First Responder W5 Flashcards
What should First Responders consider?
All patients may be infected with some disease
First responder most important consideration is
Ensure own safety
What are the 4 means of transmission?
Direct Contact
Indirect Contact
Airborne
Vectorborne
T/F
You have a duty to act as a Police Officer
True
An attempted resuscitation in the event of a cardiac arrest
DNR
Open Response
APVU
- Alert
- Pain
- Verbal
- Unresponsive
What are the three patient assestment?
- Primary Assesement (Life Threatening)
- Secondary Assestment (Not Life Threatening
- Reassestment
How do you determine if a patient is conscious?
If they answer questions accurately and appropriately
What are the three types of consent
- Expressed Consent
- Informed Consent
- Implied Consent
The patient lets you know verbally or nonverbally that he or she is willing to accept treatmentp
Expressed Consent
The patient understands who you are, what you want to do and what has happened and allows you to treat them
Informed Consent
The patient does not specifically refuse emergency care
Implied consent
Open Response
CAB
- Circulation
- Breathing
- Airway
How must you document?
Be clear, concise and accurate
You must treat the patient to the best of your ability
pass patient on to someone with same or higher level of training
Standard of Care
What are the two blocked airway maneuvers?
Head tilt chin lift maneuver
Jaw thrust maneuver
Signs of adequate breathing
you must look, listen and feel
noisy respirations, wheezing, or gurgling
rapid or gasping respirations
What is the patient assessment sequence
Perform a scene size up
Peform a primary assessment
Obtain the patient’s medical history
Perform a secondary assessment
Perform a reassessment
a general overview of the incident and its surrounding
scene size up
W
two types of pulses
Carotid and Radial
something about the patient you can see or feel for yourself
sign
something the patient tells you about his or her condition
symptom
SAMPLE
Signs and symptoms
Allergies
Medications
Pertinent past medical history
Last oral intake
Events leading up to the injury or illness
What is the normal adult resting respiratory rate?
60 - 100 beats per minute
How often must you reassess a stable patient?
Every 15 minutes and if the patient is unstable repeat the reassessment every 5 minutes
What does the recovery position prevents?
prevents secretions from entering the trachea
caused by sudden episodes of uncontrolled electrical imulses in the brain
Genralized seizures
Febrile Seizures
seizure
chest pain caused by an inadequate flow of blood and oxygen to the heart muscle.
In other words, warning sign
Angina Pectoris
results when one or more of the coronary arteries is completely blocked
Heart Attack
complete stop of heartbeat
Cardiac Arrest
caused by failure of the heart to pump adequately
Symptoms:
Breathing difficulty
rapid, shallow breathing
moist or gurgling respirations
profuse sweating
enlarged neck veins
swollen ankles
anxiety
Congestive Heart Failure (CFH)
____ are caused by a blood clot that blocks blood supply to a part of the brain
Symptoms
dizziness
patient may be alert, confused, unresponsive, or unable to speak
confusion
facial droop
stroke
Open Response
FAST ED
Facial Droop
Arm Drift
Speech
Time
Eye Deviation
Denial / Neglect
caused by the body’s inability to process and use glucose
Diabetes
occurs if the body has enough insulin but not enough blood glucose
rapid onset of symptoms within minutes
Insulin shock
very rapid onset
hives, a rapid, low blood pressure and loss of consciousness
anaphylatic shock
anaphylaxis shock
life threatening allergic reaction that affects the whole body
medication that reverses the severe effects of allergic reaction
epinephrine
yellow - adolescent and adult size
green - small child
occurs when a person is exposed to temperatures greater than 80 degrees F
heat exhaustion
involuntary spasms of the muscles
heat cramp
occurs when the body is subject to more heat than it can handle.
heat stroke
internal temperature as high as 106 degrees F
occurs when a persons body temperature drops to less than 95 degrees F
hypothermia
normal heart rate
12-20 bpm
How many degrees of burns are there?
3rd degree
2nd degree
1st degree
reddened and painful skin
minor to moderate pain
Superficial burns (1st degree)
blistering
moderate to severe pain
(2nd degree)
damage all layers of the skin
Full thickness burns (3rd degree)
What are burns classified as?
depth
What are the two pressure points?
Brachical Artery
Femoral Artery
