Victim Assessment
What is a Secondary Survey (A in SAMPLE acronym)?
Apply direct pressure to the wound, apply bandages on top of saturated ones (do not remove), and treat for shock.
What is first aid for severe external bleeding?
You just watched someone get hit in the chest by a heavy medicine ball! Their signs and symptoms include pain, grinding sensation when lifting arm, and bruising around their collarbone.
What is a collarbone fracture?
This is an acronym can help us remember how to recognize a stroke.
What is Face, Arms, Speech, Time to call 911 (FAST)?
Sometimes this item can be found on a victim's neck or wrist, which will provide valuable information to a First Aider about their medical conditions.
What is a medical alert bracelet, necklace, or tattoo?
You discover that there is glass all over the ground during this type of assessment.
What is a hazard assessment (Scene Survey)?
Cold, white, numb, waxy skin - brrr it is time to go in!
Bonus: Does this person need to seek medical attention?
What is deep frostbite?
Yes, a person with deep frostbite should seek medical attention for rewarming.
When stabilizing the head and neck of the victim by placing your hands on both sides of the head, you are suspecting a ________
What is head injury/spinal injury?
What is a full conscious airway obstruction?
Record of workplace First Aid is kept on this AHS/Recovery Alberta reporting system.
What is My Safety Net?
Eye response (opens to speech, pain), verbal response (oriented, confused), or motor response (obeys commands, withdraws from pain).
What is level of consciousness assessment?
There is an itchy rash present on the victim's chest and upper arms, their lips are swollen, they are having difficulty breathing, and they are anxious.
What are signs and symptoms of a severe allergic reaction?
Rest, Immobilize, Cold, Elevate.
Bonus: What is the maximum amount of time cold should be applied at one time?
What is correct first aid for bone, muscle, or joint injury? (You may not be able to apply all principles each time - based on injury location and patient tolerance)
20 minutes.
Not enough blood is getting to the vital organs! Skin is pale, cool, and clammy. Pulse is rapid and weak. Respirations are rapid and shallow. LOC is variable depending how the degree of this condition the victim is experiencing.
What is shock?
This legislation in Alberta protects you from liability if you perform First Aid within your scope as a First Aider and are not grossly negligent.
What is the Emergency Medical Act?
You find that the victim's pupils are equal sizes, reactive to light, with no visible foreign particles during this assessment.
What is an eye injury assessment?
This is the first step for treating a patient with heat/thermal burns, after scene survey, primary survey, and calling for medical help (ie. 911).
What is cool the burn by immersing in cool water or gently pouring cool water over the area until the pain has decreased. (Be careful not to cool too much or quickly they can get hypothermia)
You suspect this type of traumatic injury in a scenario where a victim has fallen from a height. They have severe pain in the pelvis, are unable to walk, and have legs splayed apart.
What is a pelvic injury/fracture?
Nausea, sweating, back pain, indigestion, and feeling unwell may be examples how this illness presents in some victims.
What are (atypical) signs and symptoms of a heart attack?
What did they take? When did they take it? How much did they take? How did it enter their body (route)?
What are the four facts to determine the history of a poisoning?
You should always do this type of check on the affected limb after applying a dressing.
What is a distal circulation check?
This is the difference between a dressing and a bandage.
What is a dressing covers and protects the open wound while a bandage secures the dressing in place (or immobilizes the limb/joint)?
A strain is a muscle or tendon (tissue connects muscle to bone) injury, and a sprain is a ______ injury.
What is a ligament injury (tissue that connects bone to bone at a joint)?
You are about to start chest compressions for an unresponsive victim with no pulse and no breathing. You notice an intermittent and weak gasping that sounds like a snore.
Bonus: What should you do?
What are agonal gasps?
Continue with CPR, this is not normal breathing.
This traumatic injury is where two or more ribs are broken in two or more places.
Bonus: What are the first aid steps for this injury?
What is flail chest?
(After scene, primary survey, and activating EMS)
Expose the chest and stabilize flail segment (your hand or theirs), give them something bulky to hold against chest to assist with breathing, monitor ABCs, treat for shock, handover to EMS