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Scenario: cadet colapses


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Scenario Overview:
You are working will a 16 yr old cadet first aider and she suddenly goes pale. You ask if she is OK but she insists she's fine then after being pale for about 5 min she collapses onto a piece of broken glass that penetrates her lower abdomen (she falls onto her front).
Difficulty:
First Aider Moderate
How the scenario should progress:
You roll her onto her back and place direct pressure onto her wound (the glass stayed into the ground). You call for back up then realise her pulse drops so you monitor this. When backup arrives you perform an exam on her to check pupil reactivity that comes out normal.
Patient 1:
Name:     Age: 16    Sex: Female
Medication: None Known
Allergies: eggs
Past medical/family/social history: has epilepsy and asthma but none of these came into play today
Findings on examination: she has a 4 cm deep wound to her left lower abdomen and she stays unconscious for 3.5 mins
Possible treatment from first aiders: apply pressure to the wound and call an ambulance also make sure to reasure the patient
Time after start: 1 2 3 4 4.5 5
Response: alert unresponsive unresponsive unresponsive alert alert
Airway: yes yes yes yes yes yes
Breathing? yes yes yes yes yes yes
Respirations: deep shallow shallow shallow shallow shallow
Pulse: normal weak weak weak weak normal
Pain Score: 0 0 0 0 0 0



Tips for the patient actors:
Be quite slow at responding in the start then collapse. When you come around complain of the pain from the glass cut.

Scenario submitted by: emmastone23