First Aid Study Guide

When would you move a person from a scene?

A vehicle collision in which one car is nose-down in a fast moving creek

How would you initially care for a suspected shoulder injury?

Allow the person to continue holding their arm close to their body

Signs and symptoms of a pelvic injury are the same as those for

An abdominal injury

Care for a victim who is bleeding externally includes

Apply direct pressure to the wound; apply a pressure bandage

First step in caring for a wound with significant bleeding is

Apply direct pressure with a sterile or clean dressing

Care for minor internal bleeding includes

Applying ice to the injured area to help reduce pain and swelling

A signal of shock

Apprehension

The first thing you should do in caring for a victim who has an injury to the chest, abdomen or pelvis is to

Call 911 or the local emergency number

A person suffering from hypothermia needs to be moved gently and rewarmed gradually because failing to do so can

Cause dangerous heart rhythms

Common signal of sudden illness

Changes in level of consciousness, loss of vision or blurred vision, signals of shock

First step in caring for a victim with burns

Check to see if the scene is safe

Care for a person experiencing insulin shock or a victim in a diabetic coma inclides

Checking and caring for life threatening conditions

Could be a signal of heat exhaustion

Cool, moist, pale, ashen or flushed skin

If an open wound continues to bleed after applying direct pressure

Ensure that 911 has been called; add additional dressing and continue to apply direct pressure; do not remove any blood soaked dressings

It is important to control severe bleeding from any child because

Even a small amount of blood loss may be serious because of the size of the child

FAST in stroke recognition means

Face, arm, speech, time

Care for a chemical burn to the eye inckudes

Flush the eye with running water for at least 20 minutes

A joint is

Formed by the ends of two or more bones coming together

Care for a person with heat exhaustion includes

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

Care for someone with minor frostbite on the fingers includes

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

Care for a person with a nosebleed includes

Having the person lean forward and press on both sides of their nose

Identifies the progression that heat related illnesses can follow from least to most severe

Heat cramps, heat exhaustion, heat stroke

Heat cramps, heat exhaustion and heat stroke

Heat related illnesses

General care for shock may include

Helping the victim rest as comfortably as possible

Best used to immobilize a person with a suspected head neck or back injury who is face up in calm shallow water

Hip and shoulder support

Best location to place a child up to one year of age to check for any signs or symptoms of illness or injury

In a parents or caregivers lap or arms

Care for a possible heart attack victim includes

Keeping the person calm and call 911

General guidelines for caring for someone with a sudden illness include

Keeping the person from getting chilled or overheated

Easiest way to prevent the accidental misuse of a medicinal substance is to

Read the product information and use it only as directed

A signal of a mild reaction to a bite or sting

Redness at the entry site

When caring for a person who is having a seizure:

Remove nearby objects that might cause injury

To treat a burn:

Remove person from the source of the burn, cool the burn with large amounts of fresh running water, cover the burn loosely with a dry, sterile dressing

General care for a muscle, bone or joint injury includes:

Rest, Immobilize, Cold and Elevate

How should you remove a bee stinger embedded in a persons skin?

Scrape the stinger away from the skin with the edge of a plastic card

Changes in the level of consciousness

Signal that a person has experienced a serious head, neck or spinal injury

Best to use to immobilize an ankle or foot injury

Soft splint

Diabetic emergency

Sudden illness resulting from too much or too little sugar in a persons blood

Stroke

Sudden illness usually caused by a blockage of blood flow to the brain

Proper order for applying a rigid splint to an injured wrist that is not bleeding

Support the injured part in the position in which you find it; check for feeling, warmth and color; place the rigid splint under the injured area and the bones that are above and below the injury; secure the splint; recheck for warmth, feeling and color.

An epinephrine auto injector needs to stay in place for 10 seconds to allow -

The medication to fully empty

The 4 ways that a poison can enter a persons body are

Through the lungs, by being swallowed, through the skin, or by being injected

Support victims head and spine when moving victim

To prevent movement in case of a head or spine injury

Open fracture

Type of injury that involves an open wound in which the bone has torn through the skin

The best way to remove an embedded tick from the skin?

Use fine tipped, pointed tweezers pulling firmly upward as close as possible to the skin

Do not elevate an injury if

You suspect a fracture or dislocation