I need Air
A blueish color indicates this
What is A Lack of Oxygen
This occurs when blood vessels found throughout the body are damaged
What is Bleeding?
The complete detachment of a body part.
What is amputation?
Obvious injury to the head, neck/back, numbness, tingling, burning or loss of sensation in the arms, hands, legs or feet are all signs of this.
What is Spinal Cord Injury?
A person experiences weakness, thirst, dizziness, confusion, and less urination than usual
What is Dehydration?
This is used when a person is having difficulty breathing
What is an Inhaler?
This bleeding is bright red and will often spurt from a wound. It can be difficult to control due to the pressure created by the heart's contractions.
What is Arterial Bleeding?
When an object penetrates a body part and remains. As a general rule this object should not be removed.
What is an Impaled Object?
This technique becomes a higher priority when a person is having difficulty breathing, than protecting a suspected injury to the spine
What is establishing an airway?
This occurs when the blood supply to a portion of the brain is suddenly interrupted. Symptoms are weakness, numbness, confusion, facial droop, slurred speech and headache.
What is a Stroke?
I cannot cough, speak or breathe. Something is blocking my airway
What is choking/Severe Airway Block?
This is a standard method of controlling external bleeding.
This technique is used when someone has an injury to the ankle, and it is bruised and swollen
What is RICE (Rest, Immobilize, Compress and Elevate)?
After a hard fall or bump to the heard, a person may feel dizzy, confused and nauseous.
What is a concussion?
A condition that happens when someone hasn't eaten or taken too much of a certain medicine. They feel shaky, sweaty, confused and irritable.
What is Hypoglycemia?
I am laying on my back, unconscious. This maneuver will open my airway
What is Head-Tilt-Chin-Lift?
This is used when the primary step to control severe limb bleeding with direct pressure is not working.
What is a Tourniquet?
This Injury disrupts the chest's ability to draw air into the lungs
What is an open chest injury?
When a person has a significant blow to the head or body and is unable to remember what happened just before or just after the incident or recall simple facts about it.
What is a Concussion?
This is triggered by excessive electrical activity within the brain that result in uncontrolled muscle convulsions throughout the body.
What is a Seizure?
This breath is not a normal breathe. It sounds like snoring.
What is agonal breaths?
Use this when direct pressure does not bleeding, and the injury is located where a tourniquet cannot be applied.
What is Hemostatic Dressings?
This injury is when the abdominal organs protrude through an open wound.
What is an evisceration/Open Abdominal Injury?
Getting into a comfortable position, cupping your hands on both sides of head, minimizing motion, comfort, calm and reassure the person is called
What is Spinal Stabilization?
This occurs when there is a reduced blood flow to the tissue of the heart causing serious damage to the heart.
What is Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS)/Heart Attack?