American Red Cross Responding to Emergencies Exam Questions with Correct Answers
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Emergency - Answer-a situation requiring immediate action.
First aid - Answer-Information and skills so that you will recognize and respond to any emergency appropriately by knowing how to give care to a person with an injury or sudden illness until more advanced care can be obtained.
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American Red Cross Responding to
Emergencies Exam Questions with
Correct Answers
Emergency - Answer-a situation requiring immediate action.
First aid - Answer-Information and skills so that you will recognize and respond to any
emergency appropriately by knowing how to give care to a person with an injury or
sudden illness until more advanced care can be obtained.
Injury - Answer-Damage to the body from an external force.
Sudden illness - Answer-A physical condition requiring immediate medical attention.
Life-threatening emergency - Answer-An illness or injury that impairs a person's ability
to circulate oxygenated blood to all the parts of his or her body.
Non-life-threatening - Answer-A situation that does not have an immediate impact on a
person's ability to circulate oxygenated blood but still requires medical attention.
(EMS) Emergency Response System - Answer-A network of community resources and
medical personnel that provides emergency care to people who have been injured or
are experiencing sudden illness.
Lay responders - Answer-A layperson a person who does not have special or advanced
training but who recognizes an emergency and decides to act.
Recognizing an emergency - Answer-Unusual noises, sights, odors, appearances and
or behaviors.
Barriers to Act - Answer-Panic or fear of doing something wrong
Being unsure if the person's condition and what to do
Assuming someone else will take action
Type of injury or illness
Fear of catching a disease
Fear of being sued
Being unsure when to call 911 or the local emergency number
Good Samaritan Laws - Answer-Laws that protect people who willingly give first aid
without accepting anything in return.
6 ways a bystander can help at the scene of an emergency - Answer-Bystanders can
help at the scene of an emergency by calling & then meeting and directing the
,ambulance, keeping the area free of unnecessary traffic, or giving first aid. Bystanders
can go for additional supplies or give comfort to others on the scene. Bystanders may
be able to give you important information about the person or what happened.
Is immediate danger involved - Answer-Do not move a seriously injured person unless
there is immediate danger involved.
Signals of life-threatening injuries - Answer-Unconsciousness
Trouble breathing,
Absence of bleeding.
Severe bleeding.
When to call 911 first before giving care - Answer-An unconscious adult or adolescent
age 12 or older.
A witnessed sudden collapse of a child (1-12 years of age) or infant under 1.
An unconscious child or infant known to have heart problems.
Care first, provide 2 minutes if care, then call911 - Answer-An unconscious person
younger than 12 years of age who you did NOT see collapse.
Any person who had a drowning incident.
First aid guidelines - Answer-Child=someone between the ages of 1 and 12.
Infant=someone younger than 1.
Adult=someone about age 12 (adolescent) or older.
What information you or a bystander should have when calling 911 - Answer-Exact
location of the emergency (address, house number, mile marker, landmarks, name of
town, cross streets)
Telephone number and address where call is being made.
Caller's name.
What happened
Number of people involved .
Person's condition and care being given
Emergency action steps- the three basic steps you should take in any emergency. -
Answer-Check - the scene and the person.
Call- 911 or the local emergency number.
Care - for the person.
Top priority in an emergency situation - Answer-Ensure your own safety
Disease transmission - Answer-The passage of a disease from one person to another.
Pathogen - Answer-Bacteria or virus
How Bloodborne pathogens spread - Answer-A pathogen is present.
,There is sufficient quantity of the pathogen present to cause disease.
The pathogen passes through the correct entry site.
A person is susceptible to the pathogen.
Direct contact transmission - Answer-Mode of transmission of pathogens that occurs
through directly touching infected blood or body fluids, or other agents such as
chemicals, drugs or toxins.
Indirect contact transmission - Answer-Mode of transmission of pathogens that occurs
when a person touches objects that have the blood or body fluids of an infected person
and that infected blood or body fluids enters the body through a correct entry site.
Standard precautions - Answer-Safety measures taken to prevent exposure to blood
and body fluids when giving care to injured or ill person's assumes that all body fluids
secretions and excretions except sweat or potentially effective
Personal protective equipment - Answer-The equipment and supplies that help prevent
the responder from directly contacting infected materials includes gloves, gowns,
masks, shields, and protective eyewear
To obtain consent - Answer-Identify yourself to the .
Give your level of training.
Ask the person whether you may help.
Explain what you observe.
Explain what you plan to do.
Expressed consent - Answer-Permission to receive emergency care granted by a
competent adult either verbally or nonverbally, or by gestures also referred to as
consent. If the person is a child or infant consent to give care must come from the
parent or guardian. If the person refuses care or withdrawals consent at anytime you
should still call 911.
Implied consent - Answer-Legal concept that assumes a person would consent to
receive emergency care if he or she were physically able or old enough to do so. This
includes people who are unconscious or unable to respond confused mentally impaired
seriously injured or seriously ill.
Refusal of care - Answer-The declining of care by competent person the person has the
right to refuse the care of anyone who responds to an emergency .
Abandonment - Answer-Ending the care of an injured or ill person without obtaining that
person's consent or without ensuring that someone with equal or greater training will
continue care. Once you have started emergency care you are legally obligated to
continue that care until a person with equal or higher training relieves you, you are
physically unable to continue or the person refuses care
, One of the most dangerous threats to a seriously injured or ill person - Answer-
Unnecessary movement
You should move the person only when you can do so safely and only in one of the
following situations - Answer-When you're faced with immediate danger such as fire
lack of oxygen risk of explosion or a collapsing structure.
when you have to get to another person who may have a more serious problem.
If the surface or space is inadequate. Example if the person was on a bed CPR must be
given on a flat firm surface
The following limitations to moving one or more persons quickly and safely - Answer-
Any dangerous condition at the scene
The size of the person.
The distance the person must be moved.
Your physical ability.
whether other bystanders can help you.
the person's condition any aids or equipment to facilitate moving the person at the
scene
Guidelines when moving a person to protect yourself and the person - Answer-Use your
legs not your back when you bend.
Bend at the knees and hips and avoid twisting your body.
Maintain a firm grip on the person.
walk forward when possible taking small steps and looking where you were going.
avoid twisting or bending anyone with a possible head neck or spinal injury.
Do not move a person who is too large to move comfortably.
The six common types of emergency moves that can be done by one or two people and
with minimal to no equipment - Answer-Walking assist - The most basic emergency
move. One or two responders can use this method with a conscious person.
Two person seat carry -
Pack-strap carry
Clothes drag - can be used to move a conscious or unconscious person suspected of
having a head neck or spinal injury.
Blanket drag - used to move the person is an emergency situation when equipment is
limited
Ankle drag - to move a person who is too large to carry or move in any other way.
Cells - Answer-The basic units to combine to form all living tissue
Tissues - Answer-A collection of similar cells acting together to perform specific body
functions
Organ - Answer-A structure of similar tissues acting together to perform specific body
functions.
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