Should you suspect that your victim or survivor has a neck injury, but you still need to open their airway.

Another method of doing that without compromising their injury is to align yourself facing their feet.

You're going to bring two fingers and your thumbs on their cheek, and you're going to press behind their jawline and you're going to move the mandible forward.

They should spontaneously start breathing, or you may have to maintain this until someone can help you ventilate the patient.

Now moving on to head to toe.

First, you want to assess a patient's if a patient is conscious.

So you always want to start off with PPEs and then approach the person and say, hey, hey, are you okay?

Lightly tapping them and seeing if there is a verbal or a physical response.

At this time, he is not responsive to verbal or painful stimuli.

So then I'm going to move on on doing an assessment starting at the head.

I'm going to start at the head and I'm going to feel the head and feel for any abnormalities.

We're checking for DCAP BTLS.

When I'm done with the head, I'm gonna bring my hands up to see if I have any blood on my gloves to see if there's suspected any injuries.

From there, I'm going to assess his airway.

If his airway is not open, I will open the airway.

I'm gonna check his shoulders, move down to his chest, pushing in and pushing down, feeling for any kind of decap BTLS.

I'm gonna go down to his abdomen.

There's four quadrants and assess each quadrant gently, and then if I feel lean for any type of rigidity or distension.

If I suspect an injury, I want to expose.

I'm gonna pull up, preserving their dignity, and check for any injuries.

At this point, I also want to check the back, which is where their kid his kidneys will be.

Again, bringing my gloves up and checking to see if there is any blood on my gloves.

From there, I'm going to check the pelvis, push down and pull in to see if there's any again decap BTLS, crepitus, or instability.

Then I will move on to my arms, checking each arm, and then to check again my gloves to checking to see if there is any blood.

From there, I will move down each individual extremity, checking for any DCAP BTLS and checking my gloves for any blood.

If my victim would or if my patient was awake, I would ask him to squeeze my hands.

And also I would do the same with the lower extremities and ask him to push down and pull up and checking for sensation.

And that concludes a head to toe.

We will be discussing how to do a head to toe on survivors and patients.

The first thing you want to do is ensure that you have personal protective equipment.

That is to safeguard yourself from any possible diseases or any spread of infection.

The next thing you want to assess is your patient's mental status.

Sir, sir, are you okay touching him as well?

I think so.

The patient is responsive and he is open, he has an open airway because he spoke to me.

From there, I will introduce myself and request permission to perform an assessment.

My name is Tamara.

I'm a CERT member.

Is it okay if I do an assessment?

Yes.

From there, I will be explaining to my patient as I go along with my assessment and making sure he is aware of everything that I'm doing as I'm doing it.

I'm going to touch your head to look for injuries.

I'm going to palpitate around in the head and his face, looking for DCAP BTLS, any injuries.

After I do so, I want to look at my gloves to ensure that there is no blood.

If there is blood on my heads, that indicates that there is an injury somewhere.

From there, I will assess his neck, move down to his shoulders.

Sir, I'm going to touch your chest.

Can you take a deep breath from me?

I'm going to assess his ribs, push in and push down.

From there, I'm going to move down to his abdomen and it says each quadrant pushing down.

Do you have any pain?

No.

If the patient grimaces, that also indicates that he may have an injury, and you also want to expose to visualize and assess for any potential injuries.

From there, I'm going to move to each extremity individually and assess each extremity.

I'm going to have him since he's conscious, hold my hands.

Can you squeeze my hands?

Good.

Do you have any loss of sensation?

No.

I'm checking for sensation, motor, and circulation, and I will also be checking for pulses in both wrists.

From there, I'm going to move on to the hips and push in and push down.

Again, asking if there's any pain or looking for visual signs of pain.

If there is pain expressed, or if he grimaces, I would like to expose that area with preserving their dignity.

I will then move on to each extremity individually, checking again for DCAP BTLS.

Once that is performed, I'm going to reposition myself down to his feet and ask him to push down, pull up, and check for motor sensation.

Can you wiggle your feet?

Can you feel me touching?

Yes.

And that concludes our head to toe.

So now let's talk about placing a patient or a survivor on in the recovery position.

We place a person in recovery position in order to maintain their airway and prevent any further injury.

To do so, you want to bring the arm underneath their head to cradle it and keep it off of the floor.

You want to extend the upper arm over and then keep the lower leg that's on the floor extended and bring this leg on top into an angled position.

This will maintain the patient from any compromise of their airway, should they vomit or should they have any kind of obstruction inside their mouth?