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Note: The number in the parenthesis in some questions indicates how many answers you are required to give. Also take note of the units for answers such as blood pressure, breathing rates, pulse rates, etc. For answers refer to your notes.

1. What is first aid?
2. What is the normal breathing rate of an infant? (1)
3. What is the normal breathing rate of a child? (1)
4. What is the normal breathing rate of an adult? (1)
5. Differentiate respiratory arrest from respiratory distress. (2)
6. How would you recognise respiratory arrest? (3)
7. What are the causes of respiratory distress? (5)
8. How would you recognise if someone is having respiratory distress? (3)
9. What is choking?
10. What causes choking? (2)
11. How could you tell if a person is choking? (3)
12. What is CYANOSIS?
13. Give four causes of severe asthmatic attack? (4)
14. How do you recognise a severe asthmatic attack? (3)
15. What do you do if someone is suffering from a severe asthmatic attack? (3)
16. Define hyperventilation.
17. What do you do when a person is hyperventilating? (3)
18. How do you recognze hyperventilation? (4)
19. Describe arterial bleeding (3).
20. Describe venous bleeding. (3).
21. Describe capillary bleeding. (2)
22. Write down ALL the different types of wounds and describe each.
23. Write down how you treat each type of wound.
24. How many vertebrae does our spine have?
25. How many cervical vertebrae does our spine have?
26. How many thoracic vertebrae does our spine have?
27. How many lumbar vertebrae does our spine have.
28. How many sacral vertebrae does our spine have? What is the other name for fused sacral vertebrae?
29. How many coccygeal vertebrae does our spine have? What is the other name for fused coccygeal vertebrae.
30. Define shock.
31. What are the causes of shock? (6)
32. How do you treat shock? (5)
33. What are the causes of hyperventilation? (3)
34. Define unconsciousness.
35. What are causes of unconsciousness? (9)
36. What are the three "Don'ts'' when treating an unconscious casualty? (3)
37. Define fainting.
38. What are the causes of fainting? (6)
39. What do you do when someone faints? (4)
40. What are fits? What is its other name? (2)
41. What are the causes of fits? (4)
42. How do you recognize fits? (6)
43. What do you do when someone is having a fit? (4)
44. What are the three "Don'ts" when helping a casualty throwing a fti? (3)
45. What are the signs and symptoms of epileptic fits? (4)
46. Describe febrile fits.
47. Differentiate hypoglycemia from hyperglycemia. (2)
48. What are causes of hypoglycemia? (2)
49. What causes hyperglycemia? (2)
50. What do you do when someone is hypoglycemic? (4)
51. What do you give to a hyperglycemic person? (1)
52. What are the causes of stroke? (3)
53. How do you recognize stroke? (2)
54. Differentiate Brain Concussion from Brain Contusion. Give an example for each. (4)
55. Differentiate Closed fracture from Open Fracture (2)
56. Differentiate Sprain from Strain. (2)
57. What is the RICE procedure for Soft tissue injury. What are examples of Soft Tisssue injury.
58. What causes cramps? (5)
59. How do you treat cramps? (2)
60. Describe Superficial Burns. (2)
61. Describe Partial-Thickness Burns (3)
62. Describe Full-thickness Burns. (4)
63. The severity of a burn depends on? (4)
64. How do you measure the area of a burn in adults, infants and children? (3)
65. What do you do to a burning casualty? (4)
66. *What is the purpose of wrapping the casualty with a big sheet of material and rolling him on the ground? (To cut off oxygen supply..fire needs oxygen to grow.)
67. How do you treat Superficial and Partial-Thickness Burns? (3)
68. How do you care for an amputated body part? (3)
69. What are the two "Don'ts" when caring for burns? (2)
70. How do poisons enter the body? (4)
71. Describe bee and wasps stings. (4)
72. What is the treatment for bee and wasp stings? (4)
73. What are nematocysts?
74. How do you treat Jellyfish stings? (4)
75. What are the symptoms of snake bites? (4)
76. How do you treat snake bites? (7)
77. What is the general normal body temperature? (1)
78. How do you treat heat cramps? (4)
79. How do you recognize heat exhaustion? (7)
80. What do you do when casualty is suffering from heat exhaustion? (4)
81. Describe heat stroke. Why is it fatal?
82. What do you do when a casualty is having heat stroke? (4)
83. What is the correct order for the chain of survival? (4)

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