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
