American Red Cross CPR / AED Certification Study Guide | Questions and Answers with complete solution

What is the Citizen Responders first step in an emergency? - Recognize - check - call What is the most important thing you can do in any emergency? - Call all What are the correct steps in checking an emergency? - Check, Call, Care Why should you check a scene first before providing care? - To ensure the scene is safe. You don't want to place yourself in unsafe scene. What does implied consent refer? - If they are unconscious of a child with no adult, you can perform care If a child is bleeding badly, what should you do immediately? - Call all and stop blood (put on gloves) The best way to tell if a victim is conscious is to...? - Tap their left shoulder, check for breathing, ask them a question How should you check for signs of breathing? - Head back, chin up, face chest, listen for breathing watch chest, look listen and feel for 10 seconds Best way to prevent disease transmission? - Use gloves or anything that is a barrier to bodily fluid contact How should you check a conscious child for non-life threatening emergencies? - From head-to-toe talking them through with itIf you think a person is not breathing, what would you do next? - Call all, look, listen and feel for breathing