List 7 Red Flags for Breathing Correct Answer: 1. Reduced consciousness
2. Cyanosis
3. SpO2 29
5. Asymmetrical movement
6. Tracheal deviation and distress
7. Inability to count to five in a single breath
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List 7 Red Flags for Breathing Correct Answer: 1. Reduced consciousness
2. Cyanosis
3. SpO2 29
5. Asymmetrical movement
6. Tracheal deviation and distress
7. Inability to count to five in a single breath
List 7 Red Flags for Circulatory Problems Correct Answer: 1. Reduced consciousness
2. Profound pallor
3. Marked sweating
4. Systolic BP 140
6. Skin mottling
7. Dysrhythmia & hypotension
List 5 Red Flags for Airway Assessment Correct Answer: 1. Reduced consciousness
2. Stridor
3. Snoring
4. Voice change
5. Tongue swelling
List 5 Red Flags of Disability Assessment Correct Answer: 1. Hypoglycaemia
2. Reducing level of consciousness
3. Persistent fitting
4. Progression of signs (e.g. headache, lateralization)
5. P,U or not localizing pain
List 3 Red Flags on General Assessment Correct Answer: 1. Purpuric rash
2. Erythrodermia
3. Core temperature 40deg
List 11 immediately life-threatening causes of airway obstruction Correct Answer: 1. Tongue swelling (pharynx)
2. Swelling of the epiglottis or soft tissues (pharynx)
3. Oedema of the larynx
4. Laryngospasm (spasm of the vocal cords)
5. Foreign body in larynx
6. Laryngeal trauma
7. Subglottic secretions or foreign body
8. Subglottic swelling
9. Bronchial aspiration
10. Tension pneumothorax
11. Bronchial foreign body
List 7 immediately life-threatening causes of breathlessness Correct Answer: 1. Airway obstruction
2. Acute severe asthma
3. Acute exacerbation of COPD
4. Pulmonary oedema
5. Tension pneumothorax
6. Critical oxygen desaturation
7. Circulatory shock
List 5 Life-threatening conditions that present with cutaneous manifestations Correct Answer: 1. Anaphylaxis
2. Angio-oedema
3. Meningococcal sepsis
4. Gonococcal seps
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