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Try out your first aid knowledge on this quick quiz:
1. Your child has burnt his hand with boiling water. What would be the best course of action?
- Rub it with butter or oil to ease the pain
- Run it under cool water until the pain goes away and then take the child to the doctor if the burn is large or serious
- Pour more hot water on it
- Freeze the hand with ice
Answer: Run the hand under cool water until the pain mostly goes away. If the burn is still very painful, is larger than their palm, or is chared or blistered, take them to the doctor or hosital.
Butter and oils seal in the heat and cause more tissue damage. Hot water will increase the burning and ice may cause damage by cooling the skin too quickly.
2. The best way to treat a minor cut would be to:
- Smother it with iodine cream
- Leave it alone
- Wash it with soap and water and cover with a dry dressing
Answer: Small cuts can be washed with normal soap and water and covered to keep out dirt and infection. Heavy iodine solutions may cause damage in fresh wounds. Leaving a wound open initially may let infection in, especially if you are working or playing outside or in a dirty environment.
3. If someone is bitten by a snake, what is the best treatment?
- Wrap a compression bandage around the bite and then bandage from the furtherst part of the limb back towards the body. Rest and immobilise the part.
- Cut the bit and suck the poison out
- Use a shoelace as a tourinquet
- Get the person to run to the nearest doctor
Answer: Place a bandage of the bite and then bandage from the tip of thee limb. Rest the person and immobilise the limb with the bite.
Sucking the poison out is dangerous and exposes the rescuer to the poison. Touriquets, especially thin ones, cut into the skin and cause tissue damage by stoping too much circulation.
Snake poison is spread through the lympatic system through muscule movement so keeping the person still is very important.
4. How much to you tilt the head of a baby when you perform Expired Air Resuscitation (mouth to mouth)
- As far as it will go
- Just a little bit
- None at all
Answer: babies have very short windpipes so they naturally have an open airway when they are lying flat on their back.
Also babies have weaker spines which have not fully developed. Becuase of these factors, NO head tilt is used whenresuscitating a baby.
5. If you have a cadriac arrest (ie your heart stops) outside of a hospital, what is your chance of surviving in Australia?
Answer: 2%. Very few people survive cardiac arrest outside of a hospital. This is because few people know CPR or are willing to have a go at it.
It is crucial to survival that people learn CPR and are willing to try it. The chance of surviving a chardiac arrest frops by 10% every minute that there is no action.
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Revised: March 28, 2004