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What should you use as a dressing for severely-bleeding wounds?

Only sterile gauze.
A pressure dressing of gauze, cloth and bandage.
Iodine and gentian.

How should you act when an accident casualty regains consciousness and wants to move away?

Start a conversation and try to convince the person to remain on the scene until emergency services arrive.
Recommend contacting primary care doctor and allow the person to move away.
Give tranquilizers or analgesics to the person and recommend waiting for the arrival of emergency medical services.

How should you dress a heavily bleeding wound?

Apply a pressure dressing with gauze and bandage.
Decontaminate the wound with iodine or gentian.
Cover the wound with sterile gauze.

The correct telephone call for help to the scene of a road accident consists in:

Informing the operator only about the scene of the accident.
Making sure that the operator received the complete information about the accident.
Informing the operator only about the kind of incident and the number of casualties.

How long should you keep checking whether the unconscious person is breathing?

For 5 seconds.
For 10 seconds.
For 30 seconds.

Which side of a thermal insulation blanket should the injured person be covered with to be protected against heat loss?

With the golden side up.
With the silver side up.
No matter which side up.

When giving first aid to a person, where must hands be applied during chest compressions?

Only on the lower part of the chest.
Only on the top part of the chest.
In the center of the chest.

In what circumstances should an injured person be placed in the recovery position?

When the person is unconscious and is not breathing.
When the person is unconscious and is breathing.
When the person is conscious and physically exhausted.

How should you secure a conscious victim who has suffered a head injury as a consequence of an accident?

Place the victim lying on a flat surface and apply a sterile gauze dressing on the wound.
Place the victim in a half-sitting position, apply a sterile gauze dressing on the wound and calm the victim down.
Place the victim in a side lying position (safe position), without applying any dressing.

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