Foods and Nutrition 1021 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Avpu, Pneumothorax, Asthma

• School: Western University
• Department: Foods and Nutrition
• Course: Foods and Nutrition 1021
• Professor: Noelle Martin

Document Summary

The following red headings are done in order while dealing with an emergency. One of the more important parts of dealing with emergencies, it is the biggest piece for sport and other emergencies! Spine board, hypothermia blankets etc: training doesn"t matter how good your plan is, you need to be trained on how to use it (eap and equipment, environment know this, will change the equipment and eap. You need to do these things to be safe. This is looking at a patient/multiple patients and identifying their needs, determines how fast we should do something, how sick they are etc. Mass casualty deal with the worse cases first (cid:498)if you can stand up go over there(cid:499) (cid:498)if you can sit up, or say something then do so(cid:499) Used to save lives: airway, breathing, circulation, disability, exposure/environment. Checking at both the mouth and the neck (c-spine)