Cardiopulmonary resuscitation – assessment of consciousness

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation – assessment of consciousness

Consciousness assessment will give you answers to some essential questions. Thanks to it, you will be able to properly deal with the injured party. It depends on the results of the assessment of the state of consciousness as you were told in erste hilfe kurs führerschein münchen moosach. Whether you leave our victim in the present position, assess his vital signs (ABC), put him in a safe position, start CPR after ABC assessment, or maybe we will go to a quick trauma examination.

The condition of the victim

The scale offered in erste hilfe kurs is a sequence of assessed responses to external stimuli, used to assess the patient’s state of consciousness.

Alert

The injured person is conscious, oriented to the place and time, knows what is happening around him. He/she is conscious and in logical contact, talks to you, and indicates problems. In that case, you will ask him “what happened, how do you feel, do you need help”.

Verbal

The injured person is conscious, but contact with him “takes place one way”. You see that he reacts only when you ask him about something loudly. May be confused about the place and time and the environment in which he/she is located. He/she may answer us in an illogical way.

Pain

The injured person does not respond to our questions and does not answer you at all. He/she is not aware of it. He/she reacts only to pain stimuli, i.e. when you shake him gently by the arms, squeezing the muscles of the so-called hooded. You can then observe, for example, a changing facial expression, movements of arms, legs, etc.

Unresponsive

The injured person does not respond to any stimuli at all. 

Those who have attended erste hilfe kurs in münchen understand what this signal means. You know how to proceed with the injured person.