Term
| What are the 3 objectives to First Aid? |
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Definition
| Prevent further injury, infection, and the lost of life. |
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Term
| What are the 4 methods of controlling bleeding? |
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Definition
Direct pressure
elevation
pressure points
tourniquet (use as last resort) |
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Term
| How many pressure points are there on the body? |
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Definition
| 11 pressure points on both side of the body making a total of 22 |
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Term
| Name the 11 pressure points on the body? |
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Definition
Superficial temporal (temple)
Facial (jaw)
Common carotid (neck)
Sublavian (collar bone
Brachial (inner upper arem)
Brachial (inner elbow)
Radial/Ulnar (wrist)
Femoral (upper thigh)
Iliac (groin)
Popliteral (knee)
Anterior/posterior tibial (ankle) |
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Term
| How many classifications of burns are there? |
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Definition
3
First degree
Second degree Third degree |
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Term
| What are the affect of a First degree burn? |
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Definition
| Redness, warm and mild pain |
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Term
| What are the affect of a Second degree burn? |
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Definition
| Red blistered skin and severe pain |
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Term
| What are the affect of a Third degree burn? |
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Definition
| Destroys tissue, skin and bone, pain maybe absent due to nerve ending begin destroyed |
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Term
| What are the two types of fractures? |
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Definition
Closed/simple or
Open/compound |
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Term
| Describe a closed/simple fracture? |
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Definition
| Broken bone with no break in skin |
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Term
| Describe a open/compound fracture? |
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Definition
| broken bone with the brone protruding out of the skin |
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Term
| How many types of heat related injuries are there? |
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Definition
2
Heat exhaustion and Heat Stroke |
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Term
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Definition
| Disturbance of blood flow to the brain, heart and lungs |
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Term
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Definition
| a break down in the sweating mechanism of the body |
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Term
| What are the 3 types of cold weather injuries? |
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Definition
Hypothermia
Supericial frostbite
Deep frostbite |
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Term
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Definition
| general cooling of the whole body cause by low or rapidly falling tempertures |
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Term
| What is Superfical frostbite? |
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Definition
| Crystal forming in the upper skin layers after exposure to a temperture 32 dgrees or lower |
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Term
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Definition
| Crystal forming in the deep tissue after exposure to a temperture 32 dgrees or lower |
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Term
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Definition
| life threating condition from insufficient blood flow throughout the body as a result of severe injury |
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Term
| What causes septic shock? |
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Definition
| bacteria multiplying in the blood and releasing toxins |
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Term
| What causes Anaphylactic shock? |
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Definition
| A type of severe allergic reaction |
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Term
| What causes Cardiogenic shock? |
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Definition
| the heart is damaged and cannot supply sufficient blood to the body |
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Term
| What causes Hypovolemic shock? |
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Definition
| severe blood and fluid loss which make the heart unable to pump enough blood to the body |
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Term
| What causes Neurogenic shock? |
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Definition
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