A quick assessment of a collapsed casualty will indicate the most urgent priority and dictated your action. The charts below show you how to use this assessment to make an instant, and possibly life-saying, decision about the course of action you should take.
The upper chart tells you what steps to take to assess the situation, and the casualty’s condition. For guidance on dealing with danger, turn to the chapter Action at an Emergency. Step by step guides to assessing the casualty are given overleaf.
The lower chart tells you how best to act on your findings. For example, in the worst possible situation, your assessment will have told you that an unconscious casualty is not breathing, nor does be or she have a pulse(the casualty will be in “cardiac arrest”.
The cart shows you that in this situation, the sequence of action that will give the casualty the greatest chance of survival is to first telephone for an ambulance, or get someone else to do so, then start and continue artificial ventilation and chest compression.
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