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Check, Call, Care Flashcards

Call First or Care First? Continual Care Recovery Position Helping with Medication

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ABCs

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Airway

Breathing

Circulation

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Responsiveness

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Always have this before performing first aid.

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Barrier Device

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Open the airway with this.

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Head Tilt, Chin Lift

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Check for normal breathing for ___ - ___ seconds.

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Check this by looking for signs of life-threatening external bleeding.

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Circulation

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If the person is speaking, moaning, or crying their airway is (closed/open).

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open

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The chest is rising and normally falling in a regular pattern.

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Breathing

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True or false: someone who can speak or cry is not necessarily breathing.

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False

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Gasping for Air Reflex

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Agonal Respiration

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Unlike normal breathing, it is irregular and sporadic.

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Agonal Respiration

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Life-threatening bleeding must be (left/controlled).

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controlled

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If an individual is unresponsive or has a life-threatening condition, you must always activate ___.

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EMS

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Any time you activate EMS, you should also obtain any necessary tools, such as a First Aid kit and an ___, if they are available.

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AED

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AED

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Automated External Defibrillator

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Unresponsiveness, trouble breathing, and life-threatening bleeding are all signs of a life-threatening ___.

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emergency

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If someone requires EMS, you should almost always call EMS/9-1-1 (before/after) providing care to the person.

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before

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In (some/most) situations, the person’s condition could worsen (or even die) before EMS personnel arrive.

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some

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In these ‘care first’ situations, you may still be able to call EMS/9-1-1 immediately (for example, by calling from a mobile phone and putting it on (mute/speaker) while starting CPR or sending a bystander to call while you begin providing care).

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speaker

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You’re out for dinner with your family when a person sitting at your table drops his cutlery and holds his neck. He is making high-pitched squeaking noises and looks very scared. You recognize this is a choking emergency, and the person cannot breathe.

(Call First/Care First)

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Care First

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Two cars collide at an intersection as you are waiting to cross the street. One of the drivers suffers a severe injury and has life-threatening external bleeding.

(Call First/Care First)

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Care First

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You and your coworkers celebrate a colleague’s birthday with cake during lunch break. There are nuts in the cake, but a coworker allergic to nuts doesn’t know this and has been enjoying a slice. Soon after, she begins to have an anaphylactic reaction.

(Call First/Care First)

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Care First

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A child you are supervising has accidentally swallowed a poisonous substance. He is unable to breathe and soon becomes unresponsive.

(Call First/Care First)

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Care First

A child’s or baby’s oxygen reserve doesn’t last as long as an adult’s, so you must begin CPR as soon as possible. You should call EMS/9-1-1 after giving 2 minutes of CPR (5 cycles of 30 compressions and 2 breaths).

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28
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Any person who is unresponsive or has an altered level of responsiveness should be rolled into the ___ position.

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recovery

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30
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Depending on the situation, you can help someone find, prepare, and take this.

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Medications

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One may only do this for certain life-saving medications.

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Give Medication

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Help a person take their medication if they are (unresponsive/responsive) only.

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responsive

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Involves helping an ill or injured person who has in some way expressed a need for help in taking his or her salbutamol (Ventolin) inhaler or using an epinephrine auto-injector.

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Giving Life-Saving Medication

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With an inhaler, you would dispense the correct number of sprays (from a metered-dose inhaler) either into a spacer or directly into the person’s ___ as he or she inhales.

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mouth

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With an auto-injector, you would inject the epinephrine directly into the person’s (inner/outer) thigh.

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outer

36
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Helping with ___ medications should be limited to finding, preparing, and guiding the person in taking the medication.

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ingested

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In cases where the person is physically unable to get the medication into their mouth (e.g. the person has injured their hands), First Aiders may assist by placing the correct number of pills into the mouth or holding a liquid dispenser up to the person’s mouth, if the person has explicitly ___ the First Aider to do so.

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asked

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Putting something into a person’s mouth if they have not asked you to.

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Choking Hazard

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Checking the person for other injuries and conditions that may need care after identifying and caring for any life-threatening conditions found in the primary assessment.

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Secondary Assessment

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In some cases, you may not get to a ___ assessment. For example, if the person is in cardiac arrest, providing CPR will be your priority; other injuries or illnesses that the person might have are not as important as the one that you are already caring for.

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secondary

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Determining the appropriate care for the person by looking at the signs and symptoms and the information gathered through the SAMPLE questions.

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Secondary Assessment

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44
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Looking carefully for injuries that were not identified during the primary assessment.

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Injury Check

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May involve a focused examination or a hands-on check.

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Injury Check

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If you find a medical-identification product during your check, (discard/read) it carefully.

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read

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48
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If the person is responsive and can answer questions, do (an injury check/a focused examination).

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a focused examination

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50
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Both sides of the ___ should look and feel the same when the person breathes in and out.

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chest

51
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Shock (is not/is) a life-threatening condition.

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is

52
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The best thing you can do when a person is in shock.

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Call EMS/9-1-1

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Fill in the blanks.

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First Aid & CPR (4 decks)

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