First Aid

Person was in an automobile accident. Person has nausea and pain in her abdomen and is extremely thirsty. She is breathing rapidly and her skin is pale and moist. She has

Internal bleeding

Friend collapses. She regains consciousness but having trouble speaking and one side of her face is drooping. She has?

Stroke

What sudden illness is usually caused by a blockage of blood flow to the brain?

Stroke

How do you care for a person with a possible head, neck, or spinal injury

Support the head in the position you find it do not try to align it

What don't you put on burns

ointment, butter, ice, don't break blisters

4 sources of burns

radiation, electrical, heat and chemical

When caring for a person who is actively bleeding from a wound you should?

Apply dirct pressure to the wound and then apply a pressure bandage

If an open wound continues to bleed after applying direct pressure

Add additional dressings and pressure, don't remove blood-soaked dressings, ensure that 911 has been called

what is the first step in caring for a wound with significant bleeding

Apply direct pressure with a sterile or clean dressing

When giving care to a person who has a injury to his chest, abdomen or pelvis what do you do first?

Call 911

Lady is having trouble breathing after you checked her you think she had a severe allergic reaction to a bee sting. you should?

Call 911 immediately and care for the person until EMS takes over

What is common signal for sudden illness

Changes in levels of consciousness, lose of blurred vision, and signals of shock

Person has a serious head, neck, or spinal injury one of his symptoms would be?

Changes levels of consciousness

A person is having a seizure it only lasts a few minutes they are awake but disoriented. How do you help the person now

Check for life-threatening conditions and for possible injury during the seizure while trying to provide some privacy for the person

A women burned her hand in the lunch room. You should

Cool the burn with running water, Cover burn with loosely dressing, and remove her from the burn.

The sudden illness results from too much or too little sugar in a person's blood

Diabetic emergency

In stroke recognition FAST means

Face, arm, speech and time

Care for a person with heat exhaustion

Get the person out of the heat and into a cooler place

How should you care for someone with minor frostbite on the fingers

Get the person to a warm environment and then rewarm his or her hands using skin to skin contact

Heat-related illnesses include

Heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke

what identifies the progression that heat-related illnesses can follow from least to severe

Heat cramps, heat exhaustion, heat stroke

You are giving care to a person in shock. What do you do?

Helping the person rest in the most comfortable position possible

The person might have ingested a poison and dont know how severe it is. what do you do first?

Locate the drug or product containers to give to the EMS

Third Degree burn

May destroy all layers of skin some underlying structures. Skin will look brown or charred. Can also destroy nerves

Which type of injury involves an open wound in which the bon has torn through the skin?

Open Fracture

Playing soccer and a kid falls and stretches his arm to break his fall. He gets up and is holding his left arm close to his body and complaining his shoulder hurts. What do you do?

Splint upper arm to prevent shoulder movement

When caring for a person who is having a seizure you should?

Remove nearby objects that might cause injury

General care for a muscle, bone or joint injury

Rest,Immoblize, Cold and Elevate

What do you use to remove a bee stinger for a persons skin?

Scape the skin with the edge of a plastic card

What is best to use to immobilize an ankle or foot injury

Soft splint

Second degree burn

Top layer of skin. Red with blisters, often will swell

First Degree burn

Top layer of skin. Skin is read and dry. area may swell.

Using manual stabilization you would place?

Your hands on both sides of the persons head then gently holding the person's head in the position found

types of open wounds

abrasion, laceration, avulsion, amputation, puncture/penetration, crushing injury

which is the first step you should take in caring for a person with burns?

check to see if the scene is safe

A person has sustained a chemical burn to his right eye. what do you do?

flush his right eye with water for at least 20 mins