PEDS240 Lecture : Jan 23 - Emergency Scene Management.doc

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Physical Education and Sport
• Course: PEDS240
• Professor: Brad Kern

Document Summary

Jan 23 lab 2 emergency scene management. If we didn"t see how the injury happened we can ask the athlete or bystanders. Body substance isolation wear latex gloves and a cpr mask to reduce risk of getting a disease. Assess hazards and make the area safe remember fire, wire, gas or glass. Bystanders can sometimes crowd around you but we can also use them to our advantage by getting them to call 911. )identify yourself as a first aider and offer help. Things to remember: write vitals on glove, don"t lose glove. So like a skate stone, a quickstick for repairing skates on the fly: keep your cool because no one else will. If hes unconscious, we would take a pulse at the carotid artery. We would take the hr for 10 seconds then multiply it by 6 to get bpm the radial is the best and most professional area to check for hr.