MARIAN-EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM

SAINT MARY’S UNIVERSITY

BAYOMBONG, NUEVA VIZCAYA
• Immediate care • Provides first-aid
• Self-help and home care when medical • Must be:
assistance is delayed or unavailable • Gentle
• Resourceful
• Observer
• Tactful
• To alleviate • Empathetic
suffering; To fill the gap between • Respectful
• To prevent further the patient and
injury; physician.
• To prolong life.
1. Survey the scene;
2. Do primary survey
on the patient;
3. Transfer facility and
relay information;
4. Do secondary survey;

• Unfavorable surroundings;
• Presence of crowd;
• Pressure from patients’
relatives
• SPRAIN - stretched or torn ligament.
• STRAIN – stretched or torn
• Rest
muscle/tendon
• Ice
• Both are characterized by pain, swelling,
• Compress
bruising, and inability to move.
• Elevate
• Loss of consciousness due to decreased • Transfer patient to a
oxygen supply to the brain. safe place;
• Make the patient lie
down;
• Loosen tight clothing
(Ask for consent);
• Elevate patient’s feet;
• Provide ample air
supply.
• Patient’s blood glucose in below normal • Transfer patient to a
level of 70-100 mg/dL safe place;
• Presentations of hypoglycemia includes • Place patient in a
cold skin, sweating, palpitation, and comfortable position;
nausea. • Provide sweets, ex.
Candies;
• Provide patient with
fruit juice.
• Decreased blood or oxygen supply to
body’s organs;
• Symptoms include:
• Cool and clammy skin;
• Weak and rapid pulse;
• Nausea;
• Lack lustered eyes;
• Loss of consciousness;
• Transfer patient to a safe
place;
• Place patient in shock
position;
• Keep the patient warm
and comfortable;
• Turn the patient’s head to
one side if neck injury is
not suspected.
• Bleeding from the nostril, nasal cavity or • Transfer patient to a
nasopharynx. safe place;
• Sit the patient upright
and lean them
forward;
 • Provide more clothing;
• HYPOTHERMIA – Body temperature is
• Warm compress
below normal level; application to sole of feet;
• Symptoms: Below 35°C, • Provide beverage
shaking/shivering, cold skin
• HYPERTHERMIA – Body temperature is
higher than normal level;
• Symptoms: Above 37.5 °C, warm and
plush skin
• Remove extra
clothing;
• Increase fluid intake;
• Provide tap water
sponge bath
• An ischemic stroke occurs when the
blood supply to part of the brain is
• Immediately call
interrupted or reduced, preventing brain for help;
tissue from getting oxygen and nutrients. • Transfer patient
Brain cells begin to die in minutes. to safe place; and
• Put patient in a
comfortable
position,
preferably lying
on one side with
head slightly
elevated and
supported;
• Caused by the body overheating, usually
as a result of prolonged exposure to or • Immediately call
physical exertion in high temperatures. for help;
• Transfer patient
to safe and cool
place;
• Apply ice pack to
patient’s armpits,
groin, neck, and
back;
• Cool the patient
as possible.
• Difficulty in breathing due to an
obstruction in the throat or
windpipe.
• Injuries to the open skin and soft tissues.
• Internal Wound
• Stop the bleeding by
• External Wound
applying pressure;
• Abrasion
• Clean the wound;
• Puncture
• Cover the wound;
• Incision
• Laceration
• In terms of puncture,
• Avulsion
DO NOT remove the
• Evisceration
object punctured
• Injuries involving the skin, including
muscles, bone, nerves, and blood vessels
• Thermal burn by direct contact
• Chemical burn
• Electrical burn
• First degree – up to epidermis, ex. Blister;
sunburn
• Second degree – up to dermis
• Third degree – up to muscles
• Fourth degree – full thickness burn up to
bones. • Cool the affected area;
• Cover with bandage;
• Rush the victim to the hospital.
• a serious medical emergency that can
result from swallowing, inhaling, • Immediately call for help;
touching, or injecting harmful substances • Remove anything remaining
• Ingestion from patient’s mouth if
• Inhalation ingested;
• Injection • Poison on skin - remove any
• Absorption contaminated clothing; rinse
skin for 15-20 minutes with
running water;
• Poison in the eye – gently flush
the eye with cool or lukewarm
water for 20 minutes
• Inhaled poison – get the patient
into fresh air ASAP