Learn First Aid Essentials: 83 Flashcards on ABCDE, CPR and the Recovery Position
Master first aid protocols with 83 real flashcards: ABCDE, csABCDE, CABD, the Three Ps, recovery position, choking in adults and infants, AED use and kit contents.
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Most first aid training fails at the same point: people remember that something must be done, but not in which order. First Aid Essentials on Flip It (deck code NP3515, 83 cards) is built around that problem — roughly a third of the deck is nothing but priority protocols, because sequence is the skill.
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Nine cards from the deck
| Front | Back |
|---|---|
| Three Ps of first aid | Preserve life, Prevent further harm, and Promote recovery |
| What does ABCDE stand for in the general first aid protocol? | Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Disability, and Exposure (or Evaluate) |
| What does CABD stand for in cardiopulmonary resuscitation? | Circulation (or Chest Compressions), Airway, Breathing (or Rescue Breaths), and Defibrillation |
| What does 'cs' or 'x' stand for in csABCDE protocol? | Catastrophic bleeding (stopping massive external bleedings) and spine protection |
| Recovery position | Placing the patient laying on their side to relax them, clear the tongue from the pharynx, and avoid choking on regurgitated stomach contents |
| Agonal breathing | An abnormal breathing pattern that indicates the patient is not breathing normally and requires CPR |
| What Glasgow Coma Scale score indicates a patient may be unable to maintain their own airway? | A GCS of less than 8 |
| Internationally accepted symbol for first aid | The white cross on a green background |
| Anti-choking procedure for infants | Five strong blows on the upper back with the face along the aider's forearm, or chest thrusts with two fingers on the lower half of the middle of the chest |
| Rautek maneuver | A method for a single rescuer without instruments to carry a victim with suspected spinal injury, keeping head and back in the same position |
The full range of the 83 cards
- Protocols: ABCDE, csABCDE, CABD, the Three Ps, the five general steps, the European protocol, AMEGA (Assess, Make safe, Emergency aid, Get help, Aftermath), Check-Call-Care (Red Cross), SAFE-POINT, ATLS, BATLS, the 3Bs and 4Bs priority systems.
- Assessment and technique: shoulder-tap response check, the 10-second professional check, carotid and radial pulse, checking breathing ear-to-mouth while watching the chest, head-tilt chin-lift (and why not for babies), the tongue blocking the airway, Glasgow Coma Scale, when pulse checks are skipped entirely.
- Emergencies: cardiac arrest, myocardial infarction and its risk factors, stroke, choking, hemorrhage, hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia, spinal injury handling, AED use, back slaps, chest thrusts, abdominal thrusts.
- Kit and symbols: British Standard BS 8599 contents, the white cross on green, the Star of Life, the Maltese Cross, and why the red cross is legally restricted under the Geneva Conventions.
- Specialisms and history: wilderness, aquatic, battlefield, hyperbaric, oxygen, conflict, psychological and mental health first aid, the Esmarch bandage, and William Hawes publicising artificial respiration in 1773.
Two study tactics for this deck
Put the acronyms side by side instead of learning them one by one. ABCDE, csABCDE, CABD, AMEGA, SAFE-POINT and Check-Call-Care all encode the same emergency in different orders, and reviewing them separately guarantees you will mix them up. Write them as columns and note what each one moves to the front: csABCDE puts catastrophic bleeding and the spine first, CABD puts chest compressions first. The deck even explains why ABC became CABD — learn the reason and the sequence follows.
Tag every card with "who". The same question has different answers by patient. Choking: back slaps and abdominal thrusts for an adult, five back blows along the forearm or two-finger chest thrusts for an infant. Airway: head-tilt chin-lift for an adult, no head tilt for a baby. Sorting these pairs as you review stops the most dangerous kind of recall error.
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