First aid Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

31. What is the first thing you should do for someone you suspect has an electrical burn?

1. Check for breathing and a pulse
2. Check to see if electricity is turned off
3. Check for severe bleeding
4. Check for shock

32. What should be your first concern at the scene where a person has been seriously burned?

1. Checking the scene for safety
2. Checking the victims breathing and pulse
3. Calling your local emergency phone number
4. Cooling the burned area

33. Which is not a symptom of heart attack.

1. Chest pain
2. Red, hot or dry skin
3. Pale or bluish in color
4. Profuse sweating

34. When should you give rescue breathing?

1. Conscious choking victim
2. Unconscious choking victim
3. Unconscious, no pulse, not breathing
4. Unconscious, not breathing, but has a pulse

35. A student on your bus has been hit in the mouth and a tooth was knocked out you should

1. Control the bleeding and have student bite down on a rolled sterile dressing in the space left by the tooth
2. Save the tooth by placing it in milk or water
3. Wrap the tooth in a dry tissue and give to student to take to dentist
4. Both a and b

36. What symptoms are associated with heat exhaustion

1. Cool, moist, pale, or flushed skin
2. Rapid weak pulse
3. Rapid, shallow breathing
4. All of the above

37. Your check of the scene suggests that a victim has suffered an electrical shock. The first thing to do is

1. Cover all burns with a dry loose dressing
2. Ask a bystander to help you move the victim
3. Place the victim on one side with the head down
4. Make sure the power is turned off

38. A 15-year-old boy has just splashed a chemical on his face. After sending someone to call for an ambulance, you would

1. Cover the burned area
2. Have the victim stay calm until ambulance arrives
3. Flush the burned area with large amounts of water until the ambulance arrives
4. Immediately drive the victim to the hospital

39. To care for a victim with a sucking chest wound, you would?

1. Cover the wound completely with a sterile gauze pad
2. Cover the wound with a dressing that doesnt allow air to pass through
3. Apply ice pack to the wound
4. Both a and c

40. A student on your bus has a severe cut in the groin area, what do you do?

1. Cover the wound with a sterile dressing applying direct pressure
2. Elevate the students feet and apply a sterile dressing to the wound, apply pressure to groin area
3. Drive the bus to the nearest hospital or fire station
4. Cover wound with sterile dressing & apply pressure to femoral artery pressure