The Great Outdoors Revison

Tilting your head back will assist you in floating on your back in water

• True

• False

Who is the most important person in any emergency situation?

• Bystanders

• You

• Patient

If there are any fluids in the patient’s airways we roll them onto their side which is called the:

• Draining position

• Side position

• Lateral or recovery position

To check for breathing, we:

• Look

• Listen

• Feel

• All of the above

If the patient is breathing, what do we do?

• Go and have lunch

• Stay with them until the emergency services arrive

• Start giving them CPR

For an adult, we use two hands to perform compressions.

• True

• False

We stop CPR when:

• The emergency services arrive and take over from us

• Signs of life are present, i.e. breathing, coughing, vomiting

• We are physically exhausted and cannot do anymore

• All of the above

You hear something ‘crack’ while you are doing CPR. You:

• Stop doing CPR on the patient

• Check your hand position and continue doing CPR

• Continue doing only the breathing

Defibrillation can increase the chance of survival from 5% to over 70%.

• True

• False

A defibrillator will shock a patient who is breathing.

• True

• False