FDLE First Aid Review – Flashcards
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When you arrive on scene, what is the first thing to do?
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Scene safety Then ABC
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When driving home, you witness an accident, do you stop stop and render First Aid? Why or why not?
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- Yes - Because you have a duty to act
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If you leave that scene, you are liable for?
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Abandonment
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What are the four types of consent?
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Expressed Implied Informed Minors consent
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If it is a minor, who must give the consent?
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A guardian Parent The Court
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At a crimes scene, if EMS removes the clothing off the patient, what should you do with clothing?
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Preserve it as possible evidence
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If a Rape victim wants to take a shower what should you do?
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- Inform them not to take a shower, evidence can wash off - Not to bathe or wash, explain the need to collect evidence
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What are the most common ways HIV is transmitted?
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Needles Sex Body fluid
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A person is unconscious, unresponsive, not breathing, what is the best thing to do?
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Rescues breathing CPR- with pocket mask
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How do you dispose of contaminated items?
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Bag or containers that cannot be punctured The red hazard waste bags/containers At hospital At fire department
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What are 3 types of hepatitis?
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Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Hepatitis C
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How do you become contaminated with hepatitis A?
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Hygiene
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How do you become contaminated with hepatitis B and C?
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Blood
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What is purpose does skeleton serve?
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Structure, frame, protection, red blood cells
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What do muscles do?
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Allow movement of the body
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What makes up the central nervous system?
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Brain/ Spinal cord
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Your tracheal is considered to be your?
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Wind pipe
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Major part of your circulatory system is?
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The heart Other basic parts are- veins, capillaries, arteries, and blood
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Two types of vessels
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Veins - Carry blood back to the heart Arteries - Carry blood away from heart
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What are small vessels that connect arteries and veins?
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Capillaries
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What system take care food?
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Digestive system; ingesting and digesting
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What does Endocrine system do?
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regulate the body systems by secreting hormones
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What causes the production of urine?
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Genitourinary system; Reproduction and waste removal
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What is the biggest system in the body?
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The skin
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What is considered the initial assessment?
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ABC's- Airway, Breathing, Circulation
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When checking the ABC's, what tips off good and adequate breathing?
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Skin color; Chest rise; EFFORT,sound- no gasping, wheezing, ;Effortless breathing characterizes adequate breathing
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Respiration rates
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Adult- 12- 20 per min Child- 15- 30 per min Infant 25- 50 per min
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Pulse rates
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Adult- 60- 100 Child- 100- 120 Infant- 120- 160
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What areas can you check for pulse?
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Brachial; Radial; Femoral; Carotid
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Areas to check pulse are called
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Pulse points- close to skin
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On an adult who is conscious where would you check pulse?
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Radial
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On and adult who is unconscious where do you check pulse?
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Cordial
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On an infant, unconscious where do you check pulse?
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Brachial
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Symptoms of a heart attack?
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Chest tightening; Chest pain; Numbness; Pale; Shortness of breath
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If someone is blue
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That is bad- sionosis
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If someone is yellow
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Jaundice
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What do DOTS stand for
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Deformities, Open Injuries, Tenderness, Swelling
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What do AVPU stand for
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Alert, Verbal, Pain, Unresponsive
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After ABC's what do you do?
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A physical assessment, SAMPLE
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If you can see an opening in skin, it is a sign or a symptom?
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A sign; What you see
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If someone told you their stomach was hurting, it is a sign or symptom?
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A symptom. What someone tells you; what they feel
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What does SAMPLE stand for?
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- S- signs and symptoms - A- Allergies - M- medications - P- past medical history/injury - L- last oral intake - E- events
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2 vehicles and only one officer equals a
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Mass Casualty - Multiple Casualty Incident; MCI - Officer is outnumbered
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What do you do in Multiple Casualty Incident?
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After communicating to dispatch, and requesting EMS, establishing command on scene; BEGIN TRIAGE,choose and sort;Follow agency policy
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Triage colors
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Red- immediate; Black- deceased; Green- minor; Yellow- delayed, if borderline btw green and yellow, tag yellow
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Guy falls down off Motorcycle; he lays bike to the ground...what wound to the skin will he have?
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abrasion
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Scrape on the skin, caused from rug or road burn?
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abrasion
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Person stabbed until organs hanging out of body?
