Los Angeles Personal Injury Accident Scene First-Aid Information

In Los Angeles, there are multiple personal injury accidents each day.  These accidents may vary from fender-benders to multiple-vehicle accidents involving tanker trucks carrying hazardous materials.  There are also various types of Los Angeles accidents where you should be represented by an attorney to recover the maximum compensation for your injuries.  With these various types of accidents, it is essential that you be familiar with general first aid which may keep someone in a stable condition until medical help arrives.

If you were involved in a car accident in Los Angeles, California, either you or a passenger in your motor vehicle may have suffered serious injuries which would require medical attention.  While you are waiting for paramedics or other medical personnel to arrive at the scene of your accident, it is important that the injured person be in a stable condition so they can be transported.

While content provided on this and other pages is simply for informational purposes only, we recommend that everyone become certified in at least basic first aid.

Common Los Angeles Accident Scene Injuries

Common Los Angeles accident injuries include brain injuries, broken bones, cuts, lacerations, and spinal cord injuries.  Anyone who has sustained a traumatic injury should not be moved as this may cause even further injuries.  You should not remove a motorcycle rider's helmet after they are involved in a Los Angeles motorcycle accident as they may have neck injuries or brain injuries which could become worse when you are trying to remove their helmet.  The paramedics or doctors may have to cut the motorcycle helmet off.

Guarantee Your Safety at the Accident

Before assisting anyone else, you must first guarantee that the Los Angeles accident will not pose a threat to you.  You do this by making sure there are no further dangers at the accident.  Make sure nothing is burning, there are no liquids, including gasoline, leaking from any of the motor vehicles, traffic has slowed or stopped around the accident, turn off the ignitions, prevent anyone from lighting a cigarette

Call 911

Have a bystander to the Los Angeles Accident call 911, or call 911 yourself, put them on speaker phone, and put your phone in your pocket so you may begin assisting the injured people.  When speaking with 911, tell the Los Angeles operator of the exact location of the accident, how many people were involved, the extent of their injuries, how many people may need to be transported to a hospital, and whether there are any hazardous materials, such as leaking gasoline present.

By providing succinct and accurate information to the 911 operator, this will help guarantee that medical professionals can assist the injured people sooner by having this essential information.

Check Whether The Injured People Are Conscious

One may determine whether someone is conscious by speaking loudly while tapping them on their collarbone.  While you are doing this, ask them to open their eyes and to respond verbally to your questions.  If the accident victim is conscious, inform them that help is on the way.  To further assist in the treatment of this victim, you should relay any information you receive or hear to the 911 operator.

If the person in the Los Angeles accident is unconscious, you need to follow the ABCs.  It is important to check their AIRWAY so they can breathe.  Check to see if they are continuing to BREATHE.  Also check their blood CIRCULATION to see if their heart is beating.

Airway

Provided that the injured person doesn't have any head injuries, fractured bone, neck or back injuries, you can clear the injured person's airway.  You can do this by placing one hand on their forehead and gently tipping their head back.  Place two fingers under the unconscious person's chin and raise it up.  You can then check to see if the airway is obstructed.  If there is something obstructing the airway, sweep it out with your index and middle finger.

Breathing

You can easily determine whether anyone is breathing by:

• Using a Mirror and placing it near the injured person's mouth;
• Listening for air coming out of nose / mouth;
• Feeling breath coming out of nose / mouth by placing back of hand near mouth; and
• Looking for chest movement as they take a breath in or out.

Circulation

Some easy identifiers that the injured person has circulation is if they are breathing, moving or talking.  If the person fails to show any signs of circulation, then a properly trained individual should provide them with proper Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and / or rescue breaths and chest compressions.

It is important that only trained persons perform these life saving techniques because if they are done improperly or inaccurately, additional injuries may result - for which the person causing them would be held responsible.  Which is why there is no general duty to assist in Los Angeles, California unless there was a pre-existing duty and / or a self-imposed duty.

Contact a Los Angeles Accident Attorney

If a loved one has been seriously injured in a Los Angeles Accident our Attorneys are standing by to counsel them as to the next steps in recovering compensation for their injuries.

Call our Los Angeles accident lawyers today at 800-715-4489.