2025 BLET First Responder
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1. Good Samaritan Law This law deals with the rendering of first aid by health care professionals
at the scene of an accident or sudden injury. It encourages health care
professionals to provide medical care within the scope of their training
without fear of being sued for negligence
2. When are you allowed when someone with equal or greater training arrives to take over, you
to stop administering become unable to render care, or it becomes unsafe for you to continue
aid under the good providing care
Samaritan law
3. What does the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
acronym HIPPA stand
for
4. What does HIPPA do Protects patients privacy by prohibiting against the release of personal
information by healthcare providers and similar entities
Does not apply to sharing information with other medical professionals
5. Express (informed) An adult person is conscious and of the right mind
consent
6. What should you do if Do not continue physical care, but maintain monitoring the individual
a person refuses treat-
ment and they are of
the right mind
7. Implied Consent only A person is unconscious, or his/her physical or mental abilities are
applies to what two incapacitated
cases?
First aid should not be delayed for lack of consent because the law
presumes the person would consent under those circumstances
8. Personal Protective Equipment
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What does PPE stand
for
9. What is Personal Barrier equipment used to prevent exposure to blood, infectious mate-
Protective Equipment rials, and other bodily fluids (gloves, goggles, mask)
(PPE)
10. What does Don on and How to put on and take off disposable gloves
Don Off PPE
Turning them inside out and ensuring the outside contents of the glove
does not make contact with the hand
Wash hands immediately after if possible
11. When should gloves be whenever there is the potential for contact with blood or other body fluids
used?
12. What do Masks do It is meant to help block large-particle droplets, splashes, sprays, or
when they are worn splatters that may contain germs
properly?
It may also help reduce exposure of your saliva and respiratory secretions
to others
13. What does Eye Protec- May protect and prevent exposure to fluids that are splashed, splattered,
tion do when it is worn or sprayed around you
properly?
14. What are the first 4 Make sure the scene is safe
things you should do Request EMS
in an Initial Patient As- Put on PPE
sessment Check to see if the person is alert and responsive
15. Massive hemorrhage
Airway
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What does the Respirations
M.A.R.C.H acronym Circulation
stand for? Head injury/ hypothermia
16. What is the number Hemorrhage from a compressible wound or any life-threatening extrem-
one potentially surviv- ity bleed
able cause of death at
the POI (point of injury)
17. What is one of the Control of external bleeding
most important ele-
ments in the preven-
tion and management
of shock (hypoperfu-
sion)
18. What is the most im- immobilize the patient from moving their head and spine to reduce the
portant thing to pro- likelihood of a spinal cord injury
tect when checking
someone's airway
19. What does respiration In common speech, respiration means breathing in all its aspects
mean
20. How to determine the Look at the person's chest to determine the chest rising and falling with
adequacy of respira- each breath appropriately
tion and breathing
You can also listen for air exchange at the nose and mouth
21. What is a normal respi- 12-20 breaths per minute
ratory rate for an adult
22. What is a normal respi- 18 to 30 breaths per minute
ratory rate for a child
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1. Good Samaritan Law This law deals with the rendering of first aid by health care professionals
at the scene of an accident or sudden injury. It encourages health care
professionals to provide medical care within the scope of their training
without fear of being sued for negligence
2. When are you allowed when someone with equal or greater training arrives to take over, you
to stop administering become unable to render care, or it becomes unsafe for you to continue
aid under the good providing care
Samaritan law
3. What does the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
acronym HIPPA stand
for
4. What does HIPPA do Protects patients privacy by prohibiting against the release of personal
information by healthcare providers and similar entities
Does not apply to sharing information with other medical professionals
5. Express (informed) An adult person is conscious and of the right mind
consent
6. What should you do if Do not continue physical care, but maintain monitoring the individual
a person refuses treat-
ment and they are of
the right mind
7. Implied Consent only A person is unconscious, or his/her physical or mental abilities are
applies to what two incapacitated
cases?
First aid should not be delayed for lack of consent because the law
presumes the person would consent under those circumstances
8. Personal Protective Equipment
, 2025 BLET First Responder
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What does PPE stand
for
9. What is Personal Barrier equipment used to prevent exposure to blood, infectious mate-
Protective Equipment rials, and other bodily fluids (gloves, goggles, mask)
(PPE)
10. What does Don on and How to put on and take off disposable gloves
Don Off PPE
Turning them inside out and ensuring the outside contents of the glove
does not make contact with the hand
Wash hands immediately after if possible
11. When should gloves be whenever there is the potential for contact with blood or other body fluids
used?
12. What do Masks do It is meant to help block large-particle droplets, splashes, sprays, or
when they are worn splatters that may contain germs
properly?
It may also help reduce exposure of your saliva and respiratory secretions
to others
13. What does Eye Protec- May protect and prevent exposure to fluids that are splashed, splattered,
tion do when it is worn or sprayed around you
properly?
14. What are the first 4 Make sure the scene is safe
things you should do Request EMS
in an Initial Patient As- Put on PPE
sessment Check to see if the person is alert and responsive
15. Massive hemorrhage
Airway
, 2025 BLET First Responder
Study online at https://quizlet.com/_hgeen2
What does the Respirations
M.A.R.C.H acronym Circulation
stand for? Head injury/ hypothermia
16. What is the number Hemorrhage from a compressible wound or any life-threatening extrem-
one potentially surviv- ity bleed
able cause of death at
the POI (point of injury)
17. What is one of the Control of external bleeding
most important ele-
ments in the preven-
tion and management
of shock (hypoperfu-
sion)
18. What is the most im- immobilize the patient from moving their head and spine to reduce the
portant thing to pro- likelihood of a spinal cord injury
tect when checking
someone's airway
19. What does respiration In common speech, respiration means breathing in all its aspects
mean
20. How to determine the Look at the person's chest to determine the chest rising and falling with
adequacy of respira- each breath appropriately
tion and breathing
You can also listen for air exchange at the nose and mouth
21. What is a normal respi- 12-20 breaths per minute
ratory rate for an adult
22. What is a normal respi- 18 to 30 breaths per minute
ratory rate for a child
