Stop the Bleed Tourniquet Training Questions

When analyzing the ABCs of Bleeding Control, the A stands for:

• Airway

• Auscultate

• Alert

• Activate

Signs of life threatening bleeding includes which of the following? Select all that apply

• Dizzy or unconscious injured person

• bandages or clothes soaked in blood

• blood that is squirting from the wound

• pooling of blood under or around the victim

• amputated limbs or severely separated limbs from the victim

Wounds that can lead to bleeding are often located in which of the following locations? SATA

• arms and legs

• torso junctional

• internal injury to chest or abdomen

• head

What are the 3 ways you are told to compress in the video?

• roll the patient on the wound to keep pressure

• hold pressure with clean cloth or guaze

• use a tourniquet above the wound or joint

• Pack the wound with any clean materials such as gauze or t-shirt

Your bleeding patient is complaining of pain after you have applied a tourniquet. In this case, you need to loosen the device and reapply for comfort.

• True

• False

Once you have direct pressure on the wound, hold in place for approximately 5 minutes. After 5 minute you may release pressure and pull the gauze up to see if the bleeding has stopped.

• True

• False

Once you have located the bleeding site and applied direct pressure, you should keep direct pressure held until EMS arrives.

• True

• False

If you patient is bleeding in their lower extremity, they can remain in a sitting position while you apply a pressure dressing to help you have access to the entire extremity for bandaging.

• True

• False

Uncontrolled life threatening hemorrhage is one of the leading causes of preventable deaths after traumatic injury.

• True

• False

If the wound is on the neck you

• apply a tourniquet

• apply pressure

• leave the victim alone

• pack the wound and apply pressue