PHED 193 — STANDARD FIRST AID AND SAFETY
Learning Objectives & Matches
Demonstrate how to control external bleeding.
Clamp, ligate, or cauterize blood vessels to control bleeding during surgical entry, using hemostatic clamps, suture ligatures, or electrocautery equipment.
Draw blood from veins by vacuum tube, syringe, or butterfly venipuncture methods.
Draw blood from capillaries by dermal puncture, such as heel or finger stick methods.
Organize or clean blood-drawing trays, ensuring that all instruments are sterile and all needles, syringes, or related items are of first-time use.
Perform venipuncture or skin pricking to collect blood samples.
Administer blood and blood products, monitoring patients for signs and symptoms related to transfusion reactions.
Make incisions in arms or thighs and drain blood from circulatory system and replace it with embalming fluid, using pump.
Administer blood and blood product transfusions or intravenous infusions, monitoring patients for adverse reactions.
Join lips, using needles and thread or wire.
Identify correct anatomical and proportional point locations based on patients' anatomy and positions, contraindications, and precautions related to treatments, such as intradermal needles, moxibustion, electricity, guasha, or bleeding.
Recognize the signs and symptoms of a heart attack.
Check victims for signs of life, such as breathing and pulse.
Perform or evaluate the results of diagnostic tests, such as radiographs (x-rays) and electrocardiograms (EKGs).
Observe patients' vital signs to assess physical condition.
Perform tests by following physician instructions.
Check, test, and maintain cardiology equipment, making minor repairs when necessary, to ensure proper operation.
Monitor patients' blood pressure and heart rate using electrocardiogram (EKG) equipment during diagnostic or therapeutic procedures to notify the physician if something appears wrong.
Use a variety of testing techniques to assist doctors in cardiac or pulmonary research or to diagnose disorders.
Interpret information obtained from electrocardiograms (EKGs) or radiographs (x-rays).
Conduct or order diagnostic tests such as chest radiographs (x-rays), microbiologic tests, or endocrinologic tests.
Conduct stress tests, using electrocardiograph (EKG) machines.
Identify how to care for a heart attack.
Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and other condition-stabilizing interventions.
Check victims for signs of life, such as breathing and pulse.
Respond to emergency situations by providing airway management, administering emergency fluids or drugs, or using basic or advanced cardiac life support techniques.
Check, test, and maintain cardiology equipment, making minor repairs when necessary, to ensure proper operation.
Perform first aid or cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) when required.
Assist with patient resuscitation during cardiac arrest or other life-threatening events.
Provide emergency care, such as artificial respiration, external cardiac massage, or assistance with cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Administer post-anesthesia medications or fluids to support patients' cardiovascular systems.
Provide emergency or other appropriate medical care to participants with symptoms or signs of physical distress.
Provide emergency first aid and summon medical assistance when necessary.
Describe the role and importance of early defibrillation in cardiac arrest.
Assist with patient resuscitation during cardiac arrest or other life-threatening events.
Perform first aid or cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) when required.
Provide emergency care, such as artificial respiration, external cardiac massage, or assistance with cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Perform emergency resuscitations on patients.
Respond to emergency situations by providing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), or pediatric advanced life support (PALS).
Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and other condition-stabilizing interventions.
Examine injured persons and administer first aid or cardiopulmonary resuscitation, if necessary, using training and medical supplies and equipment.
Perform medical procedures, such as administering oxygen, inserting and removing airways, taking vital signs, or giving emergency treatment, such as first aid or cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
Respond to emergency situations by providing airway management, administering emergency fluids or drugs, or using basic or advanced cardiac life support techniques.
Administer emergency first aid, such as performing emergency resuscitation or other life saving procedures.