Providing First Aid for Specific Injuries & Sudden Illness

First Aid for injuries to the eye is to

• immediately remove the object embedded in the eye

• Obtain medical help

• have your parents remove the object

• do not worry about it

Signs and symptoms of a brain injury include ALL of the following EXCEPT:

• Alert and oriented

• unconsiousness

• Headache

• pupils unequal

Shoud we remove embedded objects?

• Yes

• No

How to manage nose bleeds?

• Applying direct pressure for at least 10 mins

• Head tilted to the back

• Applying direct pressure for 3 mins

• Lay down

What is the correct terminology for a wound in which a vacuum has been created within the chest, drawing air into the thorax with each breath?

• sucking chest wound

• closed tension pneumothorax

• open chest wound

• gurgling chest wound

When caring for a victim who has injuries to his abdomen resulting in the contents protruding to the outside you should push them back in.

• True

• False

What is another term for a nose bleed?

• rhinoplasty

• nasogastric

• epistaxis

• hemorrhage

How should you position a victim with a sucking chest wound?

• suspine

• flat on there back

• on the opposite side of wound

• on injured side

How should you position a patient with an abdominal injury?

• completely flat on there back

• flat on there back with something under the knees and head and shoulders slightly elevated

• on there left side to increase blood flow to the heart

• trendelenburg

With any type of injury you should always observe the patient for signs of

• injury

• alertness

• shock

• level of consciousness