Chptr 2 Flashcards
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ARC stands for
Access, Recognize, Care
Preforming a visual survey (if scene is safe)
Checking for responseiveness
Are considered what?
Essential 1st steps in
Rápid Assessment for adults
PPE (gloves, Breathing Barriers, gowns, face shields, eye wear, biohazard bags)
Hand hygine
Engineering controls
Work place practice controls
Proper equipment cleaning
Proper spill clean up
Are all examples of….
Standard precautions
Rapid Assessment for adults
Visual Survey for Safety
Initial impression (Suspicion) (appear sick / unresponsive) (Skin: Pale, Mottled, Cyanotic) (Breathing) (Bleeding- Stop Bleeding 1st)
Resources (Who can help / Additional Equipment)
- Check for Responseiveness… How?
- If unresponsive, what? 2 Parts
- Then what follows, when they are responsive?
1.If they are speaking, making noise, moving
2.(A) Shout, Tap, Shout.
Are you ok? Tap both hands on Clavicle, Miss Jones, are you okay?
(B) Shout for someone to activate the Emergency Response System & Bring an AED
- Ask for permission to help
In an unresponsive Adult Paitent
- Shout, Tap, Shout.
Are you ok? Tap both hands on Clavicle, Miss Jones, are you okay? - Shout for someone to activate the Emergency Response System & Bring an AED
Then…
Have them face up and Open Airway
with Head Tilt, Chin Lift Technique
A modified jaw thrust maneuver is used when?
In a paitent with suspected neck or spinal cord injury
After opening the airway in an unresponsive paitent what do you do next?
For how long?
Check fir Breathing & Pulse simultaneously
Atleast 5 seconds not more than 10
How do you check the pulse
Coratid Pulse
When looking for breathing check (3)
That the chest is rising and falling
Listen for escaping air
Feel for breaths against the side of your cheek
When checking for pusle…
Palpate the coratid artery by sliding 2 fingers into the groove of the paitents neck
Paitent must be in the face up position aka
Supine
ABC stands for
The order of the Rapid Assessment
Airway Opening
Breathing or lack thereof
Circulation (Simultaneously with Breathing)
Assessing for safety
initial impressions
Life threatening Bleeding
Need for additional resources
Are all part of….
Visual Survey
1st part if the Rapid Assessment
After preforming the visual survey on a respoive paitent what do you do before beginning treatment?
Obtain consent
- ID yourself to paitent or legal guardian
- (Fill in Blank)
- Expalin what you observed
- Explain what you plan to do
- Ask for permission to provide care
Are all part of obtaining consent
Which is done after the Visual Survey before providing care
State you level of training
When can you administer care to an adult paitent without consent (4)
Unresponsive
Altered mental state
Mentally impared
Unable to give consent verbally or through gestures
To check for breathing and pulse you must first open the adults airway to a ____ position
Using either the Head-tilt/ chin-lift tech
Or
Modified Jaw-Thrust maneuver
Past-neutral
Press down on the forehead with 1 hand
While
Pulling up on the bony underside part of the chin with 2 or 3 fingers of the other hand
Then tilt head to a past neutral position
This technique is called?
Is used for
Head-tilt / Chin-lift
Opening airway without suspected Spinal Injury
Posistion self above paitents head (behind them)
Hands on both sides of patients head with Thumbs near Corner of the Mouth- Pointed towards the chin
Slide fingers under Angle of Jaw Bone without Moving Head or Neck
Thurst Jaw up without moving head or neck to open airway
Is this technique
Used when
Modified Jaw-thrust
Spinal Injury
Paitent is not breathing (ineffective ventilation) and Central Pulse is present implement care for…
Respitory Arrest or Respitory Failure
Paitent is not breathing or only gasping and their central pulse is absent implement care for….
Cardiac Arrest
You see a paitent laying on the floor and must 1st preform a Visual Survey which actions do you take.
A. Check for breathing and a Carotid pulse.
B. Observe for any sign of illness or injury, including life threatening bleeding
C. Determine whether additional help is needed
D. Check for Responseiveness
E. Open paitents airway
B & C
Before you help
1.Access for immediate Dangers
- Gather initial impressions (Life threatening bleeding )
- ID which additional resources
Rapid Response Team / Resuscitation Team Or an AED machine
The first part of helping is called a VISUAL SURVEY and contains 3 elements.
Name them
Before you help
1.Access for immediate Dangers
- Gather initial impressions (Life threatening bleeding )
- ID which additional resources
Rapid Response Team / Resuscitation Team Or an AED machine
As you check for breathing you
- Look for chest rises and falls
- Listen for air escaping
- Feel fir breathing against the side of your cheek
True or False
True