First Aid

One morning you find your older sister and you think she is unresponsive and breathing. Aside from calling for help, what is your priority in this situation?

• Find out what has happened to her

• Put her in the recovery position and monitor her until help arrives

• Call someone and get them to help you

Someone is unresponsive and not breathing and you call 999, should you….what?

• tell the call handler as much information as possible and hang up

• answer the call handler’s questions as fully as possible and stay on the phone until help arrives

• give the call handler a quick summary of what’s happened and hang up straight-away

After you’ve moved a person who is unresponsive and breathing into the recovery position, you should…what?

• sit with but do not touch the person again. If they move, it is just them starting to wake up

• leave the person alone now they are comfortable, they’ll wake up soon

• stay with the person and keep checking their head is tilted back to allow them to keep breathing normally

If someone has a broken bone, which of the following statements is true?

• If you do not support the limb, the person will be able to move the limb more easily and reduce the pain

• If you do not support the limb, it doesn’t matter. The bone will just naturally heal on its own

• If you do not support the limb it may cause further injury and pain

When someone is bleeding heavily, what key action can you take to stop or slow down the bleeding?

• Tie a tourniquet above the wound

• Apply an ice pack to the wound

• Put pressure on the wound

• Clean the wound

If someone is unresponsive and breathing, what is the key action you can take to help them?

• Roll them onto their back

• Put them in the recovery position

• Get them into a chair

• Support them with your arms

What is your key action if someone is unresponsive and not breathing?

• Give chest compressions

• Raise their feet above their head

• Try to breathe into their mouth

• Put them into the recovery position

Which of the following statements about strokes is true?

• Strokes can affect either side of the body

• Strokes only affect the left side of the body

• Strokes only affect the right side of the body

• Strokes can affect both sides of the body at the same time

If a person is choking, which of the following should you use to give back blows?

• The heel of your hand

• A hard object

• Your fist

• Your fingers

If someone is choking, you give back blows between their shoulder blades. What does this do?

• It makes them sick, which creates pressure and pushes the object out of their airway.

• It makes them swallow air, which creates pressure and pushes the object down their airway.

• It creates a vibration and pressure, which pushes the object out of their airway