First aid essentials
If anyone is in danger, call for help first. UAE numbers:
What to do now
- Heavy bleeding: press firmly on the wound with any cloth you have.
- Call emergency services, or ask someone nearby to call, and keep pressing until help arrives.
- If an object is stuck in a wound, leave it in and press around it.
- If they seem pale, cold or dizzy, lay them down, raise their feet and keep them warm.
- Unresponsive but breathing: tilt the head back, turn them on their side and call for help.
- Unresponsive and not breathing: call for help, then push hard on the centre of the chest.
- If a defibrillator is available, switch it on and follow its spoken instructions.
- Treat noisy, irregular or gasping breathing as not breathing.
UAE numbers source: u.ae. Steps summarised from official sources listed on the full guide.