Student First Aid Scenarios .docx

Medical Emergency #1 Case Scenario: You are at dinner with a group of friends and notice an adult female (mid-thirties) a few tables over coughing and pushing her chair back from the table. She is starting to become red in the face and is making dismissive hand gestures to her dinner guest as if to suggest that she does not need assistance. After a few seconds she suddenly rises from the table and walks to the bathroom alone. What do you do next?? Develop a treatment plan and presentation (15 min in length) educating your fellow students what steps should be taken in this situation. The presentation should include the following types of information: • What should be done to assist this person who is refusing help • Education regarding choking (statistics, etiology, identification, etc) • Management of a patient who is choking but able to cough • Management of a conscious choking victim who is unable to cough, breathe, or talk • Management of choking victim who becomes unconscious • Education regarding management of choking for a person who is alone (not in a public place) • Any other information you determine is crucial for your fellow student pharmacists to provide care to choking victims REMEMBER: Be creative!! Make it fun and interesting to your audience!

Medical Emergency #2 Case Scenario You are just outside of the supermarket, checking your coupons before you go in, when a woman in her 60’s approaches you. She tries to ask you a question, but you cannot understand what she is saying. Her speech seems impaired and she is slurring her words. She begins to become anxious and starts waving her left hand. You notice that the right side of her face is drooping. She then grabs her head with her left hand and falls down. What do you do next?? Develop a treatment plan and presentation (15 min in length) educating your fellow students’ what steps should be taken in this situation. The presentation should include the following types of information:  What are the signs of a stroke?  What are precipitating factors?  What can you do for this person?  Any other information you determine is crucial for your fellow student pharmacists to provide care to stroke victims REMEMBER: Be creative!! Make it fun and interesting to your audience!

Medical Emergency #3 Case Scenario Joe is a 17-year-old high school football player who is 6' 1" and weighs 291 pounds. He practiced with his team in 95-degree heat in mid-August. Joe was pushing himself to do well—recruiters might be at the next game—and had been sweating profusely for the last few minutes. He began missing assignments and became confused during the plays. Steve, a teammate, noticed that Joe had stopped sweating and seemed incoherent. What do you do next?? Develop a treatment plan and presentation (15 min in length) educating your fellow students what steps should be taken in this situation. The presentation should include the following types of information:  What type of heat related illness is Steve witnessing?  Define Heat-related illness and how does it occur?  How do you recognize, treat, and prevent it? REMEMBER: Be creative!! Make it fun and interesting to your audience!

Medical Emergency #4 Case Scenario: You are working by yourself in the pharmacy on a slow Saturday afternoon. A customer is seated in the waiting area and appears to have dozed off. After filling his prescription you call his name and he does not respond. You walk over to the waiting area and quickly realize he is unresponsive in his chair with a pale and clammy pallor. What do you do next?? Develop a treatment plan and presentation (15 min in length) educating your fellow students what steps should be taken in this situation. The presentation should include the following types of information: • What should be done to alert the emergency response system (who, what, and how) • Education about cardiac emergencies (statistics, etiology, identification, etc) • Management of a patient who is unresponsive, not breathing, with a pulse • Management of a patient who is unresponsive, not breathing, no pulse • Education regarding proper use of AED • Any other information you determine is crucial for your fellow student pharmacists to provide care to unresponsive respiratory/CV victims REMEMBER: Be creative!! Make it fun and interesting to your audience!

Medical Emergency #5 Case Scenario While visiting your relatives at their home in Florida. You notice that your uncle is doing some work on his computer out by the pool. Your 4-year-old cousin is running around outside of the pool and generally is acting like a Wildman. Your uncle’s cellphone rings, the he becomes distracted. He goes back into the house to gather some papers needed for the phone call leaving the boy alone. You assume since they live in Florida and has a pool in the back yard everyone must know how to swim. A few minutes later you hear a yell and a splash. Your cousin has tripped over a pool float and went flying into the deep end of the pool. You run out to see what has happened and realize that the child cannot swim and may in fact be hurt. By the time you reach him he is struggling and going down. You pull him out of the pool and see that he is unconscious. What do you do next?? Develop a treatment plan and presentation (15 min in length) educating your fellow students what steps should be taken in this situation. The presentation should include the following types of information:  What do with an unconscious pool victim?  Education on drowning victims and possible shock.  Management when he becomes responsive.  Any other information you determine is crucial for your fellow student pharmacists to provide care to unresponsive respiratory/drowning victims

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