What are the Aims of First Aid?
Preserve Life, Save Life, Do Necessary Emergency Surgery
Promote Recovery + Preserve Life
Preserve Life, Prevent Deterioration, Promote Recovery
Prevent Deteroration
When should you contact a vet in an emergency?
As Soon As Possible (Get Another Person to Call if you can)
When Dog is Dead
As Soon As Possible (Get someone else to call if you can) but concentrate on stabilizing dog first.
Fill in the missing step... 1 Stay Calm 2 Assess for Danger 3 Airway 4 Breathing 5 Circulation 6 ❌ 7 Treat Other Injuries 8 Get History, Known Medical History and Make Notes of what happened. 9 Call Vet
When would you start resuscitation?
When Dog is not breathing
When Dog is unconcious
When Dog has no heart beat
All of the above
Resuscitation keeps the blood and oxygen circulating around the body to the brain and internal organs.
An easy way to remember the order to check the dog before starting resuscitation is...
123
DA-DE-DI
ABC
Tail-Nose
When checking the Airway is clear. Foreign Objects, Blood, Vomit and even Saliva can cause a blockage.
What are the two main important factors when checking breathing?
Respiration Rate and Temperature
Respiration Rate and Eye Colour
Respiration Rate and Chest Injury
Respiration Rate and Oxygen Levels
When checking circulation, as well as pulse rate what else can help determine if circulation is good?
Pinch Test
Punch Test
HRT Test
CRT Test
What is the normal respiration rate for dogs? (range small dogs - big dogs)
20 - 70 breaths per min
10 - 30 breaths per min
40 - 65 breaths per min
50 - 80 breaths per min
What is the normal pulse range for dogs? (small dogs - big dogs)
60 - 180 beats per minute
40 - 100 beats per minute
90 - 120 beats per minute
50 - 70 beats per minute
When performing Artificial Respiration on a Dog, where do you breath air into?
Mouth
Nose
Which side should be uppermost when performing Cardiac Massage on a dog?
Left
Right
It Doesn't Matter
How Far Into The Dogs Chest Should You Compress when performing Cardiac Massage?
1/2 (Half Way)
1/4 (A Quarter)
1/3 (A Third)
How many compression per minute (during cardiac massage) should you aim for if it's a large dog?
40
20
60
80
How many compressions (during cardiac massage) per minute should you aim for if its a small dog?
100
120
What's the ratio for Cardiac Massage?
10 Compressions - 4 Breaths
15 Compressions - 7 Breaths
5 Compressions - 1 Breath
7 Compressions - 3 Breaths
