Bronze Med Flashcards
Whats the primary assessment acronym and what does it stand for?
A-area check A- awareness check A- ambulance A- airway B- breathing C- circulation D- deadly bleeding
Whats the ladder approche?
Talk Throw Reach Wade Row Swim Tow Carry
What are the three things you’re looking for while doing an area check?
Hazards, clues, and bystander
What are the five stages of awareness?
- Conscious and responsive
- Semi-conscious
- Unconscious responsive to hearing
- Unconscious responsive to touch
- Unconscious unresponsive
How do you contact EMS?
Tell the bystander to call 911 and to say the awareness level, location, whether the victim is an adult or child, to get you a first aid kit and EMS, and lastly say “do you understand?”
What are the main entries?
Slip-in, stride jump, and head first dive
What are the three different types of removal? Explain
- Both rescuer and bystander cup their hand under the victims arm pit, then both lift and drag back the victim using their legs.
- Both rescuer and bystander cup their closest hand under the victims arm pit them place their free hand on the victims elbow pushing it towards the victims body as much as they can. Keep that position while lifting the victim
- The rescuer goes in the what and places the victim on their shoulders while the bystander hooks both their arm under both of the victims arm pit. Then rescuer pull up using the wall while the bystander pulls back and drags the victim back using their legs
What are the two different types of spinals?
Canadian and vice
What are the two maim spots to find someones pulse?
The neck right under the jaw bone and the back of the wrist
What’s finding the pulse on the neck called?
Carotid pulse check
Whats in a standard first aid kit?
Gloves , mask, goss, and scissors
What does CPR stand for?
C- cardio (heart)
P- pulmonary (lungs)
R- resuscitation (resserrent the victim)
What’s finding the pulse on the wrist called?
Radial pulse check
How do you treat shock?
- Maintenant body temp
- Check ABC’s
- Rest and reassure the victim
- Treat the cause of stress
- Recovery position (semi-sit or semi-prone)
Whats the treatment for Anaphylaxis?
- Use medication
- Check responsiveness
- Contact EMS
- Treat for shock
Asthma
- Get victim comfortable
- Use medication
- Loosen tight clothes around neck and chest
- Encourage victim to purse-lip breath
- Contact EMS if it gets worse
Hyperventilation
- Maintain responsiveness
- Encourage pursed-lip breathing
- Treat for shock
- Contact EMS it gets worse
Angina and heart attack
- Check level of consciousness
- Contact EMS
- Make victim comfortable
- Help victim take medication
- Loosen tight cloths around neck and chest
- Treat for shock
What are the two main differences between angina and a heart attack?
Angina can be treated with medication and people who have a heart attack usually deny they’re having a heart attack (main symptom)
External bleeding
- Position and pressure
- Treat for shock
- Contact EMS if gets worse
What does the 2 p’s stand for
Position (make victim lie down) and pressure (keep pressure on wound)
Head injuries
- Keep head and neck immobile
- Check level of consciousness and breathing
- Contact EMS
- Treat trauma
- Treat for shock
Spinal injuries
- Roll victim down
- Check level of consciousness and breathing
- Immobilizes neck and head
- Not trained
- Treat any trauma
- Contact EMS
- Treat shock
Injuries from embedded object
- Don’t remove object!!!!!
- Stabilize object and control bleeding
- Contact EMS
- Treat for shock
- Remove object if it’s superficial
Bites
- Control bleeding
- Seek medical assistance
- Treat for shock
Eye injury
- Treat for shock
- Dont remove object
- Flush eye with water
- Chemicals; flush for 15-20mins
- Contact EMS if gets worse
- Treat injury around eye
- Bandage injured eye
First degree burns
- Check level of consciousness
- Apply something cold on the burn (not ice)
- Repeat 2 until burn feels better
- Treat for shock
- Contact EMS (infant, large area, on face or neck)
Second degree burns
- Check level of consciousness
- Apply something cold on the burn (not ice)
- Repeat 2 until burn feels better
- Apply a dry sterile dressing
- Treat for shock
- Contact EMS (infant, large area, on face or neck)
Third degree burns
- Check level of consciousness
- Contact EMS
- Apply something cold on the burn (not ice)
- Repeat 2 until burn feels better
- Apply dry sterile dressing
- Treat for shock
- Contact EMS (infant, large area, on face or neck)
Choking
- Encourage them to cough
- 5 back blows
- 5 thrusts
- Repeat 2 and 3 until object comes put or victim falls unconscious
- contact EMS if victim falls unconscious then star CPR
What does SAMPLE stand for (sample questions)
S- signs and symptoms A- allergies M- medication/medical history P- personal history L- last oral intact (last food intact) E- events leading
What does AMTPM stand for?
A- amount M- medication T- time P- person M- method
What does HEARTS stand for? (Heart attack or angina)
H- history E- EMS A- ABC's R- remove tight clothes T- take any medications S- semi sit/prone
What does DRS stand for? (External bleeding)
D- direct pressure
R- rest
S- semi sit/semi prone
What does SAME stand for? (Stroke)
S- smile
A- arm raised
M- make them repeat a sentence
E- even pupils
What does WARTS stand for? (Shock)
W- warmth A- ABC's R- rest and reassurance T- treatment for any injuries S- semi sit/prone
Whats the secondary assessment acronym and what does it stand for?
L- LOC B- breathing (rate, rhythm, depth) C- circulation (rate, rhythm, depth) P- pupils (equality, size) S- skin (texture, temperature, colour)
what does LOC stand for
Level of consciousness
What does EMS Stand for?
Emergency medical system
