Giving First Aid

1. Giving First Aid

2. Things to Remember! • Update your Table of Contents. -Date: 9/04/13 -Title of Assignment: First Aid Notes -Standards:7.1.S -Page #: Vocabulary Index (Include page #): Words to be included today first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), rescue breathing, abdominal thrusts, chest thrust, first-degree burn, second-degree burn, third-degree burn, fracture, dislocation. DO NOT copy what is in RED bold, only BLACK!! Anything in GREEN is a question for you to answer only.

3. The Steps of CPR • #1 Check Breathing: -Look inside the victim’s mouth. If you can see anything blocking the airway, remove it. Gently roll the person onto his/her back. Tilt the head back as you lift up the airway. Look, Listen, and Feel to find out if the victim is breathing. Look for the rise and fall of the chest. Place your ear next to the victim’s mouth and nose and listen for breathing. Feel for the exhaled air on your chest.

4. The Steps of CPR • #2 Rescue Breaths: • Keep the victim’s head and chin in proper position, pinch the person’s nostrils shut. • Place your mouth over the victim’s mouth, forming a seal. Give 2 breaths, each about one second long. The victim’s chest should rise each breath.

5. The Steps of CPR • #3 Chest Compressions: -Immediately after giving 2 rescue breaths, begin chest compressions. Give 2 rescue breaths after 30 chest compressions.

6. Performing Chest Compressions • Step #1: -Kneel to the victim’s chest. Place the heel of one hand on the center of the victim’s chest. Place the heel of the second hand on top of the first so that the hands are overlapped. Perform 30 chest compressions. Interlace your fingers with the fingers of the other hand. Do not allow your fingers to rest on the victim’s ribs.

7. Performing Chest Compressions • Step #2: -Kneel over the victim so that your shoulders are directly over your hands. Press straight down quickly and firmly at a rate of about 100 compressions per minute. Allow the victim’s chest to spring back between compressions.

8. Performing Chest Compressions • Step #3: -If the victim is still not breathing normally, give 2 rescue breaths every 30 compressions. Continue this cycle until the victim begins to move or until help arrives.

9. First Aid(CN) • First Aid • cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) • rescue breathing • abdominal thrusts • Immediate care given to someone who becomes injured or ill until regular medical care can be provided. • First-aid procedure to restore breathing and circulation. • First-aid procedure where someone forces air into the lungs of a person who cannot breathe on his her own. • Quick inward and upward pulls into the diaphragm to force an obstruction out of the airway.

10. First Aid(CN) • Chest Thrust • Fracture • Dislocation • Quick presses into the middle of the breastbone to force a obstruction out of the airway. • A break in a bone. • A major injury that happens when a bone is forced from its normal position within a joint.

11. First Aid(CN) • First-Degree Burn • Second-Degree Burn • Third-Degree Burn • A burn in which only the outer layer of skin has burned and turned red. • A moderately serious burn in which the burned area blisters. • A very serious burn in which all the layers of skin are damaged.

12. First Aid • Write a complete sentence for 2 of today’s vocabulary words.