First Aid Videos
Each Scouts BSA unit is required to have at least one leader trained in Wilderness First Aid on back country trips. This certification needs to be repeated every two years and typically takes two days. The following videos are useful for reviewing elements of these courses between the courses and also to add some additional details and skills.
Assessment and Basics
CPR/AED
Bleeding
Musculoskeletal
Other
Scout Training
Abbreviations
- ABC - Airway, Breathing, Circulation
- AED - Automated External Defibrillator
- ABCDE - Approach, Assess, Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Deformity, Environment
- AMPLE
- Allergies
- Medications
- Previous injury or illness
- Last input and output
- Events leading up to the crisis
- AVPU
- Alert (1-4)
- Responsive to Verbal
- Responsive to Pain (e.g., using sternum rub)
- Unresponsive
- BSI - Body Substance Isolation precautions
- CMS - Circulation, Motion, Sensation
- CPR - Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
- CSMs - Circulation, Sensation, Motion
- CTM - Color, Temperature, Moisture (assessment of skin)
- HR - Heart Rate
- LOC - Level Of Consciousness
- MOI - Mechanism Of Injury
- RR - Respiration Rate
- SAMPLE
- Signs and symptoms
- Allergies
- Medications
- Past medical history
- Last food or drink
- Events leading up to the incident or the Environment in which the incident took place
- SOAP (as in SOAP note)
- Subjective
- Objective
- Assessment
- Plan
Patient Assessment System
From May 2023 SOLO Wilderness First Aid course at Treasure Valley Scout Reservation.
- Scene Survey - MOI, your safety, patient safety, everyone's safety, general impression of situation's seriousness
- Primary Survey - ABCDE
- Approach, Assess (LOC), Airway
- Breathing
- Circulation
- Deformity
- Environment
- Secondary Survey
- History of the present illness
- Vital Signs
- Patient Exam
- Medical History (AMPLE)
- Patient care plan (SOAP note)
- Rescue Survey
- What is your plan to get help?
- Who is being sent for help?
- Protect the patient while waiting for help
- Protect yourselves while waiting for help
- Scene safety
- Re-SOAP every 15 minutes
Page updated 4/13/23
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