Red Cross for respiratory distress

What is choking?

• Airway is partially or totally blocked by the foreign body or the tongue.

• Shortness of breath due to the narrowing of air passage.

• Sever cough due to dust and smoke.

What is Asthma?

• Airway is partially or totally blocked by the foreign body or the tongue.

• Shortness of breath due to the narrowing of air passage.

• Sever cough caused by dust or smoke.

How to recognize a person is suffering from choking?

• Universal Sign: putting the hands around neck.

• Difficulty in speaking and breathing.

• Face turning blue.

• All of the above.

How to recognize a person is suffering from Asthma?

• Difficulty in breathing

• Produces a Wheezing sound

• Unable to speak fluently.

• Both 1 and 2

What causes Asthma?

• Smoke and dust

• Allergies and cold air

• Exercise

• All of the above

What is the first thing to do when you see a person suffers from choking?

• Ask him to sit down comfortably.

• Do abdominal thrusts for the victim.

• Asking him/her to cough loudly.

How can you help the casualty who suffers from asthma?

• Call 995 immediately.

• Ask him to sit down and then take out the inhaler to administer the puffs by himslef.

• Administer the puffs for the casualty since you were there to help him.

Abdominal thrusts should only be done when the casualty is unable to cough the foreign objects out.

• True

• False

During emergency, we can borrow the inhaler from others if the casualty does not have his own inhaler with him.

• True

• False