Hygiene and Sanitation
The best way to purify water
What is boiling?
A __________ occurs when a joint comes apart and stays apart with the bone ends no longer in contact.
What is a dislocation?
Determine the degree burn for the following description:
Skin is red, dry, and painful. Skin may have swelling. Skin is not broken
What is a first degree burn?
While out snowboarding you see that your friend is trembling. When you stop to ask if he is okay he complains he is dizzy and you notice his speech is slurred. He is exhibiting signs of __________.
What is hypothermia?
Hand, Oral, Personal, Nasal, and Food Hygiene
What are the Principles of Sanitation?
A fracture in which the broken end of a bone pierces the skin
What is an open (compound) fracture
___________ burns may only produce a small burn on the skin, but should be treated as potentially life threatening.
Electrical burns
On what side should a victim's body be positioned to delay absorption of an oral poison into the circulatory system?
Left side
__________ are muscular pains and spasms that are caused by loss of salt from the body due to heavy perspiration.
Any of several intestinal disorders usually caused by infection and characterized by stomach pain and diarrhea with passage of mucous and blood
What is the definition of the word "dysentery"?
A fracture in which the broken bone does not push through the skin's surface
When treating first-, second-, or third-degree burns which depth of burn is not treated with water?
Wounds in which the soft tissue in the body is torn, often in jagged or irregular size and shape.
What is a laceration?
The following list of symptoms is related to which type of heat injury?
Heat Exhaustion
What is the definition of the word "sanitation"?
The promotion of hygiene and prevention of disease by working to keep a clean and healthy environment
Damp, soft, sticky, and unusually cool skin
What is clammy skin?
Name the categories for causes of burn injuries. (ex. electrical)
What are heat, chemical, electrical, radiation?
What is your first priority when treating a wound?
Controlling the bleeding
Name the three steps for treating snow blindness.
Get out of the sun, remove contact lenses if you have them, and place a cold, damp cloth over the eyes to lessen discomfort.
An individual's practice of taking care of him or herself in order to maintain good health
What is the definition of the word "personal hygiene"?
Lack of blood flow to critical organs causes this dangerous physiological condition
What is shock?
You called 911 to request emergency assistance for a victim burned in a fire. The victim tells you that he is in a lot of pain. His skin has many blisters and is severely swollen. What should you tell the 911 operator when he asks, "How bad are the burns?"
Diane's friends were going to pick her up soon, but she promised her mom that she would clean up the garage first. It was hot in the garage, so she took a glass of water with her. After sweeping the floor Diane mistakenly drank from a glass of paint thinner, a corrosive substance, that was right next to her glass. She felt the thinner burn as it went down her throat. What would you recommend she do immediately?
Immediately call 911 or the poison control center.
Name the 3 types of hot weather injuries and the 4 types of cold weather injuries.
Hot Weather Injuries: Heat Cramps, Heat Exhaustion, Heat Stroke.
Cold Weather Injuries: Frost Bite, Hypothermia, Trench Foot, Snow Blindness.