What should be done, before calling 911, if we notice that someone has slipped and fell unconconscious in a bathroom or on stairs?

Check breath, check pulse. If you know how to, move him/her into recovery position. A person who is unconscious might vomit because his gullet muscles are paralyzed. Make sure, he/she can’t suffocate.

Attention: If you think, that the person fell onto an edge his/her back and may have broken their spine then do not move him/her into recovery position.

I hope this is a question for your homework and not a real emergency.

I don’t recommend EVER moving the body unless it is a life or death situation or CPR is required and they are not on a stable flat surface. most ppl are not well enough trained to tell if there is a neck or spinal injury and moving them could do more harm than good.

but yes if they start vomiting do put them on there side

If you have somebody unconscious and they vomit, they might suffocate. So not moving the person might also do harm.

A person who just drops to the ground after fainting will not usually break their bones. It’s something else of course, if a person has fallen down a stair or from a great height. Or after a car/motorcycle accident.

I can’t post a link here, but you might want to read… en(dot)wikipedia(dot)org/wiki/Recovery_position

you can, of course, also stay near the person and observe whether they can breathe feely. But if you’re the only one near and you have to leave in order to make an emergency call… it might be better to be alive and paralyzed that to be suffocated dead.

thats y I said life or death if they start vomiting that is life or death because they could suffocate. I am a certified First Responder as a Military Police Officer so while I appreciate it I don’t need your links. But I stand by don’t move the body unless they start vomiting, they are in an unsafe environment (fire, earthquake…), or the 911 dispatcher directs you to. and I still stress that the best thing to do is get qualified in basic First Aid and CPR.

and in those classes they teach not to move the body unless above situations exist.

if there breathing then there is no obstruction if there not breathing then you would go thru the steps to determine why there not breathing. yes the recovery position should be used if there is an obstruction and you can not clear it on your own. but all this is going back to what I originally said Don’t move the body unless it is life or death all the reasons for using the recovery position are life or death so I don’t understand your argument.