Emergency Medical Care Flashcards
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What is the best initial method to control most external bleeding?
Answer: Apply direct pressure to the wound
Direct pressure is the first and most effective method to control most external bleeding.
When is a tourniquet indicated for an extremity injury?
Answer: When direct pressure fails to control life-threatening hemorrhage
A tourniquet is used when direct pressure cannot stop severe, life-threatening extremity bleeding.
Which signs are most characteristic of hypovolemic shock?
Answer: Pale, cool, clammy skin with rapid weak pulse
Shock from blood loss causes pale, cool, clammy skin with a rapid, weak pulse.
How should you position a patient showing signs of shock who has no spinal injury?
Answer: Supine and kept warm
Lay the shock patient supine, keep them warm, and treat the underlying cause.
A patient has an object impaled in the abdomen. What is the correct care?
Answer: Stabilize the object in place and bandage around it
Leave an impaled object in place and stabilize it to avoid further internal damage and bleeding.
What is the recommended care for a severed body part (amputation) being transported with the patient?
Answer: Wrap it in moist sterile gauze, seal in a bag, and keep cool
Wrap the part in moist sterile dressing, bag it, and keep it cool but not directly on ice.
Why should dressings soaked with blood generally not be removed?
Answer: Removing them can disrupt forming clots and restart bleeding
Add new dressings on top, because removing soaked ones can tear away clots and renew bleeding.