First Aid vs. Not First Aid

If injury or illness involves:

If injury or illness involves:

• Loss of consciousness (regardless of medical/first aid treatment).

• Restriction of work or motion (regardless of medical/first aid treatment). (caveat – see below).

• Transfer to another job (regardless of medical first aid treatment).

• Antiseptics applied on second or subsequent visit to a doctor or nurse.

• Burns of second or third degree.

• Compresses, hot or cold, on second or subsequent visit to a doctor or nurse.

• Cutting away dead skin (surgical debridement).

• Diathermy treatment (during second or subsequent visit).

• Foreign bodies, removal if embedded in eye.

• Foreign bodies, if removal from wound requires a physician because of depth of embedment, size or shape of object(s) or location of wound.

• Infection, treatment for.

• Use of prescription medications, (except for a single dose administered on first visit).

• Soaking, hot or cold, on second or subsequent visit.

• Sutures (stitches). Dermabond.

• Whirlpool treatment (during second or subsequent visit).

• X-ray which is positive.

• Admission to a hospital for treatment or prolonged observation.

• Rigid splint.

• Termination of employment (regardless of medical first aid treatment).

• Observation of injury on second or subsequent visit to a doctor or nurse.

• Antiseptics, application of, on first visit to a doctor or nurse.

• Bandaging on any visit to a doctor or nurse.

• Burns of first degree.

• Compresses, hot or cold, on first visit to a doctor or nurse only.

• Elastic bandage, use of, on first visit, to a doctor or nurse only.

• Foreign bodies, not embedded, irrigation of eye for removal.

• Foreign bodies, removal from wound by tweezers or other simple techniques.

• Non-prescription medications or doses of prescription medication on first visit for diagnostic treatment.

• Ointments applied to abrasions to prevent drying or cracking.

• Tetanus shots, initial or boosters alone.

• Hospitalization for observation only (no treatment other than first aid).

• Soaking therapy on initial visit or removal of bandages by soaking.

• Whirlpool therapy on first visit.

• Heat therapy on first visit.

• Steri-strips.

• X-ray which is negative.

• Non-rigid splint.