Airway
If you find someone lying facedown and unresponsive, this is the first step you should take after ensuring the scene is safe.
What is roll them safely onto their back?
With a face-up patient who is unconscious, this method is used to check for breathing.
What is "Look - Listen - Feel"?
This is the first step in assessing circulation in an unresponsive patient.
What is checking for a pulse?
Your patient appears to have fallen from a 15ft ledge; you suspect this.
What is a possible spinal injury?
This is the most common concern for an injured patient in a cold environment.
What is hypothermia?
If you find someone face up who is unconscious and not breathing, what should you do first (scene is safe)?
What is Open their Airway with a head-tilt and chin-lift?
If a standing, conscious patient is having trouble breathing, this is a common position of comfort.
What is the "tri-pod" position?
This is the most effective location to check for a pulse in an unconscious adult.
What is the carotid artery (in the neck)?
A sudden inability to move or feel the legs after trauma may indicate this.
What is a spinal cord injury (paralysis)?
If you are unable to move a hypothermic patient, you should do this.
What is insulate them in place?
A person is holding their neck, not making any sounds, and looking panicked. They are displaying the universal sign for this.
What is choking?
When using the "look-listen-feel" technique for checking breathing, you are LOOKING for this.
What is chest rise & fall?
During your initial blood sweep, you find a wound that is spurting blood at a rate mirroring the patients pulse. The first thing you do is this.
What is applying direct pressure?
Your patient is responsive, yet can't remember what happened. You suspect this.
What is a concussion / Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)?
Your patient is feeling drowsy and stumbling, yet there is an encroaching fire hazard. After ensuring the scene is safe to approach them, you should do this.
What is assist them to a safer location away from the fire?
When performing abdominal thrusts on a choking adult, your hands should be placed here.
What is directly above the belly button, making a fist?
This is the normal respiratory rate for a healthy adult at rest.
What is 12-20 breaths per minute (BPM)?
This is the maximum amount of time you should take to check for a pulse before starting CPR.
What is 10 seconds?
You need to get a conscious, yet unmoving patient with a suspected spinal injury to a safer location for evacuation. To move them safely, you must prioritize this.
What is stabilizing the head and neck?
Your patient is moderately hypothermic and their clothes are soaking wet. You should do this to treat them.
What is remove wet clothing?
This is a common cause of airway blockage when an unconscious person's muscles relax (e.g., an opioid overdose)
What is the tongue?
This piece of equipment helps to protect the responder from unsanitary exposure, and helps administer effective rescue breaths.
What is an oronasal mask?
This life-saving technique should be started immediately if a person has no pulse and is not breathing.
What is CPR with rescue breaths?
Your patient is bleeding profusely from the head, but is extremely combative and threatening you with a large sledgehammer. You respond by doing this.
What is back away and call for help?
Your patient is experiencing severe heat stroke after working in the hot sun. To remove them from the immediate threat, you should do this.
What is get them into the shade/out of the sun?