First Aid

Question 1

What is a medical emergency?

Answer 1

A condition or injury requiring immediate care

Question 2

What are the emergency procedures?

Answer 2

Check surroundings
call 911
begin care

Question 3

After we check the surroundings, we need to examine for life threatening conditions. What are we looking for ?

Answer 3

airway
breathing
bleeding

Question 4

Why should you not move a person from the area?

Answer 4

They may have suffered a back or neck injury and moving the person could cause further damage.
Only move if the person is in danger.

Question 5

Who provides emergency care to sick or injured victims ?

Answer 5

EMT
Emergency medical technician

Question 6

IF the victim is a child or infant and is NOT BREATHING, and you did not see the collapse, what should you do ?

Answer 6

Give 2 breaths and start CPR

Question 7

If you witness a child or infant collapse and they are not breathing what should you do ?

Answer 7

Begin CPR

Question 8

If a victim is unconscious what are the steps for care?

Answer 8

Shout for help
check to be sure breathing has stopped

• Either give breathes or begin CPR right away

Question 9

How do you open the airway ?

Answer 9

Place the head in the head-tilt/chin lift position

Question 10

When should someone administer abdominal thrusts?

Answer 10

If someone is choking but is unable to cough or speak.

Question 11

What is the treatment for a choking infant?

Answer 11

back blows and chest compressions

Question 12

what is the difference between conscious and unconscious?

Answer 12

Being alert and aware of surroundings.

Question 13

What is the disease that is passed through the saliva of an animal?

Answer 13

rabies

Question 14

Who treats eye diseases and disorders?

Answer 14

opthalmologist

Question 15

What is the venom snakes release?

Answer 15

hemolytic

Question 16

What are convulsions?

Answer 16

violent, involuntary muscle contractions

Muscles become stiff and the person will have jerking movements.

Question 17

How should a first-degree burn be treated?

Answer 17

Hold under cold water right away

Question 18

How should a second-degree burn be treated?

Answer 18

Hold under cold water, dry, and cover loosely with bandages.

Question 19

How should you treat a third-degree burn?

Answer 19

This requires medical treatment

Question 20

What causes second-degree burns?

Answer 20

severe sunburn or contact with hot liquids or steam

Question 21

What causes third-degree burn

Answer 21

fire, hot liquids, steam, and electric shock

Question 22

What is cardiac arrest ?

Answer 22

When the heart stops

Question 23

If someone loses too much blood with a third-degree burn what condition should we watch for?

Answer 23

The person can go into shock.

Question 24

What is the prefix for blood?

Answer 24

hema / hemo

Question 25

What is the recovery position and when should you use it?

Answer 25

Use this if you have to leave an unconscious person to get help. Lay a person on their side, head resting on their arm and knee angled inward.

Question 26

What happens if someone is hemorrhaging?

Answer 26

severely bleeding life-threatening blood loss

Question 27

What is the condition when blood pressure drops into a critically low area?

Answer 27

shock

Question 28

When should you use a pressure bandage?

Answer 28

When direct pressure does not stop bleeding

Question 29

What technique combines artificial respiration with chest compressions to keep blood circulating to the brain and heart?

Answer 29

cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR

Question 30

When would you begin CPR?

Answer 30

if a person is unconscious and not breathing

Question 31

When giving CPR, when would you give 30 chest compressions?

Answer 31

This would be the first step if a person is choking and unconscious

Question 32

What should you do if you get a nosebleed?

Answer 32

apply pressure by pinching the nose together use a cold, wet cloth on the bridge of the nose see a doctor if they occur frequently

Question 33

What care should be given for a sprain?

Answer 33

cold compress keep it from moving elevate the area

Question 34

How do you treat frostbite?

Answer 34

Apply dry bandages loosely watch signs of shock

Question 35

True/ false If the first two slow breaths do not cause a victim's chest to rise, you should retilt the head and attempt breaths again.

Answer 35

true

Question 36

How should you perform CPR on an adult?

Answer 36

5 cycles of 30 compressions and 2 breaths in 2 mins

Question 37

what are the signs of heat stroke?

Answer 37

unable to sweat flushed look high fever

Question 38

How do you treat a contusion ?

Answer 38

direct pressure cold compresses elevation