First Aid and CPR: Special Situations and Safety

Self-Check: Special First Aid Situations

Now, you try. Complete the self-check activity by looking at each first aid treatment, thinking about the cause for why you would apply that treatment and what the purpose is. Click on "hint" to review the explanation.

First Aid Treatment	Cause?	What is the purpose?
Open a window	HINT: Inhaled poison	HINT: Replenish oxygen
Do not induce vomiting	HINT: Caustic ingested poison	HINT: Can damage passage ways
Induce vomiting quickly	HINT: Ingested drugs (only)	HINT: Only if conscious, and directed to do so by poison control, before drugs get to bloodstream
Call poison control	HINT: Any kind of poisoning	HINT: For specific directions on how to proceed
Remove harmful objects in room	HINT: Seizure	HINT: Prevent injury
Do not put anything in the mouth	HINT: Seizure	HINT: Prevent injury to victim or rescuer
Look on container for information	HINT: Poisoning	HINT: To provide information to paramedics and rescuer
Check for medic alert	HINT: Anaphylactic Shock	HINT: To get information for treatment
Ask for injection kit	HINT: Anaphylactic Shock	HINT: To provide treatment
Rescue breathing	HINT: Unconscious victim with anaphylactic shock	HINT: To force air through closed airway

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