Gr9 First Aid Assessment – Questions

Please highlight your answer on the multiple choice questions.

1. What should you do to help someone who‘s having an asthma attack? (1-2)

Help the person sit in a comfortable position and take their medication.

Help the person sit in a comfortable position and breathe into a paper bag.

Advise the person to do some stretches and run around the block.

2. If someone is bleeding from a wound, what can you do to help? (1-2)

Let the blood drain out.

Put pressure on the injury.

Tie a tourniquet above the injury.

3. What is the most important thing to do to help someone who has a burn? (1-2)

Wrap the burn in cling film or a clean plastic bag

Wipe the burn with antiseptic wipes

Cool the burn under cold running water

4. What is the international phone number for emergency services? (1-2)

122

112

000

911

5. What should be done for a firmly embedded foreign object in a wound? (3-4)

Remove as soon as possible

Leave in place and seek further medical attention

Remove after 10 minutes

6. If someone seems distressed because of an emergency situation, what is the first thing you should do to help? (3-4)

Give them a hug and then take them to the doctor

Show you are listening and calmly ask how you can help

Ignore them and hope they improve

7. What should you do to help someone who is choking? (3-4)

Encourage them to breathe through their nose

Help them drink some water to dislodge the object

Hit them firmly on their back between the shoulder blades

8. You’re walking home and you see a man lying on the ground. You ask him if he’s all right but he doesn’t respond. What should you do next? (3-4)

Leave him to wake up by himself

Begin CPR

Check his airway is clear

Check his breathing

9. What is the first priority at the scene of an accident or emergency? (3-4)

To check the casualty’s pulse

To check for danger to yourself and others

To check the casualty’s medical history

To call an ambulance

10. If someone is unconscious and breathing, how do you help keep their airway open? (5-6)

Roll them on their side and tilt their head back.

Lie them on their front and tip their head back.

Make sure nothing is obstructing their nose.

11. If you start compressions on someone, you must continue until: (5-6)

You can’t be bothered anymore

The ambulance arrives

The person has no pulse

The person turns blue

12. What type of injury is a cut from broken glass likely to inflict? (5-6)

Laceration

Incision

Abrasion

Contusion

Puncture

13. What do the letters R & B stand for in the acronym D.R.A.B.C. stand for? (5-6)

Response, Bleeding

Response, Breathing

Respiration, Bleeding

Respiration, Breathing

The next scenarios are 7 – 10 level. Please use your knowledge to give in depth answer to show your understanding of the topic.

Scenario A (7-8)

A friend has fallen over in a PE lesson and they are holding their ankle and say they are in pain. 

What do you do to help them ? and what advice do you give them for the next 1-3days ?

Scenario B (7-8)

A group of you are at a friend’s house making sandwiches in the kitchen. One of your friends is slicing tomatoes with a kitchen knife. Suddenly, her hand slips and she drops the knife. It lands point down in her bare foot. The cut starts bleeding quite a lot and the knife stays stuck in her foot.

What do you do to help her? Decide on three things you should do.

Scenario C (9-10)

You’re at a party. Quite late on, you and your friend see someone collapse onto the floor. You go over to him and realise he’s breathing but he doesn’t answer when you ask if he’s ok. He’s lying on his back. The people he’s with tell you not to worry about him, he’s just drunk. 

What do you and your friend do to help him? Decide on what you should do. 

Scenario D (9-10)

You’re having a barbeque with some friends at your house. Some of them are messing about and one of them ends up falling and landing with his bare arm buried in the hot coals of the barbecue. He pulls his arm out, screaming. It’s badly burnt and he’s in a lot of pain. 

What do you and your friends do to help him? Decide on what you should do?

Level	Strand H  : Healthy and Active Living Standard: The student will apply the knowledge and understanding to take actions to promote health and well-being. The student will demonstrate an understanding of being physically active and apply concepts that contribute to healthy and active living.
I	Does not reach a standard of any descriptor below.
1-2	Applies and demonstrates limited understanding that promote health and well being
3-4	Applies and demonstrates a basic level of understanding that promote health and well being
5-6	Satisfactory in applying knowledge and understanding that promote health and well being
7-8	Competent in applying knowledge and understanding that promote health and well being
9-10	Consistently competent in applying knowledge and understanding that promote health and well being

Recognising an emergency

It is normal to feel hesitant and unsure about what to do.

Simple actions can help save a life. 

Good Samaritan laws help protect people who voluntarily give care. 

Always obtain consent. 

Consent is implied when the person is unconscious or unable to respond, confused, mentally impaired, seriously injured or seriously ill, or the person is a minor with a life-threatening condition and a parent or guardian is not present. 

Give emergency care according to your level of training. 

Risk of disease transmission in medical emergencies is very low.

Whenever possible, however, use barriers and other protective measures to protect yourself as well as the injured or ill person. 

Your own thoughts and experiences on barriers to act are important and you are not alone. Everyone encounters barriers to act before deciding to help

Choking 

•Incomplete:

•Can still get air (making noise)

•Encourage to cough it up

•Complete:

•No noise, may go unconscious

•Back slaps (5)

•Between shoulder blades

•Abdominal thrusts (5)

•Pushing upward on diaphragm

•Between each cycle check for obstruction and clear if possible.

Asthma

•Condition where lungs spasm and airways narrow

•Signs: wheezing, prolonged exhale, coughing, difficulty talking

•Treatment:

•Keep them calm

•Use BLUE inhaler

•Try to breathe slowly and deeply

•Get medical treatment

Hyperventilation

•Can be linked to Panic attack

•Fast breathing, dizziness, feeling faint, tremors

•Treatment:

•Remove the stressor

•Remain calm, encourage them to be calm

•Take them somewhere quiet, and encourage slow deep breaths

•Focus on slow breathing using counted breaths, breathing through a tube, breathing with you.

Anaphylaxis

•Systemic allergy which causes airway to swell shut

•Impaired breathing, blotchy rash, anxiety, swelling

•Treatment:

•Epi Pen: if they have one, have them administer it

•Immediate medical care

CPR Review

•Check for Danger and Response

•Head tilt chin lift

•Look Listen and feel

•Landmark: Centre of chest, even with nipple line

•Heel of hands, straight arms

•30 compressions, 2 breaths

•Push to the beat of Stayin’ Alive

•Adults: Call EMS right away

•Children: 5 minutes of CPR first, then call (or get bystander to call if not alone ASAP)

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