First Aid Basics

(Study Guide)
Introduction
Define the following terms as you watch First Aid Basics or use your student workbook.

1. First Aid- is the immediate care that you give a person with an illness or injury before
rescuers with more advanced training arrive and take over
2. CPR- When person’s heart stops suddenly, receiving CPR can double or even triple the
chances of survival.
3. Responsive- when a person is responsive, speak, move, blink, or other wise react to you when
you tab them and ask, “are you okay”
4. Unresponsive- A person does not move, speak, blink, or otherwise react is unresponsive

5. AED- It’s a lightweight, portable device used to detect

abnormal cardiac rhythms that requires treatment. It can also
deliver electrical shock to convert the rhythms back to normal. 6.
Good Samaritan Law- If you have legal questions about
providing first aid, all states have Good Samaritan law that
protect anyone who gives first aid and CPR.
7. Universal Precautions-
8. PPE- Is a protection equipment like gloves, eye protection.
9. AHA -
10. Dressing-
11.Bandage
12.Manufactured tourniquet
13.Dehydration
14.Heat cramps
15.Heat exhaustion
16.Heat stroke
17.Frost bite
18.Hyperthermia
19.Hypothermia
20.Poison

1. How do you provide hand-only CPR? Provide Compression

2. How do you provide conventional CPR? Give breaths with a pocket mask
3. What is your role as a First Aid Rescuer? Recognize that an emergency exists, make sure
that the scene is safe for you and the ill or injured person, Phone 9-1-1, Provide care until
someone with more advanced training arrives and takes over.
4. What are the (2) categories of First Aid Kits?
a. Explain each category

Assess the scene

 1. When should you move an injured person? If the area is unsafe for you or the ill or
injured person, move to a safe location. If a person is unresponsive and breathing
normally, you can roll the person onto their side, this may help keep their way open in
case they vomit.
2. What are the steps to “moving an injured person?
3. When should you phone for 9-1-1? Whenever someone is ill or injured

Phoning for Help

1. How do you phone for help? First shout for help. If noy one answers and the person
needs immediate care and you have a cell phone, call 9-1-1 and put the phone on speaker
mode.
2. What information will help the emergency responder reach you more quickly?
3. What phrase is stated to access emergency help? When someone is unresponsive

Universal Precautions
1. What should your first aid kit include? PPE, eye protection, and medical gloves.
2. What does PPE protect you from? They help keep you safe from body fluid, such as
blood, saliva, and Urine
3. What type of gloves should you use? You should use the medical gloves.
4. What action should you take when a first aid kit is not available? Use something that
might help
5. What are the first aid actions for contact with body fluids? Use hand sanitizer or washing
hands with soap for 20 seconds

Removing Gloves
1. What are the steps for removing protective gloves? Grip on glove on the outside near the
cuff and peel it down until it come off inside out, then place 2 fingers of your bare hand
inside the cuff of the glove that is still on your other hand.
2. How should you properly dispose protective gloves? If there is blood on the gloves, then
you dispose the gloves in the biohazard waste bag.

Washing Hands
1. What should you do after immediately removing protective gloves? Use hand sanitizer
2. What are the steps to properly washing your hands? Wet your hands with clean running
water with soap, then rub your hand together and scrub all surfaces of hands and fingers
for at least 20 seconds, then dry your hands with paper tower then turn water using paper
tower
3.
4. What type of sanitizer should you use if you cannot wash your hands immediately?
Waterless sanitizer

Finding the Problem

1. What are the steps to finding the problem?
2. What are (2) common medical conditions?
3. Should you share private information learned about a victim other than emergency
responders?
 4. What are the steps for finding the problem?

Medical Emergencies
Allergic Reactions
1. List the symptoms of mild allergic reactions.
2. What can cause a severe allergic reaction?
a. List the signs of severe allergic reaction.
3. What device is used to treat allergic reactions?
a. How do you administer the use of the device?
4. When should you give a second dose of epinephrine?

Heart Attack
1. How often are heart attacks occurring in the United States?
2. What is one of the main signs of a heart attack?
a. What are other signs of a heart attack?
3. What is the difference between a heart attack and CPR?
4. List the first aid steps for heart attack.
5. What should you give a heart attack victim that can be a significant help in their quality
of recovery?

Stroke
1. Describe a stroke.
2. What acronym is used to identify warning signs of a stroke?
a. What does each letter represent
3. What are additional symptoms of a stroke?
4. List the first aid steps for a stroke.

Injury Emergencies
1. How often does a nonfatal workplace injury or illness occur?
2. What are the (2) factors that guide your care for bleeding?
3. List the first aid steps for minor bleeding.
4. What factors determine if bleeding is life-threatening?
5. List the first aid steps for external bleeding.
6. List life-threatening bleeding injuries.
7. What is the 1st step you should take when there is life-threatening bleeding?
8. When should you use a tourniquet?
a. List the steps for using a manufactured tourniquet (windlass).
9. When should you pack a wound?
10. What is the national awareness campaign and call to action that encourage bystanders to
become trained, equipped, and empowered to stop severe bleeding before professional
help arrives?
Environmental Emergencies
Bites and Stings
1. Compare and contrast animal bites vs. insect bites.
2. List signs of venomous snakebites.
3. List signs of venomous bites and stings.
4. List first aid steps for marine bites and stings.

Heat-related
1. List signs of dehydration
a. What is the best first aid for dehydration?
2. List the first aid actions for heat cramps.
3. List the signs of heat exhaustion.
a. List the first aid actions for heat exhaustion.
4. Compare and contrast heat exhaustion vs. heat stroke.
5. List the first aid actions for heat exhaustion.

Cold-related
1. What body parts does frost bite affect?
2. List signs of frost bite.
3. What are (2) “don’ts for frostbite?
4. What is another name for low-body temperature?
a. List signs
b. List the first aid actions for hypothermia

Poison
1. List first aid actions for a poison emergency
2. What does the acronym SDS stand for?
3. Who you should you phone is someone comes in contact with poison.
4. If an eye is affected, what are the first actions?
5. When should you use CPR