Acronyms
ABC
What is Airway Breathing Circulation.
Venomous snakes found in Maryland.
What is Timber Rattlesnake and Copperhead?
Venomous spider in Maryland.
What is Black widow or Brown recluse?
This is the most painful burn.
What is Partial Thickness?
This is First Aid.
What is help given to a sick or injured person until full medical treatment is available.
DOTS
What is Deformities open wounds tenderness swelling?
Poisonous plants found in Maryland.
What is Poison oak, ivy, and sumac?
This is what a partial thickness burn looks like.
What is extremely red, appear wet and/or shiny, painful to the touch, and will form blisters?
What is Charred?
These are two carrys.
What is Backstrap, Four handed, Two handed, or Stretcher?
RICE
What is Rest Ice Compress Elevate?
Hotspot.
What is a place where a blister is forming that is tender?
This is the difference between Hypothermia and Hyperthermia.
What is hypothermia is too cold and hyperthermia is too hot?
This is the difference between open and closed fracture.
What is a closed fracture does not break the skin, while in an open fracture the bone sticks out?
Explain triage.
This is used to label the severity of injuries in a mass casual incident when Green = okay, Yellow = somewhat bad, Red = Bad, and Black = Dead?
FAST
What is Face Arms Speech Time?
A common disease Tics Carry.
What is Lyme disease or Rocky mountain spotted fever?
These Are four signs of dehydration.
What is Increased thirst, dark urine, tiredness/weakness, little or no sweat, nausea, fainting, confusion/dizziness, or headache?
These are the signs of a heart attack.
What is Nausea, Shortness of breath, Cold sweats, Fatigue, Lightheadedness or sudden dizziness, or chest pain?
This is Anaphylactic shock.
What is when your body has an allergic reaction?
AED
What is Automatic External Defibrillator?
This is why blisters do not bleed.
What is Because there are no blood vessels in the epidermis?
Five of the hurry Cases.
What is Heart Attack, Stroke, Cardiac Arrest, stopped Breathing, Poisoning, Excessive bleeding, Choking?
This is the difference between heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
What is In heat exhaustion, the body temperature may be high, but not above 104 F, and medical treatment may be necessary while heat stroke is a life-threatening medical emergency.
This is what carbon monoxide poisoning.
What is When too much carbon monoxide is in the air, your body replaces the oxygen in your red blood cells with carbon monoxide?