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Priorities when treating a casualty
- Emergency CPR
- Management of Choking
- Life threatening bleeding
- Unconcsious breathing casualty
- Shock
- Medical Attention
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Chain of Survival
- Early recognition
- Early CPR
- Early AED
- Post-resusitation Aftercare
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Asphyxia
when the body is deprived of oxygen
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Cardiac Arrest
When body has stopped pumping blood around body
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Problems with CPR
- Tracheostomies - blow into hole
- Being sick
- Air in Stomach - improve airway
- Broken ribs
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AED is used for
- Ventricular Fibrillation - abnormal, fast, irregular bear
- Scans heart rhythms
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Priorities of First Aid
- Preserve Life
- Alleviate suffering
- Prevent Situation getting worse
- promote casualty recovery
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Difference between symptoms/signs
- symptoms - what casualty tells you
- signs - what you can see
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Treatment for heart attack
- call 999
- W position
- Loosen clothing
- Reassure
- Be prepared to use CPR
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Shock def
failure of circulation which leads to inadequate supply of blood to vital organs
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Shock treatment
- raise legs
- loosen clothing
- treat cause of shock
- reassure
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Asthma def
- when muscles of air passage go into spasm and mucus builds in airway
- causes breathing difficulties and wheezes
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Asthma treatment
- reassure
- comfortable position
- enocourage inhaler
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Treatment for anaphalactic shock
- call 999
- breathing - sitting up
- faint lay down with legs up
- use epi pen
- monitor breathing
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Bleeding
- Capililary - blood will trickle
- Veinous - blood will ooze
- arerial - blood will spurt
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Complicated fracture def
injury to major blood vessels or organs
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Greenstick fracture
fracture on a flexible bone
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Treatment of fracture
- Keep cas in position found
- Immobilse
- Cover exposed wound
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Treat Sprain
- RICE
- rest
- ice
- comfortable
- elevate
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Pentating chest injury signs/symptoms
- hear air sucked into chest
- blue/grey skin
- frothy coughed up blood
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Pen chest injury treatment
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Blunt force trauma
- Symtpoms - pain, shock, internal breathing
- Treatment - 999, sit, keep weight off injury, be prepared for CPR
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Flail chest
- Multiple broken ribs
- painful breathing, fracture sgns, difficulty breathing
- paradoxical chest movevment
- call 999, sit, take weight of the arm of injury, be prepared for CPR
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Diabetes def
disturbance in body's blood sugar
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diabetes symptoms/signs
- HYPERglaemia -
- rapid pulse
- drowsiness
- thirst
- sweet breath, warm dry skin,
HYPOglacemia - rapid pulse, faint, confusion, pale skin, sweating, shallow breathing
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diabetes treatment
sit down, sugary drink, call 999 if necessary
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seizure treatment
- objects out of the way
- protect head
- loosen clothing
- time seixure
- call 999 if last longer than 5, 2nd seizure happens, 1st time seizure
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