9 GENERAL FIRST AID RULES - correct answer ✔✔1- GET ORGANIZED
2- UNLESS CONTRAINDICATED, MAKE PRELIMINARY EXAM IN THE POSITION AND PLACE FOUND
3- IN MULTI-VICTIM SITUATION-ABC'S OF BASIC LIFE SUPPORT
4- EXAMINE VICTIM FOR DEFORMITIES/DISABILITIES
5- EXPOSE ENOUGH CLOTHING FOR CLEAR IDEA OF EXTENT OF INJURY
6- KEEP VICTIM REASSURED AND COMFORTABLE
7- PPE-AVOID TOUCHING
8- UNLESS CONTRAINDICATED, POSITION ON SIDE/BACK
9- ALWAYS CARRY LITTER FEET FIRST
SORTING FOR TREATMENT (TACTICAL) - correct answer ✔✔CLASS I- MINOR PROFESSIONAL TREATMENT
CLASS II- IMMEDIATE LIFE-SUSTAINING MEASURES
CLASS III- DELAYED WITHOUT JEOPARDY
CLASS IV- EXTENSIVE TREATMENT BEYOND CAPABILITIES
(MAJOR INJURIES, DIE EVENTUALLY)
SORTING FOR TREATMENT (NONTACTICAL) - correct answer ✔✔PRIORITY I- CORRECTABLE LIFE
THREATENING ILLNESS/INJURY
PRIORITY II- SERIOUS BUT NON-LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESS/INJURY
PRIORITY III- MINOR INJURIES
PRIORITY IV- DEAD OR FATALLY INJURED
(COME SICK MY DUCK)
PRIMARY SURVEY - correct answer ✔✔AIRWAY, BREATHING, CIRCULATION, DISABILITY, EXPOSE,
STATUS/TRANSPORT DECISION (LESS THAN 10 MINS.)
, SECONDARY SURVEY - correct answer ✔✔SUBJECTIVE INTERVIEW, OBJECTIVE EXAMINATION, VITAL
SIGNS, HEAD-TO-TOE SURVEY
SIGNS/SYMPTOMS OF SHOCK - correct answer ✔✔RESTLESSNESS AND APPREHENSION, EYES MAY BE
GLASSY/DULL, PUPILS MAY BE DILATED, BREATHING MAY BE RAPID/LABORED, SKIN MAY BE VERY
PALE/ASHEN GRAY, SKIN FEELS COOL COVERED WITH CLAMMY SWEAT, PULSE RAPID/WEAK/THREADY,
BP SEVERELY LOWERED
CONTROL HEMORRHAGE - PRESSURE DRESSING - correct answer ✔✔BEST WAY TO CONTROL EXTERNAL
BLEEDING - BY APPLYING A COMPRESS AND EXERTING PRESSURE DIRECTLY TO THE WOUND
CONTROL HEMORRHAGE - PRESSURE POINTS - correct answer ✔✔TEMPORARY CONTROL BY APPLYING
HAND PRESSURE - 22 PP's, 11 EACH SIDE
CONTROL HEMORRHAGE - TOURNIQUETS - correct answer ✔✔CONSTRICTING BAND -CUT OFF BLOOD
SUPPLY TO LIMB - LAST RESORT
TREAT HEAD WOUNDS - correct answer ✔✔SAME AS OTHER FRESH WOUNDS, 'NEVER GIVE ANY MEDS',
KEEP VICTIM LYING FLAT, LAY VICTIM ON SIDE IF HEAD WOUND IN BACK, DO NOT USE DIRECT PRESSURE
TREAT FACIAL WOUNDS - correct answer ✔✔SAME AS OTHER FLESH WOUNDS, MAKE SURE NEITHER
TONGUE NOR INJURED SOFT TISSUE BLOCKS AIRWAY, KEEP NOSE/THROAT CLEAR, NEVER ATTEMPT TO
REMOVE ANY OBJECT IMBEDDED IN THE EYEBALL, JUST APPLY DRY STERILE COMPRESS OVER BOTH EYES
TREAT CHEST WOUNDS - correct answer ✔✔MOST SERIOUS CHEST WOUND - SUCKING CHEST WOUND,
IMMEDIATELY SEAL WOUND, FIRMLY TAPE MATERIAL IN PLACE, GIVE 02 IF AVAILABLE, WATCH CLOSELY
FOR SHOCK, DO NOT GIVE DRINKS, TRANSPORT IMMEDIATELY
TREAT ABDOMINAL WOUNDS - correct answer ✔✔DO NOT ATTEMPT TO PUSH THE INTESTINES BACK IN
OR TO MANIPULATE THEM, DO NOT GIVE ANYTHING TO DRINK, IF INTESTINES NOT EXPOSED - DRY
STERILE DRESSING, IF EXPOSED - MOISTENED STERILE COMPRESS HELD IN PLACE BY BANDAGE
CLOSED FRACTURE - correct answer ✔✔ENTIRELY INTERNAL