SLIDE 2 Intervention Planning
❖ Increase hospital preparedness for incoming patients by
proving phone numbers and encouraging commercial vehicle drivers to call ahead
❖ First aid training session with commercial vehicle drivers
to increase baseline medical knowledge, with a focus on choking, bleeding wounds, shock, burns and scalds, head, neck and back injuries, injuries to bones, muscles and joints, convulsions, and appropriate contents in a first aid kit
First Aid Training Survey Instrument
❖ Consisted of 5 questions: ❖ In an unconscious patient which of the following should you do first, gently
shake the patient and check for a response or try to give them water to drink?
❖ True of false, in a patient who is bleeding, stopping the bleeding by holding
pressure is the right thing to do?
❖ True of false, large burns can cause dehydration? ❖ True of false, you should give a choking person something to drink to help clear
the obstruction?
❖ True or false, in a patient who is having convulsions you should place a small
stick between their teeth so they don't bite their tongue?
Pre-intervention Survey Results
❖ In an unconscious patient which of the following should you do first, gently shake the patient and check for a
response or try to give them water to drink?
❖ 7 correct, 14 incorrect (33.3%) ❖ True of false, in a patient who is bleeding, stopping the bleeding by holding pressure is the right thing to do? ❖ 25 correct, 0 incorrect (100%) ❖ True of false, large burns can cause dehydration? ❖ 21 correct, 1 incorrect (95.5%) ❖ True of false, you should give a choking person something to drink to help clear the obstruction? ❖ 0 correct, 26 incorrect (0%) ❖ True or false, in a patient who is having convulsions you should place a small stick between their teeth so
they don't bite their tongue?
❖ 2 correct, 23 incorrect (8%)
Post-intervention Survey Results
❖ In an unconscious patient which of the following should you do first, gently shake the patient and check for a
response or try to give them water to drink?
❖ 18 correct, 0 incorrect (100%) ❖ True of false, in a patient who is bleeding, stopping the bleeding by holding pressure is the right thing to do? ❖ 18 correct, 0 incorrect (100%) ❖ True of false, large burns can cause dehydration? ❖ 18 correct, 0 incorrect (100%) ❖ True of false, you should give a choking person something to drink to help clear the obstruction? ❖ 18 correct, 0 incorrect (100%) ❖ True or false, in a patient who is having convulsions you should place a small stick between their teeth so
they don't bite their tongue?
❖ 18 correct, 0 incorrect (100%)
