Learn how to recognize and respond safely to common injuries, illnesses, and life-threatening emergencies until professional help arrives.
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Cover heat and cold illness, poisoning, drowning, bites and stings, and first-aid adaptations for children, older adults, and pregnancy.
32 total questions
Card #1
What are the signs of heat exhaustion, and how is it treated?
Card #2
How do you recognise heat stroke, and why is it an emergency?
Card #3
What are the signs of hypothermia, and how do you treat it?
1. During a long hot run, an athlete develops painful spasms in both calves but otherwise feels well. What is the appropriate care?
2. Rescuers find a severely hypothermic climber who is barely conscious. Why must the climber be moved and handled especially gently?
3. A family in a poorly ventilated cabin all develop headaches, nausea and dizziness the same evening, easing when they step outside. What should you suspect?
1. Hospitals treat serious venomous snake bites with a medicine called ___.
Hint: Made using the venom itself
2. Ticks can transmit ___ disease, whose early sign is often a spreading bullseye-shaped rash.
Hint: Named after a town in Connecticut
3. ___ is a viral disease spread by the bite of an infected animal, almost always fatal once symptoms begin.
Hint: Why animal bites abroad need urgent vaccination
