Definitions
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- noun Someone who can administer
first aid
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Examples
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Paramedics say that the gravest mistake a first-aider might make here is to act too hastily.
How to Administer First Aid to a Victim of Automobile Accident 2008
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But you could have done very little, first-aider or not, to help, and your first human instinct, having checked yourself over for missing limbs, hands, was to save yourself and let the professionals do their job.
Revenge & Forgiveness Rachel 2005
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Of course, she'd been the office first-aider since that course last year.
Chase the Morning Rohan, Michael Scott 1990
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Those in a stocked public fallout shelter would have available the basic medical kit stored there, and perhaps one or more shelter occupants might be a doctor, nurse, or trained first-aider.
In Time of Emergency A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters (1968) United States. Office of Civil Defense
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In a slum area, a volunteer first-aider dressed the wounds of a girl who had been trapped in rubble.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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In a slum area, a volunteer first-aider dressed the wounds of a girl who had been trapped in rubble.
BBC - Ouch 2010
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The keen first-aider raised the boy's leg to slow the bleeding, while another neighbour dialled 999.
EMSResponder.com: Top EMS News By Euan Stretch 2010
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A first-aider was called, then a doctor, then an ambulance.
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'I went down because someone called for a first-aider but when I got there the paramedics had already arrived.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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Am a little distracted as am working for my "secouriste" certificate today and tomorrow - this is a French government scheme and is a bit more than becoming a first-aider.
janestheone 2009
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