First Aid Test

Question 1

What are the 4P’s of first aid?

Answer 1

Protect yourself

Preserve Life

Prevent Condition Worsening

Promote recovery

Question 2

How do you administer an epi pen?

Answer 2

Take off cap

Blue end to the sky

Stab in thigh for 10 seconds

Question 3

IMPORTANT PRACTICAL TEST!

What is the unconscious casualty procedure?

Answer 3

DRAB CRS!

Danger: check around for immediate danger, glass, electricity wires etc.

Response: check if they’re responsive

• VOICE - approach from feet and say “can you hear me Sam? I’m here to help.” Shake his feet. Shake his shoulders.
• PAIN - “I’m going to put my nail in your nail bed”

Airway: tilt head and chin back

Breathing: Lick hand see if breathing, then look down body to see rise and fall of breath for 10 seconds (should count around 3 breaths).

Check 1 (Quick Check): Slide hands over all body starting from head, behind neck, across chest and behind back, down arms, belly, legs feet. CHECK HANDS FOR BLOOD REGULARLY.

Check 2: Checking for lumps and bumps, indentations slowly do the same as above. Check eyes.

Recovery position: Straighten legs, put arm closest to you at a right angle to the body with palm facing up, press their other hand on their cheek and hold it there, lift up knee and pull over, put this knee at right angle, open airways.

Spine: Check along spine for injury

Question 4

IMPORTANT PRACTICAL TEST!

Adult:

Child:

Baby:

Answer 4

Adult: Tilt head up, 5 breaths, Locked arms fully weight down 2 hands between nipples, 30 pulses, 2 breaths, 30 pulses 2 breaths.

Child: Tilt head up, 5 breaths, Locked arms fully weight down one hand between nipples, 30 pulses, 2 breaths, 30 pulses 2 breaths.

Baby: Neutral head 5 breaths, Locked arms fully weight down two fingers between nipples, 30 pulses, 2 breaths, 30 pulses 2 breaths.

Question 5

IMPORTANT PRACTICAL TEST!

Direct pressure bandage dressing

Answer 5

• Sit them down
• Remove clothing
• Sterile water clean
• Put pad over wound
• Unravel and wrap round keeping it tight
• Get them to hold shoulder (elevate)

Question 6

IMPORTANT PRACTICAL TEST!

Indirect pressure bandage dressing

Answer 6

• Two rolls either side of wound | ^ |
• Get person to hold those two
• Wrap round either side of wound keeping tight and doing figure of 8.
• Get them to hold shoulder (elevate)

Question 7

1. What is anaphylaxis?
2. Causes?
3. Signs/ symptoms?

Answer 7

1. A severe allergic reaction which produces large amounts of antihistamine.
2. Animals, food, medicine, latex, stings etc.
3. Wheezing/ coughing, discolouration etc.

Question 8

What do you do when someone is choking?

Answer 8

1. Ask – are you choking!?
2. Palm of hand whack 5 times, check if its come out each time.
3. Abdominal thrust – make fist with thumb on top and hug then in and up 5 times.

Question 9

What are some types of infection (give examples of each)?

Answer 9

Viral (e.g HIV, chicken pox, cold/ flu).

Bacterial (e.g chylamdia, tetanus, TB)

Fungal (e.g ringworm, thrush, athletes foot).

Parasitic (e.g scabies, lice, malaria).

Question 10

Major Incidents

What is METHANE?

Answer 10

Major incident?

Exact location

Type of incident

Hazards

Access and egress

Number of casualties

Emergency services

Question 11

Major Incidents

What to ask a conscious casualty?

Answer 11

DNA SAMPLES!

Date of birth
Name
Address

Signs and symptoms
Allergies
Medication
Past medical history 
Last time they ate/ drank
Event 
Someone to call.

Question 12

Bleeding

Average amount of blood

How much of that lost to die?

Answer 12

5l

40% loss (2l)

Question 13

IMPORTANT PRACTICAL TEST!

Hole wounds

Answer 13

1. Clean wound
2. Establish where point it
3. Hold down that with force
4. Feed bandages in.

Question 14

If blood is coming from arteries…

If blood is coming from veins…

If blood is coming from capillaries…

Answer 14

Bright red, oxygenated spurting out.

Dark red, slower coming out.

Slow coming out, will take 10 minutes to clot