Thursday, February 24, 2011

Red Cross Responders: Scenario to Prepare for Skills Check

Skill: Impaled Object

Care or Call First Situation: This is a care first situation. If the wound is severe enough call 911 or take victim to ER.

Actual Scenario: Lisa is taking a a test her sharp pencil rolls off the desk. As Lisa reaches down to grab it the pencil bounces upward off of the chair and the momentum from her hand going down cause the pencil to impale her left palm.

How many victims, conscious or unconscious, sign of life, do the rescue breaths go in?

There is one conscious victim, there are signs of life. The victim needs the pencil and bleeding to be stabilized.

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