Elements and Performance Criteria
- Assess casualty and develop management plan
- Assessment of casualty is undertaken including vital signs, details of incident, medical/casualty history, physical appearance and other signs and symptoms
- Management plan is developed taking into account available equipment, condition of patient and special requirements of certain conditions
- Where possible casualty is assisted to a comfortable position suitable for implementation of management plan
- Casualty is encouraged and reassured as necessary to facilitate effective treatment
- Medical aid is arranged as soon as possible consistent with maintaining casualty safety
- Check equipment
- Pre-use check of safety and potential effectiveness of equipment is undertaken in accordance with operating procedures, Australian standards and regulatory requirements
- Minor faults are diagnosed and repairs are carried out in accordance with organisation procedures to restore equipment to working order
- Faults and defects are reported/recorded according to organisational procedures
- Maintain unobstructed airway
- Airway is cleared and maintained using non-intervention techniques where possible
- Appropriate steps are taken to reduce risk to self or others of contamination by the casualty's body fluids
- Where carried, suction apparatus is safely inserted into pharynx and suction initiated using approved techniques to avoid injuring casualty
- Resuscitate casualty
- Use oxygen to provide therapy
- Recover and restore equipment