Exam 1 Flashcards
Value of first and to others
Provide immediate, life saving care in emergencies
Frontline defense in times of crises
Value of first aid in remote areas
↑ chance of survival by providing immediate care in situations where access to professional help is delayed due to distance/ transportation
Leading cause of death and disability
Heart disease
What is first aid? (What does it include)
The basic medical care given to someone who is injured or sick it includes cleaning walls treating burns and using bandages
What is consent in first aid?
Conscience and capable persons voluntary agreement to receive medical treatment or first aid from a first aider.
What is informed consent?
Before providing medical assistance, you must explain the injured person what you plan to do the risks and benefits of the treatment. Give them an opportunity to agree to receive help.
What is implied consent?
Person is assumed to have given permission to receive medical assistance, even if they are unable to communicate or give explicit consent
Consent for children
Get consent from parent or guardian
If not present, use implied consent
Who has authority to restrain and transport a person with a psychiatric emergency
A police officer
Consent for refusing help
If patient declines your aid, respect decision
Properly contact the emergency services for professional assistance
Abandonment and first aid
Leaving a patient who requires medical attention without ensuring their properly cared for by another qualified person
Negligence in first aid
When one person fails to exercise the care we expect of an ordinary or reasonable person in that situation this includes protecting others from reasonable and foreseeable harm
Duty to act
. if you are trained in first aid and come across an emergency situation or someone is injured, you have a legal obligation to provide reasonable assistance with the scope of your training until professional medical help arrives.
Breach of duty
Situation where a person with first aid training fails to provide the standard of care that a reasonable person was similar training would provide under the same circumstances
Injury of damages, inflicted first aid
, The immediate medical caregiving to someone who has sustained a physical injury meaning the first steps taken to treat a wound or damage to the body such as applying pressure to stop bleeding or mobilizing, broken bone until professional medical help arrives
. Level of training restrictions.
-restrictions on what techniques can be performed based on the level of certification achieved
Confidentiality
. Ethical and legal obligation to protect the privacy of the casualties medical information
Good Samaritan laws what is it? Who does it protect?
Protect people who help others in an emergency without expecting payment it protects them from lawsuits if they unintentionally causes her harm while helping
Injury prevention what are the 3E’s?
Education, engineering, and enforcement
Haddon matrix
A grad with four columns and three rows that represent different bases of an injury and the columns, present different influencing factors such as physical environment and host
bystander actions why are bystanders vital
They can provide immediate life-saving interventions to an injured or ill person before professional medical help arrives
Bystander lack of knowledge
Situation for someone witnessing her emergency is unable to provide assistance because they do not have the necessary, first aid training or knowledge to proper at least respond
Other factors that influences whether a bystander helps
Social influence, diffusion, responsibility, and evaluation, apprehension, being judgmental
Quality of help provided by a bystander
Can vary depending on their level of first aid training, confidence in the situation in the specific emergency hand
What should be done what is the first action of a bystander?
Assess the scene for safety and ensure their own safety before approaching the victim. Recognize the emergency decide to help call 901 check the person and get first aid.
Recognize the emergency
Look for science, such as unconsciousness, severe bleeding, difficulty breathing, chest pain, choking collapse, confusion
Call 911 EMS is needed
You should call 911 EMS if you need to administer first aid to someone who is experiencing a life-threatening situation
Check the person
Check the scene for safety then gently tap the person and ask if they’re OK and if they’re unresponsive, check their breathing and look for serious beating before calling for emergency medical help and providing necessary care based on the situation
Seeking professional medical care
When first aid isn’t enough to treat the situation such as a severe injury or like that knee condition
How to call EMS
Put the phone on speaker stay calm stay your location and name and the emergency. Answer any questions and respond to any instructions.
PPEs( personal protective equipment)
. glove scouts facemasks I protection
Cleaning up after an emergency
Disinfecting surfaces, cleaning walls and washing cloth
Examples of blood-borne diseases
Hepatitis B hepatitis C CHIV malaria syphilis bola
Examples of airborne diseases
Tuberculosis, measles, chickenpox, cemented herpes
Dying person
Providing comfort and care helping with breathing and managing secretions
Stages of grieving
Denial, anger, or bargaining, depression, and acceptance
Interacting with survivors
Listening, providing comfort and referring practical help
What are arteries?
That carry oxygen rich blood away from the heart to the rest of the body
What can happen if there is an injury to the cervical area of spinal cord?
Result in significant neurological impairments, including paralysis, affecting the arms, hands, trunk and legs, difficulty breathing loss of sensation about the injury site
What typically causes fractures of sternum and ribs
Certain fractures and fractures are usually caused by trauma of the chest, such as from a car accident fall or sports injury
My questions do you ask a responsive victim?
Sample
symptoms, allergies, medication‘s past history, last oral intake and events leading up to the accident
How do you put an unresponsive breathing victim?
Recovery position to the side
Dots
Deformity, open wounds, tenderness, and swelling
What is CPR?
Chest compressions and risk breaths to circulate oxygen and blood throughout the body during cardiac arrest
What are the links in the cardiac chain to survival?
Early axis early CPR early defibrillation
What is the ratio of compression to breaths for adult CPR
30 compressions two breaths
How long should a rescue breast be delivered for children?
One breath every 2 to 3 seconds
How many abdominal thrust are given to a responsive adult or child that is choking
5
What happens when the heart stops beating
Cardiac arrest, heart stops, pumping blood to the brain and other organs
What is a ventricular fibrillation?
Irregular heart rhythm, the lower heart chambers contract in a very rapid and uncoordinated manner as a result the heart is a pump blood to the rest of the body
What is ventricular tachycardia?
The lower chambers of the heart be very quickly resulting in heart attack
When is it the most effective to use a AED and what does it do?
Immediately after someone goes into cardiac arrest and while performing CPR
He analyzes the heart rhythm and delivers an electrical shock to the chest to restore in normal rhythm
