First Aid Pre-Test
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1. What is an emergency?
2. What is first aid?
3. Nam the four indicators to help you recognize an emergency.
4. What is the Good Samaritan Law?
5. Name the three emergency action steps.
6. When you enter the scene what is your first action.
7. What is the number one rule when providing care?
8. For first aid, at what age are you considered an adult?
9. An infant is someone younger than?
10. What is disease transmission?
11. Name two ways in which a pathogen can enter the body.
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12. How can you minimize the risk of disease transmission?
13. What is implied consent?
14. What is aspiration?
15. Name the technique for opening a victim’s airway?
16. What conditions are considered life-threatening?
17. How do you check for consciousness?
18. When checking an unconscious victim, what three things are you checking for?
19. Where do you check for a pulse on an infant?
20. Name two signals of shock.
21. Name three common signals of a heart attack.
22. What is the difference between cardiac distress and cardiac arrest?
23. What does CPR stand for?
24. How many compressions and breaths for adult CPR?
25. What does AED stand for?
26. How do you care for a conscious heart attack victim?
27. What is the difference between an anatomical airway obstruction and a mechanical airway
obstruction?
28. What is a breathing emergency?
29. Name two signs of respiratory distress.
30. What care is given to an adult conscious choking victim?
31. Name the two techniques to clear an infant airway obstruction.
32. What is a hemorrhage?
33. How do you care for severe external bleeding?
34. What is a tourniquet?
35. Give an example of a closed wound.
36. Name three types of open wounds.
37. If an object is embedded and/or impaled in the victim, what should you do with the object when
providing care?
38. Name three types of burns.
39. What is the difference between a fracture and a dislocation?
40. What does R.I.C.E. stand for?
41. To immobilize an extremity what should you use?
42. What is the care for a victim having a seizure?
43. What is a stroke?
44. Name the four ways poison can enter the body.
45. What is anaphylaxis?
46. Name three insects that can cause bites or stings.
47. What is Frostbite?
48. What is the difference between heat exhaustion and heat stroke?
49. What is the care for hyperthermia?
50. How do you care for a victim that has drowned?