First Aid Flashcards
4 methods to control bleeding
Direct pressure
Elevation
Pressure point
Tourniquet as last resort
Objectives of first aid
Prevent further injury
Stop the spread of infection
Prevent death
What’s a pressure point
Artery lies near surface and over bone
Where are pressure point
Temple Jaw Neck Collar bone Inner upper arm Inner elbow Wrist Upper thigh Groin Knee Ankle
Classification of burns
First redness warm mild pain
Second red blister severe pain
Third destroy tissue May May be absent cause nerve ending destroyed
Types of heat injury
Heat exhaustion and stroke
Heat exhaustion
Skin cool moist clammy
pupils dilated
Heat stroke
Serious condit cause by breakdown of sweating mechanism
Hot dry skin
uneven pupil dilation
Weak rapid pulse
Different cold injuries
Hypothermia
Superficial frostbite
Deep frostbite
Hypothermia
Cooling whole body
Pale and unconscious
Slow shallow faint pulse
Stuff limbs
Superficial frostbite
Ice crystal on upper skin 32 degrees or lower
Deep frostbite
Deep tissue 32 and below
What’s shock
Insufficient blood flow throughout body
Septic stock
Bacteria multiplying in blood releasing toxin
Anaphylactic shock
Allergic reaction