Cards (22)

  • First Aid - Is immediate help provided to a sick or injured persons until professional medical help arrives or become available.
  • Disease Transmission - Infectious disease are those that can spread from one person to another through the following ways:
    1. Direct Contact
    2. Indirect Contact
    3. Airborne transmission
    4. Bites
  • Primary Assessment
    1. Assessing Responsiveness
    2. Activate Medical Help
    3. Airway
    4. Breathing
    5. Circulation
  • Primary Assessment
    Assessing Responsiveness - A patient’s response level can be summarized in the AVPU.
    A = Alert
    V = Responsive to Voice
    P = Responsive to Pain
    U = Unresponsive/Unconscious
  • Primary Assessment
    Activate Medical Help - Ask someone to call for local emergency number.
  • Primary Assessment
    Call First
    • If you are alone, it is important to know when to call during emergency.
    • The situations are likely to be cardiac related, where time is critical factor.
  • Primary Assessment
    Care First - The situations or conditions often related to breathing emergency.
  • Primary Assessment
    Airway - An open airway allows air to enter the lungs for the person to breathe.
  • Primary Assessment
    Breathing - While maintaining an open airway, quickly check an unconscious person for doing the LLF technique for 10 seconds.
  • Primary Assessment (Circulation)
    1. Bleeding
    2. Shock
    3. Skin color, temperature, and moisture
  • Primary Assessment (Circulation)
    Bleeding
    • Quickly look for severe bleeding by looking over the persons body from head.
    • Signal such as blood-soaked clothing or blood spurting out of a wound.
  • Primary Assessment (Circulation)
    Shock
    • If left untreated, shock can lead to death
    • Always look for the signals of shock you are giving care
  • Primary Assessment (Circulation)
    Skin color, temperature, and moisture - Assessment of skin temperature, color, and condition can tell you.
  • Secondary Assessment - If an injured or ill person is not in an immediate condition, you can begin to check for other conditions that may need care.
  • Interviewing
    • The person and the bystander.
    • Checking the person head to toe.
  • First Aid at Home
    Home Remedies for Fever
    • Paracetamol, mefenamic acid
    • 500 mg every 4 hours (adult)
    • 15-20 mg per kilo every 4 hours (children)
  • First Aid at Home
    Home Remedies for Fever in children
    • Lukewarm Bath
    • Hydration
    • Ample rest
    • Resting in a cool place
  • Remedies for Burns
    Types of Burns:
    1. Thermal
    2. Electrical
    3. Radiation
    4. Chemical
  • Degree of Burns
    • First Degree
    • Second Degree
    • Third Degree
  • Degree of Burns
    First Degree (skin surface)
    • Reddening of the skin
    • Hot to touch
  • Degree of Burns
    Second Degree
    • Blister formation
  • Degree of Burns
    Third Degree (full thickness)
    • Sloughing of the skin
    • Exposure of the subcutaneous tissue and muscles