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(T/F) Giving first aid is the most important thing.
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What are the three steps in an emergency:
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Check
Call Care |
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What do you CHECK in an emergency?
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The Scene and the victim
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Why do you check a scene?
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To see if it is safe to enter.
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For an unconscious victim, how do you know its ok to act?
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Assumed consent.
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When a child has a moist face, pales skin, and deep laceration (a cut), what should you do?
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Call 911
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Best way to tell if a victim is conscious:
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Tap their shoulder, while asking if they are ok.
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When checking a victim, what is the first thing that you should do?
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check if the victim is conscious
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When a victim is unconscious, how do you check for signals of breathing?
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Look, listen, and feel for 5 seconds.
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Best way to avoid disease transmission:
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Use equipment, such as gloves.
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Find a child in a non-life threatening situation, what do you do to check them?
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First observe, then check from toe up.
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Face-up victim
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Perform head tilt chin lift.
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To get consent to a conscious victim, what do you have to tell them?
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Who you are
Level of training What you want to do |
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What do you give a victim not breathing with signs of circulation
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Rescue breathing
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How can Bystanders help
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Can help victim care and also tell about accident or victim.
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Why do you tilt the head and chin
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Opens victim's airway
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Give child care for 1 min. and then call 911 or a local emergency number
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Call Fast, and only in scene of an accident.
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Why are you not supposed to move a victim from the scene of the accident?
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You can further injure them.
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This is NOT a barrier to give action.
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Feeling confident in first aid training
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The represents a life-threatening condition
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Conscious Victim with persistent chest pains
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What do you do for an adult victim who throws up?
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Put him/her on their side and take their top leg and put over.
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When an adult victim coughs forcefully, what should you look for?
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See if their chest clearly rises and falls.
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CPR adult compressions
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2 hands on lower half of sternum
15 compressions for every 2 breaths. |
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Chest compression rate, adult
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ABOUT 100 per minute
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Checking signs of circulation for an adult
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After 1st minute, then every few minutes there after.
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When heart starts beating for during CPR what do you don next...
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Check breathing, and if not, do rescue breathing.
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In Cardiac Chain of Survival, when breathing stops, cells of brain are stil living so you need to do CPR early because the...
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Chest compressions circulate the oxygen blood to the body.
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Continue CPR until
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You are too exhausted
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Rate of rescue breaths for a child
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20 per minute
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Why do slow breaths for a victim
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Reduces Gastric dissention,
which is when air gets in the stoach and not the lungs. |
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When heart starts beating for during CPR what do you don next...
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Check breathing, and if not, do rescue breathing.
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In Cardiac Chain of Survival, when breathing stops, cells of brain are stil living so you need to do CPR early because the...
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Chest compressions circulate the oxygen blood to the body.
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Continue CPR until
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You are too exhausted
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Rate of rescue breaths for a child
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20 per minute
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Why do slow breaths for a victim
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Reduces Gastric dissention,
which is when air gets in the stoach and not the lungs. |
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You are alone with a choking child, what do you do?
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Perform abdominal thrusts until they stop choking or become unconscious
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An unconscious choking child should 1st be..
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lowered to the ground and then have someone call 911
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Do children suffer from cardiac or respiratory emergencies
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Respiratory
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CPR compressions for a child
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Use heal of 1 hand
5 compressions in 3 seconds |
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Rate of compressions to breaths
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5 compressions to 1 breath
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Call First/Call Fast
Child with no signs of circulation and you are alone |
1 min of care and then call 911
(Call fast) |
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Sign of respiratory distress in an infant
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Wheezing at a high pitched sound.
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Giving rescue breaths for an infant
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1 breath every 3 seconds
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When infant needs CPR
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No breathing and no signs of circulation
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Position head for an infant in CPR
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Lower than chest if choking and conscious
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CPR compressions for an infant
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Compress straight down half inch to an inch
5 compressions to 1 breath |
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When an infant is choking
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give 5 back lows and 5 chest thrusts
Atleast 100 per minuteUse pad of 2 fingers |
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External bleeding
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apply direct pressure
elevate wound apply pressure bandage Compress artery or pressure point |
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Friend collapses and half their face is paralyzed, what is it?
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A stroke
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automobile accident, vicim has a rapid weak pulse and abdominal pain
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internal bleeding
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How to care for a minor internal pain
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apply ice to the injury
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help care for shock
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help rest in a comfortable position
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1st step in caring for a victim with burns
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check scene to make sure it is safe
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chemical burn to the eye
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flush eye with cool running water
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if sprained knee, where put splint?
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apply splint to above and below the knee injury
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arm or shoulder pain
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let them hold arm in most comfortable position
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apply rigid splint area that is not bleeding
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Leave position where found
check feeling warmth color support bones above and below injury check again for warmth and color |
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immobolize foot or ankle injury
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use soft splint (pillow)
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a signal for a head, neck or back injury
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change level of consciousness
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in life immobolization
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resistance to movement, so you stop what you are doing right away
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Immobolization
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place hands on side of victims head and position in line of body
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injury to chest, abdomen, and pelvis, what do you first do?
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Call 911
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(Some one had a seizure in a mall and wakes, etc.) Seizure and then wakes and is disoriented, what do you do?
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Check if life-threatening conditions and then check if victim was injured during the seizure
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If poisoned
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call 911 or poison center
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Signal of mild bite, bee sting
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redness at entry area
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Removing bee stinger
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scrape away from skin
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removing a tick
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with a gloved hand, use tweezers and pull away from skin
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substance abuse
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same as victim of poisoning
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heat exhaustion
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ashen skin, pale skin
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for someone who is frost bite
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never rub area, it can further cause damage
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Those who are suffering hypothermia, try not to warm to quickly because
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it can cause rapid and dangerous heart rhythms
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Face-up in water
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hip shoulder support
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external breathing care and the bleeding continues
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apply additional dressing and then use a pressure point
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1st step for elderly who has high pressure, best thing to do for them:
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remove them from a hot environment
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respiratory arrest
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a condition in which breathing has stopped
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respiratory distress
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a condition in which breathing is difficult
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Life-threatening emergency
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an illness or injury that impairs a victim's ability to circulate oxygenated blood to all the parts of his or her body
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non-life-threatening emergency
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a situation that does not have an immediate impact on a victim's ability to circulate oxgenated blood, but still requires medical attention.
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Cardiac emergency
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sudden illness involving the heart
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Cardiac arrest
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a condition in which the heart has stopped or beats too ineffectively to generate a pulse
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Circulatory system
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a group of organs and other structures that carries oxygen-rich blood and other nutrients throughout the body, removes wastes and returns oxygen-poor blood to the lungs.
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