First Aid Flashcards
How to open the airway of a head/neck/spinal
Modified jaw thrust
Pneumothorax
Hole in chest
Pulse of person with shock
Rapid
Skin of person with shock or heart attack
Clammy
Color of a person with shock or heart attack
Blue
Memory of person with shock
Poor
First step to treat shock
Place a blanket over them
Position for unconcious or semiconcious casualities
Semi prone
Positon for concious casuality only
Semi sitting
Fainting
Decrease of oxygen to brain that causes breif loss of conciousness
Pulse of a person bouta faint
Slow
Nonobvious Causes of fainting
Dehydration, hypoglycemia, cardiac ryhthm variations
Where to hit the back for choking
Between scapulae
How many abdominal thrusts
Five
How fast can unconciousness come to a choking
20 seconds