What’s Your First Aid IQ?

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What’s Your First Aid IQ?

IntelliQuiz Staff - Published: September 23, 2015

It’s never a good day when you need to use first aid, but a good knowledge of the basics can help it from becoming an even worse day. Just a few simple decisions can save a whole lot of trouble. What’s YOUR first aid IQ?

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Question 1/10

Let's start out with the ABCs. What does "ABC" stand for in first aid?

Already Been Cared for
Always Be Cauterizing
Airway, Breathing, Circulation
Alpha, Bravo & Charlie

Question 2/10

Your friend is in the kitchen slicing carrots, and accidentally slices a bit of their own hand. How do you clean the wound?

Dab some aloe on it
With cold water
With hot water
With alcohol, peroxide, or iodine

Question 3/10

Where on the human body can you NOT find a pulse?

Hair
The neck
The upper thigh
The wrist

Question 4/10

How do you treat a first degree burn?

Fight fire with fire — apply fire
Fight fire with ice — apply ice
Fight fire with water - run the burn under cool water
Fight fire with prayer - pray for healing

Question 5/10

What is the fireman's carry?

Yelling for friends to help
Picking someone up across my shoulders, behind my neck
Dragging someone by their feet
Bringing a bag of donuts back to the firehouse

Question 6/10

When should you use a tourniquet?

Whenever there's slight bleeding
Tourniquets should never be used
Turn a what?
Only when I can't stop the bleeding in time to get to a hospital

Question 7/10

You're camping in the Amazonian jungle, and your friend is bitten by a vampire bat. What should you do?

Drive a wooden stake through my friend's heart. No sense in risking a vampire attack.
Perform CPR
Get out of there and get a rabies shot ASAP
Use a tourniquet so my friend doesn't bleed out

Question 8/10

Are you even qualified to be taking this quiz? Who can perform first aid?

Only a licensed doctor, nurse, or paramedic
Only a person's spouse or family member
Only the victim themselves
Anyone who knows what they're doing

Question 9/10

How fast should you perform chest compressions for CPR?

At whatever the person's natural heart rate is
About six beats per second
About 100 beats per minute
As fast as I possibly can

Question 10/10

And finally, what is an automated external defibrillator or AED?

A machine that can reverse bleeding
The big thing in hospitals with the two pads where they say "clear!"
Defibrillator? I hardly know her!
A machine that can identify and treat deadly cardiac arrhythmias

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What’s Your First Aid IQ?

What’s Your First Aid IQ?

Let's start out with the ABCs. What does "ABC" stand for in first aid?

Your friend is in the kitchen slicing carrots, and accidentally slices a bit of their own hand. How do you clean the wound?

Where on the human body can you NOT find a pulse?

How do you treat a first degree burn?

What is the fireman's carry?

When should you use a tourniquet?

You're camping in the Amazonian jungle, and your friend is bitten by a vampire bat. What should you do?

Are you even qualified to be taking this quiz? Who can perform first aid?

How fast should you perform chest compressions for CPR?

And finally, what is an automated external defibrillator or AED?

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