Secours à personne

English translation: assistance to persons

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French term or phrase:Secours à personne
English translation:assistance to persons
Entered by: joanna menda

21:58 Jul 12, 2019
French to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical (general) / Form
French term or phrase: Secours à personne
Hi,

I am translating a form from the Fire and Rescue Service and it's title is "Secours à Personne: Fiche Bilan des Premiers Soins"

How would you translate "secours à personne" in the US?

Thanks

Joanna
joanna menda
Canada
Local time: 19:43
assistance to persons
Explanation:
I think this is what they mean. See https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000140791...
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Marco Solinas
Local time: 16:43
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Summary of answers provided
3 +3assistance to persons
Marco Solinas
4 +1Rescuing Individuals
Katarina Peters
4Providing care to an ill or injured person
Eric Verdonck
3 +1first responder
katsy
3 +1Individual rescues
Rachel Fell
3To rescue someone
MM^^
3emergency assistance provided
Anais Devenish


Discussion entries: 5





  

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To rescue someone


Explanation:
Pour faire la différence avec to rescue somewhat.

MM^^
Local time: 01:43
Native speaker of: French
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assistance to persons


Explanation:
I think this is what they mean. See https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000140791...

Marco Solinas
Local time: 16:43
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in ItalianItalian
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard
6 hrs

agree  Ph_B (X): for a title
14 hrs

agree  Jennifer White
19 hrs
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Rescuing Individuals


Explanation:
if it's a title...

Katarina Peters
Canada
Local time: 19:43
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in HungarianHungarian, Native in EnglishEnglish
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agree  Ph_B (X)
13 hrs
  -> Thank you, PH_B!
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Providing care to an ill or injured person


Explanation:
I would translate it as:
Providing (or administering) Care to an Ill or Injured Person: List of First Aid Steps.

It's a bit longer but completes the concept well, imo :-)


    https://www.redcross.org/take-a-class/first-aid/performing-first-aid/first-aid-steps
Eric Verdonck
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch

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neutral  writeaway: too broad/general
7 hrs
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19 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
first responder


Explanation:
A possibliity I think.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_responder

First responders typically include paramedics, emergency medical technicians, police officers, firefighters, rescuers, and other trained members of organisations connected with this type of work.

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Note added at 19 hrs (2019-07-13 17:27:24 GMT)
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FWIW: I have just been considering the expression "first response" as the title of this form. I do actually think it would be OK, but I was a little disconcerted to see that Google reacts to that input with a whole load of ads for pregnancy tests... looks like it's a brand name too.


katsy
Local time: 01:43
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Michele Fauble
12 mins
  -> Thanks Michèle :-)

neutral  Jennifer White: no- a first responder is medical assistance. "Our community first responders (CFRs) respond to local emergency calls and provide life saving first aid/Yes, but a first responder would not be a fire engine, it would be a paramedic in the first instance.
34 mins
  -> I think you will find that first responders include other emergency professionals. Cf quote above, from the Wikipedia article/ I still do not understand your point. To repeat, a first responder can be a paramedic, a police officer, a firefighter, a doctor
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Individual rescues


Explanation:
The rewards recognised 527 individual rescues. Of these, 400 occurred in
England; 51 in Ireland; 11 in Scotland; 13 in India; and 33 in the Colonies. A
further 19 rescues took place in foreign countries, with either the rescuer or
casualty being British.

...
The medals to naval officers in particular were
frequently used to reward individual rescues - such as jumping overboard to the
assistance of a drowning seaman -
...
place little or no emphasis on
the gender of individual rescuers, concentrating instead on the technicalities of
the rescue itself.


https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/1145582.pdf

Lieutenant McGrath points out that nurses have not only saved seven lives in individual rescues of record but have participated successfully in two mass evacuations

https://www.fireengineering.com/articles/print/volume-112/is...


And these costs are not small change. At some juncture the cost of tracking costs and prorating them to individual rescues becomes a costly proposition in its own right.

https://www.trailspace.com/forums/backcountry/topics/138135....



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Note added at 22 hrs (2019-07-13 20:29:45 GMT)
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Amending my answer to "rescue case"

Rescuing the duty to rescue

Rescue cases can generate a moral duty to aid those in peril. ...
A primary reason why the demands of rescue can be so great is because poorly functioning or absent institutions cause rescue cases to proliferate.
If institutions were just and properly functioning, a great number of rescue cases would likely disappear

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6ca1/dc07567b19f3b10af2735c...

In this report, rescue cases in which fire fighters rescued injured occupants in a crash using rescue equipment were analyzed statistically. These cases were collected by some fire stations in the area.

Figure 8. Number of rescued occupant / case
(rescue case)

Collected 78 rescue cases
(rescued occupants:91 [fatality:11, injuries:80]

The fire fighters could easily rescue occupant
dummies in the rescue case of a car under-ride.

https://www-esv.nhtsa.dot.gov/Proceedings/22/files/22ESV-000...

Rachel Fell
United Kingdom
Local time: 00:43
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 157

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  writeaway
7 hrs
  -> Thank you writeaway :-)

neutral  Ph_B (X): Does this not sound like "each (individual) act" of rescue, instead of "individual" people (persons)?
12 hrs
  -> I have amended my answer on reflection.
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5 days   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
emergency assistance provided


Explanation:
OR: Assistance to individuals.

OR: ensure rescue.

Anais Devenish
Australia
Local time: 07:43
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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