condition. Additionally, it describes external and internal bleeding, including different types of external bleeding. It briefly discusses heart attack as reduced blood supply to heart muscle and stroke as reduced blood supply to the brain.

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    Lesson 3: Maintaining A Healthy and Safe Environment

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    Mary Jane Blanco Fio
    This document provides information on maintaining health and safety. It discusses common physical hazards of old age like diseases, malnutrition, and dental disorders. It also covers giving first aid to those with infectious diseases like hepatitis B or HIV and evaluating vital signs and physical condition. Additionally, it describes external and internal bleeding, including different types of external bleeding. It briefly discusses heart attack as reduced blood supply to heart muscle and stroke as reduced blood supply to the brain.

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    LESSON 3

    Maintaining a Healthy and Safe


    Environment
    Common Physical Hazards
    Characteristics of Old Age
    1. Diseases and Physical Handicaps
    2. Malnutrition in old age is due more to
    physical than to economic causes.
    3. Dental disorders
    4. Accidents
    In giving first aid to a person with HBV (hepatitis B
    Virus) or with HIV (Human Immune deficiency Virus)
    use protective equipment whenever possible
    • Keep open wounds covered with dressing
    • Use disposable latex gloves
    • If disposable gloves are not available, use the
    most water proof material or extra gauge
    dressing
    • When doing rescue breathing, use a mouth-
    to-barrier device protection
    Checking the Victim’s Vital Signs and
    Evaluating His/Her Physical Condition
    • Primary survey for life-threatening conditions-
    primary survey finds and corrects life-
    threatening conditions.
    • Secondary survey for non-emergency
    conditions- this is dine after the primary
    survey is completed and attending to any life-
    threatening problems.
    External and Internal Bleeding
    • External bleeding- is when blood can be seen
    coming from an open wound
    Types of external bleeding can be
    classified according to the source
    • Arterial bleeding- blood spurts from the wound. This is
    the most serious because blood is being pumped out at
    a faster rate
    • Venous bleeding- blood flows or gushes. It is easier to
    control than arterial bleeding
    • Capillary bleeding- blood oozes from capillaries. This is
    the most common type and easier to control.
    a) Blood vessel spasm- arteries contain small amounts of
    muscle tissues in their walls
    b) Clotting- special elements (platelets) in the blood
    form a clot
    Heart attack
    • This happen when the blood supply to the
    part of the heart muscle it self is severely
    reduced or stopped.
    Stroke
    • It is a form of cardiovascular disease affecting
    the arteries of the brain.

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