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Worksheet 3 Snorkelling first aid
Q1. List the steps necessary to control shock.
Q2. List the steps you would take to control bleeding from a 40 mm cut to the leg from a propeller.
Q3. Explain how to recognise if a patient was suffering from hypothermia and describe what to do.
Q4. List the treatment for stonefish, blue-ringed octopus and cone shells.
Q5. List the steps you should take if stung by a blue bottle in Sydney. Explain how this is different from
Cairns.
Q6. Explain how would you recognise a patient who was stung by a box jelly and describe what would you
should do.
Q7. Describe the treatment for Irukandji syndrome.
Q8. Describe the treatment if you were pricked by a spine of a scorpion (lion) fish.
Q9. Explain the difference between the treatment of a cut and a spine.
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