Wounds
Lacerations
Abrasions
Burns
Sunburn
Overheating
Hyperthermia
Blisters
Headache
Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS)
Muscular Cramps

BASIC FIRST AID

HYPOTHERMIA – a lowering of the body’s inner core temperature.a lowering of the body’s inner core temperature.There are three classes of hypothermia:chronic, acute, subacute. To understand hypothermia it is useful to review some basic concepts of how the body can gain or lose heat.

Body heat gain
Body heat loss
Body heat loss – The body loses heat in five ways:

Respiration
Evaporation
Conduction
Radiation
Convection

Treatment

Treatment – There are four lines of defence against hypothermia:

Avoidance of Exposure
Termination of Exposure
Early Detection
Immediate Treatment