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Bronze Medallion
Bronze Medallion
ABCs
Always
A - airways
B - breathing
Sample
A - allergies
M - medication
E - events leading to
Fast - Stroke
A - arms
S - speech (drunk)
Semi prone
Shock
Warts
T - treatment
P - preserve life
P - promote recovery
● no wire (electrical)
● no fire
● no glass
● no gas
● Assess victim - act upon the situation
● Try and help if possible
Choking
Heart Attacks
Treatment
● Assess responsiveness, maintain and open airway and asses the victims breathing.
Start CPR if needed
● Contact EMS.
● Assist the victim into a comfortable position
● Help the victim take his or her angina medication as per the 2 low dose of ASA
(aspirin), chew or let it dissolve, unless the victim is allergic to ASA or has been
advised by a doctor not to take ASA tablets. (Sexually enhancing drugs - viagra)
● Loosen tight clothing around the neck and chest
● Treat for shock - WARTS
● Give oxygen if you are trained
Bleeding
Red
E - elevate
D - direct pressure
Major gash: stab wound, bullet wound, and big cut (life threatening)
Bites
Burns
● minor
● treat with cold or aloe
● cold compress
● Burns upper thin layer of skin
● Hot to the touch - very sensitive
3rd degree burns: burns through all layers of the skin, lose sensation, colours from red -
black
Rice
R - rest
Seizures
Helping them
● protect head (hold head at back or use blanket in first aid kit)
● Semi prone - lay on side so they don’t choke from frothing of the mouth - all you can
do
Diabetes
● diabetic emergency
● Look for bracelet identifying diabetic condition
● two types - type one and two
● Hypoglycaemia - not enough sugar
● Signs and symptoms
● Pale, cold and clammy skin
● Restlessness and weakness
● Fear and anxiety
● Confusion and disorientation
● Weak rapid pulse
● Shallow rapid respiration
● Cyanosis of the lips and fingernails
● Give them juice box
● Treat for shock
● call 911 if situation doesn’t improve
Poisoning
● Narcan spray, - unconscious and non breathing, will bring someone off high, may be
violent
Frostbite
● pain
● Altered sensation (burning, pins and needles, numbness)
● White area on skin
● put in warm water not hot
● Put in blanket warm up with body heat, armpits knees
Hypothermia
Allergies
AVPU - Scale
P - Pain (trying to wake them up - not alert or responding verbally) (pinch earlobe, bone on
eye or neck, patient will roll away)
3 ps
Preserve life, prevent further injury and promote further recovery (a)
Before you assist with first aid you must follow the proper protocols by first
Poisonous gas, smoke, suffocation and drowning may result in breath difficulty caused by
Asthma is a breathing disorder in which airway sensitivity is increased the sensitivity results
in
Spasms of the airway of the airway muscles and increased production of mucus (c)
A drowning victim may experience symptoms up to 72 hours after the event due to
For victim experiencing chest pains what can you give them
Shock is
Used for any form of major bleeding on any part of the body (d)
Secondary assessment
30:2 (d)
Grandma weakness in left leg and left arm, anxious and disoriented