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The American Petroleum Institute's course in first aid training was prepared by the Safety Training Committee (now the Personnel Protection and Development Subcommittee) for employees of the petroleum industry and their families.

As outlined, the course requires 8 hours of training with emphasis on actual practice in the application of first aid measures.

To meet the industry's first aid requirements, the Institute's Committee on Safety and Fire Protection believes that only the fundamentals of training in the following six basic emergency measures are necessary:

1. Artificial respiration

2. Control of bleeding

3. Treatment for shock

4. Care of open wounds and burns

5. Care of dislocations and fractures

6. Transportation of the injured