Environmental Hazards
What is trench foot and what are the signs and symptoms of it?
When your feet spend a lot of time in acold, wet, environment, blood has adifficult time getting to the area and yourskin/tissue can start to break down.
Symptoms: pain, itchy, numbness ,Swelling,pain, blotchy
What might be happening if someone is coughing and suddenly stops but is showing signs of distress? How can you help this person?
Choking, abdominal thrusts/back blows
Chest thrusts for pregnant people, those in wheelchairs.
This is the first thing you do to any bleeding wound before anything else.
Bonus: What do you do if bleeding doesn't stop
Apply firm, direct pressure.
Bonus: add more bandaging, raise wound above heart, call 911
If you fall onto an object and it gets stuck inside you, what should you do/ not do?
Do not pull the object out! Use items/material to support it/keep it stable or put bandaging around the object.
These are the two signs that mean an allergic reaction has become an emergency, not just uncomfortable.
Trouble breathing/swelling of the face, lips, or throat (or a whole-body reaction like hives plus dizziness)
This is the first thing you do for someone having a seizure
Clear the area around them of anything they could hit.
This is what you should NEVER put directly on a burn, even though people do it out of habit.
ICE
This is what you do with someone's neck and head if you suspect a serious head or neck injury and they're on the ground.
Avoid moving them and keep their head/neck as still as possible until help arrives.
What are 3 things that can help someone who might have been sprayed by bear spray?
Bonus: What are signs/symptoms that someone is in a serious condition after being sprayed?
move them in fresh air, tell them to not rub their eyes, cool water/saline in eyes, gentle soap and water on skin.
Bonus: If someone sprayed is wheezing, can't catch their breath, or their throat feels like it's closing
Besides chest pain, these are other body parts pain can spread to during a heart attack.
Bonus: what heart attack symptom do women present with that often get misdiagnosed?
arm, jaw, back, neck, or stomach. Will also experience shortness of breath & sweating.
Bonus:nausea, back pain, extreme fatigue
This is a sign an infection may be spreading beyond the wound itself.
Bonus: what can you do to track if your infection is spreading?
Red streak moving up the limb
Bonus: draw around the wound site/redness to see if the redness spreads beyond the pen/marker.
Red-flag signs after a head injury that mean it's an emergency, not just "a bump"
One pupil bigger than the other, repeated vomiting, or worsening confusion.
What is the different betwen heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
Heat Exhaustion: heavy sweating, feeling weak, dizzy, or sick to your stomach
Heat Stroke: Worse than exhaustion, someone stops sweating, their skin feels hot and dry, and they seem confused
The F.A.S.T test can help you determine if someone is having a stroke. What does F.A.S.T stand for?
Face: get person to smile, check if one side doesn't smile
Arms: get person to lift both arms, check if one droops
Speech: get person to speech, check if slurring
Timing: call 911 asap
What are body-wide signs that an infection has become serious
fever, chills, or feeling very weak/sick
This is the type of fracture that is a bigger emergency and is visible.
Bonus: If there is bleeding associated with this fracture, how can we control the bleeding?
An open fracture ( bone breaking through skin)
Bonus: Apply direct pressure around the bone, not directly on it.