First Aid

When a person is severely bleeding you cover the wound with gauze and...

• pull the gauze back and check for healing

• continue to add gauze if the wound bleeds through the first layer

• place an ice pack on wound

• give them aspirin

What does RICE stand for?

• Relax, Ice, Compact, Elevation

• Rest, Ice, Compact, Education

• Relax, Incline, Compression, Education

• Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation

which is the highest degree for burns?

• First degree

• Second degree

• Third degree

• None of these answer

what to do when you have a burn?

• Remove the clothing that is stuck on the burn quickly

• Always wash the affected area

• Cover with a cream

• Depends on the degree

What is first aid?

• Initial care until first responders arrive.

• Sometimes should involve calling 911

• Designed to keep the injured or sick safe until help arrives

• All of the above

When a victim has swallowed a poison

• Call poison control

• Use the Heimlich maneuver

• Use PASS

• Use RICE

Hypothermia (body temperature too low) looks like

• shivering, blue lips, numb or tingling extremities, sleepiness

• red skin all over, sweating, sleepiness

True or False: cuts deeper than the first layer of skin may need stitches.

• True
• False

What are first degree burns?

• Go into subcutaneous layers of skin
• Sunburn
• Not painful

How would you manage a deep, bleeding cut on the palm of the hand from a safety knife?

• Hold the injured hand under cold running water.

• Apply a pressure immobilization bandage to the arm.

• Apply direct pressure to the cut, elevate the arm, then bandage the hand.

• Shame them for not wearing their gloves!