Lesson 5: Basic First Aid Flashcards
● Immediate help provided to a sick person until professional medical help arrives or becomes available.
● A way of preparing individuals to respond to emergency sit quickly.
● Adminestering fist aid tech before med help arrives.
● Initial assistance or treatment given to person
First aid
True or false
First aid preserves life and prevent further harm and complications
True
Managing an incident
Choose from the ff:
- Assesing situation
- Making an area safe
- Giving emergency help
Evaluating the scene accurately is one of the most important factors in the management of an incident and maintaining calm
Assesing situation
Managing an incident
Choose from the ff:
- Assesing situation
- Making an area safe
- Giving emergency help
Once area has been made safe, use primary survey to quickly carry out an initial assessment of the casualty to establish treatment priorities.
- Giving emergency help
Managing an incident
Choose from the ff:
- Assesing situation
- Making an area safe
- Giving emergency help
State that you have first aid training and there are no medical personnel in attendance, calmly take charge
Assesing situation
Managing an incident
Choose from the ff:
- Assesing situation
- Making an area safe
- Giving emergency help
If possible, treat casualties in the position in which you find them; move them only if they are in immediate danger or if it is necessary in order to provide life-saving treatment.
Giving emergency help
In assesing situatuion there are 3s to consider
Safety, Scene, Situation
Managing an incident
Choose from the ff:
- Assesing situation
- Making an area safe
- Giving emergency help
Usually, specialist help and equipment is required for this. When approaching a casualty, make sure you protect yourself: wear high visibility clothing, gloves, and head protection if you have them.
Making an area safe
The 6 qualities of a good first aider
Gentle
Obesvant
Resourceful
Tactful
Empathic
Careful
A good first aider is _____ to minimize pain
gentle
A good first aider _____ other possible injuries
observe
A good first aider make use of hand, or other things in his/her surroundings
Resourceful
A good first aider should be caring, putting yourself into patient/victim condition
Empathic
A good first aider is ______ not to add injury or pain for the victim/patient.
careful
How to protect self and patient from infection?
● Use PPE – (gloves, mask, goggles)
● Proper handwashing is the single most e ective way of eliminating acquiring/passing on di erent diseases.
set of strategies to avoid spread of blood borne pathogens.
Universal precautions
● A break in the skin or internal body surfaces
● Can be daunting, particularly if there is a lot of bleeding, but prompt action reduces the amount of blood loss and minimizes shock
wound
outer layer of skin is intact and damage lies below surface
close wound
outer layer of skin is broken. Can be minor as a scrape or as severe as adeep penetration.
open wound
first aid for closed wound
● ice pack
● Elevate injured part
● do not assume all closed
wounds are minor injuries
● help person to rest
● Provide comfort and reassure
the person
● clean surface cut from a
sharp edged object such as a
razor.
● Do not consider as minor.
● Blood vessels are cut straight
across, so bleeding may be
profuse.
● Structures such as nerves or
tendons may be damaged.
simple laceration
● Blunt or ripping forces results in tears or lacerations
● May bleed less than surface cuts, but there may be deep tissue damage
● Often contaminated with germs = high risk of infection
complex laceration
● Superficial wound in which
the topmost layers of skin are scraped o ff, leaving a raw, tender area.
● Often caused by sliding fall or a friction burn
● Can contain embedded foreign particles that may cause infection.
abrasion