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evisceration; protrusion
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Leg has a flap of skin torn
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avulsion
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A deep long cut in the skin
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laceration
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Finger completely chopped off
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amputation
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Top portion of finger hanging off
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amputation; partial
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Subject is found with a knife forced into his abdominal area
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puncture wound,incision
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What are 3 wounds you put occlusive dressing on?
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Stomach,abdominal; Chest; Neck
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Abdominal area must have what type of dressing?
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Moist dressing; Occlusive dressing is placed over moist dressing; No dry dressing
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True or False Assume that all chest wounds to be a sucking chest injury until proven otherwise.
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True; open chest injury is considered sucking chest injury
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Circulation
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Circulation- oxygen out of lung to toes- blood oxygenated blood
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Two types of soft tissue injuries
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Hematoma, guse, swelling; collection of blood/fluid; discolored lump, slam finger in car door; Contusion, bruising, not a collection of blood, black or blue; discolored and painful;child abuse
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Person was kicked in chest by a horse... person could have...what do you do?
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Possible internal bleeding; Treat for shock- elevate feet- maintain body temperature,keep warm
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How do you control bleeding?
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Pressure, pressure point i.e brachial, femur; Never do a tourniquet
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What goes directly on a wound?
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dressing; Ranch or Raspberry vinagarette (:
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What are signs and symptoms of shock?
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- Anxiety, restlessness, fainting - Nausea, vomiting - Excessive thirst - Eyes that are vacant and dull; large pupils - Shallow, rapid, irregular breathing - Pale, cool, moist skin - Weak, rapid, absent pulse
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When you treat for shock, how high should you elevate the feet?
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8 to 12 inches
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When person is having difficulty breathing, what don't you want to do?
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do not put the feet and head up
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If a person has an open chest wound, you apply dressing, they state "I cant breath when I lie down"? what do you do?
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Allow them to sit up; keep them up
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Flail chest is
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Closed chest injury occurs when 2 or more adjacent ribs are fractured in 2 or more places and become free floating; Opening to have flail chest, No you do not have to
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If a person has a injury to one eye, what do you do?
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Cover up both eyes
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How long do you irrigate a poisoned skin or eye?
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20 minutes
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If chemical contacted to skin, what do you do before irrigating it?
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Brush it off, then irrigate it
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What are 2 types of injuries that can have entry and exit wounds?
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Gun shot; Electrocution
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What are 2 types of amputations?
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Complete- giatine; Incomplete, Partial, crushing
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What are two types of fractures?
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Open and Close
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If protruding through skin with blood?, it is an
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Open fracture; If laceration appears near a fracture, treat as an open fracture
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What dictates decision to deliver a baby?
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If you see crowning of head
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What do you do to the baby's head?
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Apply gentle pressure
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If the baby not screaming or crying?
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Flick their toes
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Once baby is delivered, what should you do?
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Keep them warm, dry them
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Hypo
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low sugar; high insulin
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Hyper
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high sugar; low insulin; can send into diabetic coma
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What can cause a seizure?
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Triggering - Lights - Temperature (children) - Head trauma - Sugar issues - Epilepsy - Strokes - Poisoning
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How do you deal with a person having a seizure?
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Clear the area; Protect them from further injury; Do not hold them down
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Hypothermia, signs and symptoms?
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Hypothermia- Cold related emergencies; Shivering,Numbness,Changes in pulse rate and breathing,Alert but drowsy,Decreased muscle function,Sluggish pupils,Altered mental status,Bluish skin,Cardiac arrest
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Hyperthermia, signs and symptoms?
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Hyperthermia- heat related emergency; Cramps in legs, arms, abdominal muscles; Weakness, exhaustion, dizziness, fainting,Strong rapid pulse that weakens,Headache,Appetite loss, vomiting,Altered mental state,unresponsive,Seizures,Moist, cool skin during heat cramps or exhaustion,Hot dry skin during heat stroke
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Out of heat exhaustion, heat stroke, heat cramps, what is the worst?
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A heat stroke
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What are four ways to be poisoned?
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Absorption - Inhalation - injection - ingestion
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When do you move someone?
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- Move to treat - To get to other pple - Move only when it is safe - If he or she is in imminent danger; and emergency care is not nearby
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When don't you move someone?
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- In a non emergency situation - Non urgent situation
