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Red Cross First Aid Notes (Clemson First Aid Class Notes Into Flashcards For Final)
Red Cross First Aid Notes (Clemson First Aid Class Notes Into Flashcards For Final)
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Red Cross First Aid Notes (Clemson FirstAid Class Notes Into Flashcards For Final)
- Recognize emergency
- Decide to act
- Call 911 when appropriate
- Provide quality medical care - ✔️4 duties of a first aid provider
- Not wanting to make situation worse due to lack of training.
- Bystander Effect
- Concern of exposing oneself to physical risks.
- Concern for legal ramifications. - ✔️Reasons people often don't step in
and act
Bystander Effect - ✔️thought that someone else will be able to provide
better care, and that you do not need to get involved.
- This course will give you training you need.
- Only about 20% of Americans have medical training, so you are likely the
only or one of the only people present that has the training necessary to help.
- We will talk about avoiding injury and using proper PPE.
- Good Samaritan's Laws. - ✔️Mitigating barriers to action
PPE - ✔️personal protective equipment
- Scene size up
- Is it safe for me to be here?
- Is the patient critical? - ✔️What do we do when we recognize an
emergency and decide to take action?
scene size-up - ✔️stop and take in as much information about the
scenario as possible for 10-15 seconds.
Care-first emergency - ✔️emergencies where time is so critical that it
would be advantageous to your patient for you to skip 911 and immediately
begin patient care.
, choking, excessive bleeding - ✔️examples of care-first emergency
Call-first emergency - ✔️any emergency that is not a care-first
emergency.
heart attack, stroke, broken bones - ✔️examples of call-first emergency
explicit consent - ✔️- consent necessary when patient is conscious and
can give consent.
- "Hi my name is ____, I am trained in First Aid, can I help you?"
implied consent - ✔️- consent for when patient is unconscious.
- imply that they are reasonable people who would want help and begin first
aid.
No - ✔️Does calling 911 require consent?
- get parent consent.
- if parents aren't present use implied consent. - ✔️Consent requirements
for when patient is under 18:
keep patient alive until we can hand them off to EMT or other medical care.
- ✔️Goal of emergency medicine:
A- Airway
B- Breathing
C- Circulation
D- Deformity
E- Environment - ✔️ABCDE of first aid:
choking - ✔️most common problem for first-aid responders
babies, elderly, drunk people - ✔️Most likely to choke:
- hands around throat
- choking noises
- skin going pale
- cyanosis
- panic in patient - ✔️Signs of someone choking:
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