First Aid Requirements:

Bronze:

  • Treatment of cuts
  • Treatment of bites & stings
  • Anaphylaxis
  • Treatment of burns
  • Recognition and treatment of fractures/dislocations
  • Shock
  • Artificial respiration
  • Insulin shock/diabetic coma
  • Nosebleeds
  • Seizures
  • Fainting

Silver: Bronze plus:

  • Treating foreign bodies in eyes
  • Emergency transport
  • Airway obstruction
  • Administration of medicine
  • Asthma
  • Hyperventilation

Gold: Bronze and Silver Plus:

  • Heat Cramps
  • Muscle Cramps
  • Heat Exhaustion
  • Heatstroke
  • Hypothermia
  • Frostbite
  • Spinal Injury
  • CPR
  • Sprains and Strains

Bronze Level

  1. While setting up camp, you discover a wasp’s nest and one of the members of your team is stung. They go into shock, and are not carrying any antidote or indication that they are allergic to stings.
  1. While boiling water, one of the members of your team tips the pot over and spills it all over their leg. How do you treat the burn?
  1. One of your group members is diabetic. How would you recognize and treat insulin shock and diabetic coma, if you had to?
  1. While hiking, one of your group members falls hard and suffers a simple fracture and a few cuts that are bleeding. How would you help them?

Silver Level

  1. While eating dinner, you believe that one of your group members may be choking. How would you determine this and what should you do to help them?
  1. One of your team members is asthmatic. While hiking on an especially hot day, they begin to have trouble breathing. How would you help them return their breathing to normal? How would treating a victim who is hyperventilating be similar?
  1. A group member has gotten bug spray into their eye. What would you do for them?

Gold Level

  1. At the campsite on a hot day, one of the group members has not been drinking enough water. You believe that they may be suffering from heat exhaustion. How would you treat them for this?
  1. While canoeing, a team member has gotten wet and the wind is very cold. After a while, they begin to shiver and seem to be disoriented. How would you treat them for hypothermia, and frost bite if necessary?
  1. While on the trail, you come across a hiker who appears to be unconscious and lying in an unnatural position, indicating a possible spinal injury. What should you do?
  1. During a hike, a group member sprains an ankle. How would you treat it?
  1. How would you administer CPR if necessary?