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First Steps in First Aid: Training Packages For Health Emergencies

This document outlines the steps for providing standard first aid according to an established training program. It describes performing a primary assessment of circulation, airway, and breathing followed by a secondary assessment examining all body regions for injuries. The objective is to properly assess an injured person and identify any life threats.

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First Steps in First Aid: Training Packages For Health Emergencies

This document outlines the steps for providing standard first aid according to an established training program. It describes performing a primary assessment of circulation, airway, and breathing followed by a secondary assessment examining all body regions for injuries. The objective is to properly assess an injured person and identify any life threats.

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Kylah Joy Bautista
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FOR HEALTH EMERGENCIES

First Steps in First Aid

Standard First Aid


(SFA)
11/23/21 1
Objective
• Apply the PROPER INITIAL GENERAL
APPROACH to providing care to the
injured

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First Steps in First Aid

• Scene size-up

• Primary assessment

• History

• Secondary assessment

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Scene size-up

• Survey the scene


• Move patient to safest area
• Check for the consciousness of the patient
(Introduce yourself to gain patient and
By- standers’ trust).
• Call for help
(Ex: Mr Red , kindly call for an ambulance
then come back to me)

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Primary assessment

• Circulation

• Airway

• Breathing

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Circulation

• Skin - color: reddish? whitish? bluish?


- clammy? sweaty? very dry?

• Pulse - at the side of the


base of the thumb

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Airway

• Able to speak / cry = open airway

• Note quality of speaking / crying

• Open the airway (Module 2)

• Remove obstructions

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Breathing
• Check for signs of breathing (NOT > THAN10
SECONDS!)
• Feel the flow of air
against your cheek

• Hear the flow of air

• See the chest rise


and fall

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History
• Chief complaint
• History of the chief complaint
• Pain assessment
• Onset
• Allergies
• Medical history and medications
• Next of kin

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Secondary assessment
• To monitor victim’s condition; identify
specific injuries
• Head and neck
• Shoulders, chest and back
• Arms and hands
• Abdomen
• Hips
• Legs and feet

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Secondary assessment
• Head
• Sunken areas
• Blood or fluid on the
surface
• Blood or fluid
coming out of ears
• Confused? Difficulty
speaking? Difficulty
walking?

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Secondary assessment
• Neck
• Sides, back of neck
• Painful, tender or
deformed  immobilize

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Secondary assessment
• Shoulders
• Examine collar
bone area
• Push down
shoulders

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Secondary assessment
• Chest
• Evenness
• Movement during
breathing
• Wounds
• Pain

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Secondary assessment
• Back
• Feel along the spine, ribcage

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Secondary assessment
• Arms and hands
• Deformities
• Pain

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Secondary assessment
• Abdomen
• Evenness
• “Board-like”
feeling
• Pain

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Secondary assessment
• Hips
• Compress gently
• If pain on compression
 DO NOT rock!
• If no pain on
compression  push
down gently in a
rocking motion

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Secondary assessment
• Legs and feet
• Feel for deformity
or pain
• Shortening, rotation
• Normal, painless
movement of
each foot
• Obvious injuries

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