BB First Aid Week 1

Responsibilities of a First Aider

• Manages the patient promptly and appropriately

• Arranges for emergency services to attend if required

• Identifies the nature of the injury or illness as soon as possible

• All of the options above are accepted

How can you protect yourself from disease?

• Avoid contacting the victim's blood or other body fluids.

• Use protective equipment, such as disposable gloves and protective barriers, when giving care

• Both of these

• None of these

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

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

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

True or False: First aid is the care you give someone who is ill or injured before trained help arrives to take over.

• True

• False

After giving first aid you should put disposable equipment that has touched body fluids:

• In the trash can bag

• In the recycle bin for reuse

• Leave them where they are so you don't touch them

• In a Biohazard waste bag

Name the above type of dressing

• Gauze pad dressing

• Foam dressing

• Transparent film dressing

What are the purpose of dressings

• To prevent infection.

• To protect the wound from mechanical trauma

• Both of these

• None of these

Which situation might require CPR?

• Your brother falls from a tree and breaks his arm

• Your uncle passes out and stops breathing

• Your father cuts himself badly

• Your sister burns her hand on the stove

What item should be found in every first aid kit?

I -Scissors

II- Sim Card

III- Disposable Glove

IV - Watch

• I,II

• III,IV

• II,IV

• I,III

Why is it important to apply

antiseptic ointment to a cut?

• So the person doesn't feel pain while you treat the

  wound

• So the person stops bleeding quickly

• So the cut doesn't get infected by bacteria or viruses

• So a scar doesn't form at the site of the cut