This is a continuation of the review chapter of the CERT class.

A category four hurricane as just struck your town. Your assigned by your incident commander/team leader to help conduct triage operations in an area of the neighborhood that has sustained damage arriving at the treatment area, you notice sections marked I, D, and M where victims were already been placed for treatment.

1. What do the markers indicate?

Minor, immediate, and dead.

You are directed to help with the immediate victims. A fellow team member ash you to put some clean water to wash soiled gloves. you know the supply team is on its way but could be of service hours away. Grabbing a bucket you run to a nearby stream for water.

2. What should you do to sterilize the water for medical use?

Mix one part bleach to 10 parts water.

Once you arrive back at the immediate treatment area with the water, the team leader explains that the victim has died. The team leader put you in charge of establishing the morgue.

3. How and where you set up the morgue?

Away from the all three treatment areas.

A few hours later, you return to the immediate area and asks your incident commander/team leader for a new assignment. She quickly explains that the area is overflowing with victims as you to help reform rapid head to toe assessments. While preforming your first assessment on a young adult male, you noticed swelling and deformity in the victim’s upper left arm. After you have finished your head to toe assessment, we try to feel for signs of the fracture but the victim cries out in pain before you get too far.

4. Though it is impossible to be sure out in the field, you should assume that?

The victim’s arm is broken.

5. You know that you need to split the injury to prevent further damage. How would you proceed with the splint?

Splint the injury as it lies, assessing PMS before and after this.

Just finishing up the splint on your young adult male victim, a woman who runs into the immediate treatment area holding a little boy and frantically calling out, “someone please help my son, he’s turning blue! I don’t think he can brave!” You turn  and run to help the woman. You ask the woman to put the son down you can help.

6. What is the first thing you should do?

Assess for airway, bleeding, and signs of shock.

While listening for long sounds, you notice that the boy is wheezing and his lips are blue. You cannot find anything of obvious obstructing his airway. As you glance down quickly at the rest of the boy’s body, you notice an angry red welt on his inner arm.

7. You have reason to suspect the boy is suffering from:

hypertension.

I will have to check my notes to see which of these answers need to be corrected.