Now, the citizenAID
app is absolute must for everybody to download onto their phone. You can
download it onto iPhones or onto Android systems. So what we are going to do in
this film is have a look at the citizenAID app and see the sorts of things it can do.
And when you first logon to the app, you go on to the start page and just hit the Start
button. And once you go on from there, you are given a list of options. So the first thing we
recommend you do is you just work through this when there is not a problem. So have
a look through and you can start to understand the priority process you need to go through and
how to deal with different incidents that you may come across. Now, if you had a situation where it
is an absolute emergency and you were needing this, one of the first things it tells you to
do is Silence your phone. So what you do not want to do, is you are looking at your phone,
dealing with something and then your phone goes off. This is going to draw attention to you,
if there is a threat, for example, a gunman or any other situation that could cause you threat.
So looking down the list here, we have got quite a few things. Now this app is based on
the citizenAID Pocket Guide. So the Pocket Guide is a paper section that opens up and
this is an app version of it, it is completely free to download. So as you see that down here,
we have got a Knife attacker, Active shooter, Vehicle Attack, Explosion, Acid Burns,
Unattended Item, Suspicious Item, then we go on to Treatment and also Preparation & Learn. So, lots
of information on here. So we will just look at the first one, so this would be a Knife Attacker.
So if we hit the button for Knife Attacker, it straight away goes off,
immediately tells you to mute your phone. So you can do that. Then just hit the Next button. Then,
it has got a nice, simple, easy, process you can work through. And the first thing is,
calling for help. So, number one, you just hit the button next to it, what do I say?
And it goes through the SLIDE pneumonic, it gives you an idea to actually help what you are going
to say to emergency service to make sure you get the right help. Then, if you hit the Go,
it then runs through a whole triage system so you can look through exactly what you need to do.
Now, when you are looking at the screen, it is quite small, some of the text, so you may well
want to just hit the Plus button. And what you can do then is extend the size and if you just run
your finger on the screen, you can work around. So if you normally wear reading-glasses, for example,
it is not a problem because you can just expand the screen. And if you hit the Minus button, it
goes straight back to where it was. Once you have done that, hit the Go button and it then goes onto
individual people. So for this example, are the breathing? Is it a severe bleed? Not responding?
So let us just go for Severe Bleeding. And then, nice, easy, picture-graphs, arrows to
tell you exactly what you need to do in order to deal with the situation. And at the end, you can
go through. If it is a limb, you can go on, it would tell you how to put on the tourniquet or
an improvised torniquet or commercial tourniquet. And then, you can just literally go on from there.
And it is literally just touch and you will go onto the next thing... Example. So the one here,
we are now on broken bones, for example. So if there was a situation where there was bone broken.
If you hit the Home button, it goes back to the Options. So there is lots on there.
There is things like Acid Burns, it tells you what to do. Unattended
Items, Active Shooters... An Active Shooter, it might be slightly different. Again, reminds you
to just put the phone on Silenced. And again, it just goes through what you need to do, right over
to how to treat people... And obviously, the main thing is keeping yourself safe.
What we recommend with this app is to download it onto your phone, first have a look through it,
see exactly what it does and then, if you ever needed to use it in an emergency, you can do. Now,
this is aimed at lots of terror incidences and things like that, but the module on Knife crime,
for example, or any of these other things, it will still tell you what to do with first aid. So even
if you are just using it for sudden cardiac arrest in the workplace, or if you are using it for a
machinery cut in the workplace or at home, then the app will still tell you exactly what to do.
And finally, if you scan the QR code with your mobile phone now,
you can download it straight from the Google PlayStore or directly from Apple and that will
put the app directly onto your phone. We have also put links in the download area of this course.