RED CROSS UPDATED FINAL PAPER QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Paramedics - ✔✔Highly specialized emergency personnel whose skills include both
basic and advanced life support
✔✔Clean all equipment and work surfaces that have come into contact with bodily
fluids. - ✔✔Use a solution of 60ml of bleach per 4l of water
✔✔Exposure control plan - ✔✔plan that outlines specific work practices to prevent
exposure to infectious material and identifies step-by-step procedures to follow when
exposures do occur
✔✔3 steps to follow when encountering an injured person - ✔✔Check: the scene and
the person
Call: for help and 911
Care: for the person
✔✔Check the scene - ✔✔Is the scene safe?
What happened?
How many victims?
Can bystanders help?
✔✔Check the person - ✔✔Does the person respond when you talk to him or her?
Does the person respond when tapped on shoulders?
Check the person's ABC: airway, breathing and circulation (ABC checking should be
done in 5 to 10 seconds)
✔✔A= check the airway - ✔✔If the person is crying, speaking, moaning, the airway is
open
If is unresponsive, perform a head tilt, chin lift
✔✔agonal respirations - ✔✔Slow, shallow, irregular respirations or occasional gasping
breaths; sometimes seen in dying patients.
✔✔Check the circulation - ✔✔Use defibrillatior if necessary
✔✔Call first of care first? - ✔✔In almost every circumstance you should call EMS/911
before administering care in a life-threatening circumstance; if injury or illness is life-
threatening such as a person not breathing or bleeding uncontrollably, enlist the help of
a bystander or putting your phone on speaker while you begin care.
✔✔recovery position - ✔✔A side-lying position used to maintain a clear airway in
unconscious patients without injuries who are breathing adequately.
, ✔✔Epinephrine injection - ✔✔Into the person's outer thigh
✔✔Primary Assessment - ✔✔life threatening
✔✔Secondary Assessment - ✔✔Other injuries and conditions that may need care
✔✔Sample Questions - ✔✔Signs and symptoms, allergies, medication, past medical
history, last oral intake (food or drink), events leading up to the emergency.
✔✔check vital signs - ✔✔Level of responsiveness [alert, sleepy, confused], breathing
[fast, slow, deep, shallow, painful], skin [wet or dry, unusual colour/temperature].
✔✔Shock signs and symptoms - ✔✔Anxiety, confusion, cool, clammy skin paler than
normal, weakness, rapid breathing, nausea, vomiting, drowsiness or loss of
responsiveness
✔✔Partial choking - ✔✔When a person's airway is only partially blocked; the person is
still able to breathe, which means they can cough or speak; can become complete
choking.
✔✔Complete choking - ✔✔When a person's airway is completely blocked; can't cough
or speak but may make high-pitched squeaking noises; person can't breathe and is in a
life-threatening emergency needing immediate care.
✔✔Prevent choking on babies and children - ✔✔-Begin foods with purées
-supervise
-don't let them reach objects that they could swallow
✔✔Toys smaller than 4cm are - ✔✔Choking hazards for babies
✔✔Partial Choking: Care - ✔✔Call EMS/911 if the obstruction does not clear or gets
worse; encourage person to cough forcefully, assist person in sitting upright, if possible.
✔✔Complete Choking: Care - ✔✔Begin to help immediately, enlist the help of a
bystander (if possible) to call EMS/911 and retrieve and AED device; try to dislodge the
object by alternating between back blows, abdominal thrusts, and chest thrusts; if the
person becomes unresponsive begin CPR, starting with chest compressions.
✔✔Back blows - ✔✔Deliver up to 5 firm back blows
✔✔If you are by yourself and choking - ✔✔-move to a place where you can be seen
-perform abdominal thrusts on the back of a chair
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Paramedics - ✔✔Highly specialized emergency personnel whose skills include both
basic and advanced life support
✔✔Clean all equipment and work surfaces that have come into contact with bodily
fluids. - ✔✔Use a solution of 60ml of bleach per 4l of water
✔✔Exposure control plan - ✔✔plan that outlines specific work practices to prevent
exposure to infectious material and identifies step-by-step procedures to follow when
exposures do occur
✔✔3 steps to follow when encountering an injured person - ✔✔Check: the scene and
the person
Call: for help and 911
Care: for the person
✔✔Check the scene - ✔✔Is the scene safe?
What happened?
How many victims?
Can bystanders help?
✔✔Check the person - ✔✔Does the person respond when you talk to him or her?
Does the person respond when tapped on shoulders?
Check the person's ABC: airway, breathing and circulation (ABC checking should be
done in 5 to 10 seconds)
✔✔A= check the airway - ✔✔If the person is crying, speaking, moaning, the airway is
open
If is unresponsive, perform a head tilt, chin lift
✔✔agonal respirations - ✔✔Slow, shallow, irregular respirations or occasional gasping
breaths; sometimes seen in dying patients.
✔✔Check the circulation - ✔✔Use defibrillatior if necessary
✔✔Call first of care first? - ✔✔In almost every circumstance you should call EMS/911
before administering care in a life-threatening circumstance; if injury or illness is life-
threatening such as a person not breathing or bleeding uncontrollably, enlist the help of
a bystander or putting your phone on speaker while you begin care.
✔✔recovery position - ✔✔A side-lying position used to maintain a clear airway in
unconscious patients without injuries who are breathing adequately.
, ✔✔Epinephrine injection - ✔✔Into the person's outer thigh
✔✔Primary Assessment - ✔✔life threatening
✔✔Secondary Assessment - ✔✔Other injuries and conditions that may need care
✔✔Sample Questions - ✔✔Signs and symptoms, allergies, medication, past medical
history, last oral intake (food or drink), events leading up to the emergency.
✔✔check vital signs - ✔✔Level of responsiveness [alert, sleepy, confused], breathing
[fast, slow, deep, shallow, painful], skin [wet or dry, unusual colour/temperature].
✔✔Shock signs and symptoms - ✔✔Anxiety, confusion, cool, clammy skin paler than
normal, weakness, rapid breathing, nausea, vomiting, drowsiness or loss of
responsiveness
✔✔Partial choking - ✔✔When a person's airway is only partially blocked; the person is
still able to breathe, which means they can cough or speak; can become complete
choking.
✔✔Complete choking - ✔✔When a person's airway is completely blocked; can't cough
or speak but may make high-pitched squeaking noises; person can't breathe and is in a
life-threatening emergency needing immediate care.
✔✔Prevent choking on babies and children - ✔✔-Begin foods with purées
-supervise
-don't let them reach objects that they could swallow
✔✔Toys smaller than 4cm are - ✔✔Choking hazards for babies
✔✔Partial Choking: Care - ✔✔Call EMS/911 if the obstruction does not clear or gets
worse; encourage person to cough forcefully, assist person in sitting upright, if possible.
✔✔Complete Choking: Care - ✔✔Begin to help immediately, enlist the help of a
bystander (if possible) to call EMS/911 and retrieve and AED device; try to dislodge the
object by alternating between back blows, abdominal thrusts, and chest thrusts; if the
person becomes unresponsive begin CPR, starting with chest compressions.
✔✔Back blows - ✔✔Deliver up to 5 firm back blows
✔✔If you are by yourself and choking - ✔✔-move to a place where you can be seen
-perform abdominal thrusts on the back of a chair
