1. Place the victim face down, as shown in figure14-19, view A. Kneel on one knee at the head,facing the victim. Pass your hands under thearmpits.2. Raise the victim, as shown in figure 14-19, viewB. Take a better hold across the back.3. Raise the victim to a standing position and stickyour right leg between the victim’s legs, asshown in figure 14-19, view C. Grasp thevictim’s right wrist in your left hand and swingthe arm around the back of your neck and downyour left shoulder.4. Stoop quickly and pull the victim across yourshoulders and, at the same time, put your rightarm between the victim’s legs, as shown infigure 14-19, view D.5. Grasp the victim’s right wrist with your righthand and straighten up, as shown in figure14-19, view E.The procedure for lowering the victim to the deck isshown in figure 14-19, views F and G.TIED-HANDS CRAWLThe tied-hands crawl shown in figure 14-20 may beused to drag an unconscious person for a short distance;it is particularly useful when you must crawl underneatha low structure.RESCUE FROM ELECTRICAL CONTACTRescuing a person who has received an electricshock is likely to be difficult and dangerous. Useextreme caution or the rescuer may also be electrocuted.Don’t touch the victim’s body, the wire, or anyother object that may be conducting electricity.Some procedures you might use to rescue a personwho’s received an electric shock are as follows:Look for the switch first of all, and if you find it,turn off the current immediately. Don’t waste toomuch time hunting for the switch; however,every second is important.If you cannot find the switch, you should try toremove the wire from the victim with a drybroom handle, branch, pole, oar, board, orsimilar nonconducting object (fig. 14-21).It may be possible to use dry rope or dry clothingto pull the wire away from the victim.You can also break the contact by cutting the wirewith a wooden-handled axe, but that is extremelydangerous because the cut ends of the wire arelikely to curl and lash back at you before youhave time to get out of the way.When you are trying to break an electricalcontact, always stand on some nonconductingmaterial, such as a dry board, newspaper, orclothing.Administer artificial ventilation immediately afterfreeing the person from the wire if the electric shockcaused breathing to stop. Check the victim’s pulse,since electric shock may also cause the heart to stop. If14-26Figure 14-20.—Tied-hands crawl.Figure 14-21.—Pushing a victim away from a power line.Student Notes:
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