First aid and medical

This section will give you information on medicines and poisons, as well as how to respond to medical and first aid situations in and around your home.

• Biting midges
• Burns first aid
• Button batteries
• DRSABCD action plan
• Drugs of dependence
• Emergency and crisis
• Essential oils – Health warning
• Eye injury – corneal flash burns
• Eye injury – foreign object in the eye
• First aid for a choking adult or child over 1
• First aid for a choking infant under 1
• First aid for bites and stings
• First aid for eye injuries
• First aid for fire ant stings
• First aid for fractures and dislocations
• First aid for heat stroke
• First aid for shock
• First aid for spinal injury
• First aid for sprains and strains
• GPs
• Health care options
• How is the cost of medicines to consumers determined?
• Information collected by the Medicines and Poisons Regulation Branch of the Department of Health
• Managing health conditions during cyclone season
• Managing your child’s anaphylaxis at school or child care
• March flies
• Medicines and poisons
• Mercury exposure
• Opioid pharmacotherapy in the community
• Pharmacy
• Poisoning – first aid
• Prevent poisoning in the home
• Reporting side effects after immunisation
• Self-care
• Stimulant medicines
• Treating needlestick injuries
• Wounds first aid
• Vaccination safety