Memorize First Aid Protocols: ABCDE, CsABCDE and CABD in 41 Flashcards

Deck JY5989 — "First Aid: Common Injuries & Poisoning" promises injuries and poisoning. Read all 41 cards and neither shows up: no burns, no fractures, no sprains, no bleeding-control technique, no antidotes. What you get instead is a compact protocol-and-vocabulary deck — the mnemonics, the emergency definitions, and the terminology a responder is expected to recognise. Worth memorising; it just needs a different study plan than the title suggests.

What the 41 cards really cover

You will drill: the Three Ps (preserve life, prevent further harm, promote recovery), the five general steps, ABCDE, CsABCDE, CABD, Check-Call-Care, the European protection-evaluation-alerting sequence, CPR, the AED, agonal breathing, the recovery position, carotid and radial pulse checks, the 10-second assessment window, GCS under 8, head-tilt and chin-lift, back slaps, chest thrusts and abdominal thrusts, infant anti-choking, cardiac arrest, haemorrhage, choking, drowning, hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia, myocardial infarction and its risk factors, stroke, first aid kit contents, the white-cross-on-green symbol, the Geneva Conventions and the red cross, plus wilderness, battlefield, oxygen and mental health first aid, the Esmarch bandage and William Hawes (1773).

Ten cards from the deck

Do not run it alongside First Aid Essentials

Thirty-six of these 41 backs restate cards already in the 83-card deck NP3515. Only two facts are new: the definition of drowning, and the five-minute brain-damage rule. Sequence them, do not stack them. JY5989 is the shorter path through the protocol soup — run it first as your core pass, then move to NP3515 for the expansion (AMEGA, SAFE-POINT, ATLS and BATLS, the Rautek manoeuvre, the 3Bs/4Bs system) and suspend the duplicates on day one.

Two cards to repair before your first session

Card 27 tells you to hyperextend the head to lift the tongue clear. Card 38 tells you to move a suspected spinal injury as little as possible. Both are right, and the deck never reconciles them: write the missing card — with suspected spinal injury you minimise tilt, and for infants you do not tilt the head back at all.

Cards 28 and 31 carry the identical back ("a white cross on a green background"), which makes reverse review unanswerable. Delete one and use the slot for the technique the deck defines but never teaches: haemorrhage is defined on card 8, yet nothing tells you to apply firm direct pressure to the wound.

Build one decision card

Seven overlapping protocols in 41 cards is the real difficulty. Collapse them into one card you write yourself: unresponsive and not breathing normally goes to CABD; trauma with massive bleeding goes to CsABCDE; systematic patient assessment goes to ABCDE; a lay responder on any scene goes to Check, Call, Care. Recall the trigger, not the letters.

Deck code JY5989, 41 cards. Find it in your library on Flip It.

Keep going: Learn First Aid Essentials: 83 Flashcards on ABCDE, CPR and the Recovery Position · Emergency Medicine Study Guide: 47 Flashcards on EMTALA, ED Errors and Global Certification Routes