Oxygen first aid
Oxygen first aid kit showing a demand valve and a constant flow mask
Oxygen first aid or oxygen administration is a first aid treatment for many medical emergencies involving the organs of respiration and circulation such as heart attack, drowning, carbon monoxide poisoning, decompression illness, lung barotrauma and gas embolism.
The first aid treatment benefits the patient by increasing the supply of oxygen to the body and improving the delivery of oxygen to organss that may have been starved of oxygen during the medical crisis.
Oxygen is not be given to children or people suffering from certain lung conditions without proper medical supervision.