1. Environmental Health & First Aid
Mr. Fisher

2. Environmental Health

3. Environmental Health TYPES OF POLLUTION -----
Ear carbon monoxide Littering toxic
music ground Recycle Vent
FACTOR
CAUSE
WAYS TO PREVENT
 Pollution
 ___________________
 -____________________or throw things away
Noise
Pollution
 Headphones, ________________, gunshots, power equipment (lawn mowers, chainsaws, jackhammers, etc.)
 -_________________ protection
-Consider others
Water
 Water runoff & _________________ dumping
 -Keep toxic chemicals off ___________________, before rain
-Don’t pour down drain
 Air
 Indoor/outdoor smoke, ___________________________ (the silent killer)
 -Fire, smoke & carbon monoxide detectors
-_________________ house often
Littering
Recycle
music
Ear
toxic
ground
carbon monoxide
Vent

4. First Aid

5. First Aid HOW DO YOU CARE FOR . . . . 1. Are Bitten by a Snake
a. Don’t __________________ the affected area, and stay _______________ to reduce the venom flow.
b. Take a ___________________ of the snake or mental note of identifying ___________________.
c. DO NOT: apply __________________________, cut ________________ around the wound, or attempt to remove the ___________________.
2. Suffer Electric Shock
a. If you are _______________________ out, there’s nothing you can do.
b. Do not __________________ the person if they’re still connected to the source, but you can use a nonconductive material such as a ___________________ to break the contact.
move
calm
picture
details
tourniquet
skin
venom
knocked
touch
shoe

6. First Aid 3. Something in Your Eye
a. DO NOT: rub your ________, use a ___________ finger, Q-tip or ______________ and make sure you __________ your hands before touching.
b. Irrigate (which means ____________) the eye and lean forward or hold your top and bottom __________ open
c. See an _________ care professional to make sure everything is ok.
4. Come Down with a Cold or Flu
a. The two R’s: _______________________ & ______________________________ are very important.
b. NSAID= ____________________ for pain and fever relief.
c. DO NOT ______________ a cold and feed a _____________________.
d. ________________________________ only kill bacterial infections, not __________________________.
eye
dirty
tweezers
wash
rinse
eyelid
eye
Resting
Rehydrate
Ibuprofren
starve
fever
Antibiotics
viruses

7. First Aid 5. Sprain Your Ankle
a. You want to immobilize the injured area or make a _______________ using your surroundings if possible, DO NOT try to __________________ the joint.
b. Seek __________________________ treatment.
c. The R.I.C.E. method is good here where,
R=_______________________________
I=_______________________________
C=_______________________________
E=_______________________________
6. Have a Nosebleed
a. Lean slightly _____________________.
b. Pinch nostrils for ______________ minutes, stay calm.
c. You can always apply _____ to the bridge of your nose if it doesn’t stop.
d. _________________ blowing your nose or you can add a saline rinse and seal it with _______________.
splint
reset
medical
Rest
Ice
Compress
Elevate
forward
5-15
ice
Avoid
Vaseline

8. First Aid
7. Suffer a Burn
a. Three types of burns- _________, __________, & ___________ degree.
b. You should call 911 if you have burns to the ________________, feet, ______________, mouth or groin or if more than _____% of your body is burned.
c. First and small second-degree burns should run under ________________ water for _________ minutes.
d. Don’t put ice, _______________ or ointment on the burned skin, cover with a _____________ compress.
e. Cover __________________ with a sterile covering.
f. DO NOT ______________ blisters or _____________ affected skin.
8. Have a Heart Attack
a. Call ____________
b. Chew but don’t swallow an
________________________.
c. Don’t try to _______________ to the
hospital.
d. You can perform hands-only
______________ at a rate of ____________
compressions per minute.
1st
2nd
3rd
hands
face 1
cold 10
butter
moist
loosely
break
peel
911
aspirin
drive
CPR
100

9. First Aid 9. Lose a Permanent Tooth
a. You could try to reinsert the tooth: _________________ it gently, and DO NOT handle the ______________. Use a ________________ to align it and push it into place and then _______________ down on a cloth or gauze.
b. If you can’t reinsert it, place in either a cup of ________________ or in between your __________________ and gum and see a ___________________.
10. Lose a Limb (or suffer a serious cut)
a. Call ______________ and apply direct ____________________ to the wound (or just above it) with a cloth.
b. Stay _____________ so you reduce blood flow.
c. If the cloth soaks through, ________________ another on top of it rather than pulling it off the ________________.
d. You could apply a __________________________ if necessary.
e. Collect the severed __________________ and wrap it in _____________________ with ice, but DO NOT put it directly on the _______________.
rinse
root
mirror
bite
milk
cheek
dentist
911
pressure
calm
place
wound
tourniquet
limb
plastic
ice

10. First Aid Emergency Care C.P.R. C.P.R. stands for . . . . C P R 3 C’s=
C.P.R. stands for
C P R
3 C’s=
C C C
A, B, C’s=
C A B
ardio ulmonary escuitation
heck all are
irculation irway reathing