Accidents and Emergencies vocabulary

Accidents and Emergencies - vocabulary Medical jobs: He/She saves lives by giving basic treatment until professional medical help arrives.. paramedic She/he provides medical care to indi[r]

MATERIAŁY Z WEBINARIUM WORLDWIDE SCHOOL

13 maja 2014 Katarzyna Różańska-Polakowska

Holiday emergencies/accidents:

• food poisoning

• diarrhoea, diarrhea

• choking

• allergy, rash

• getting sunburnt, frostbite

• animal bites

• insect stings

• tick

Car emergencies/accidents

• to break down

• a flat tyre

• travel/motion sickness

• skidding

• ditch

• rollover/to overturn

• to bump into sth

• to get trapped

Fire accidents/emergencies

• to set fire

• to burn/ to be on fire

• to put out/extinguish fire

• fire extinguisher

• to catch fire

• to spread

• to burn (oneself)

• to scald (oneself)

• the fire alarm goes off

• the emergency fire department

Water accidents/emergencies

• drowning

• jumping into shallow water

• lifeguard

• life belt

• getting stung by a jellyfish

• stepping on a sea urchin

• heatstroke/sunstroke

Test yourself!

2 Mind you don’t s………… yourself with that pot! scald

3 I feel awful, I think the food wasn’t fresh I have f ……… ……… food

poisoning

At a chemist’s

• What can you recommend…?

• Could you advise me what I should do/some medicine/cure for…?

• side effects

• over the counter

• on prescription

First Aid

• Check the surroundings

• Determine responsiveness

• breathing, pulse

• CPR - Cardiopulmonary resuscitation

• chest compressions

• rescue breaths

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Accidents-and-first-aid/Pages/CPR.aspx

If an ambulance is needed dial 112 (in the EU, Russia, Ukraine and Switzerland);

911 (in the US, Canada)

To see emergency numbers in other countries go to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_telephone_number

When calling for help give information about:

• Your name: My name is This is …

• Location: We are in/at… the address is …/ we’re located at…

• The victim’s age: He/She is … (years old)

• Conscious? Breathing?

The person is unconscious; I cannot feel the pulse; He/she is not breathing

• What’s happened?

She/he has fallen/has choked/has hit her head/been hit by/has broken…/is bleeding/is in a state of shock, …

When visit A&E/ emergency department (ED)/ emergency room (ER), or casualty department?

• loss of (to lose) consciousness

• persistent, severe chest pain

• breathing difficulties

• severe bleeding that cannot be stopped

Medical jobs:

He/She saves lives by giving basic treatment until professional medical help arrives

paramedic

She/he provides medical care to individuals and families physician

He/she is a specialist in medical treatment that involves cutting of a body surgeon

At a doctor’s

• What seems to be the problem? What’s bothering you?

• Where does it hurt?

• Could you roll up your sleeve?

• What are your symptoms?

• We need to take a urine/blood sample

• I'm going to prescribe you some antibiotics

• Are you on any sort of medication?

• I want you to see a specialist

Remember the difference!

Prescription /prɪˈskrɪpʃn/

receipt /rɪˈsiːt/

recipe /ˈresəpi/

Human body:

Head, shoulders, elbow, wrist, thigh, calf, toes, neck, chest, abdomen, back, hip, bottom, knee, ankle

Remember!

Ankle /ˈæŋkl/ – body part!

Uncle /ˈʌŋkl/ – your relative!

Human organs

Larynx, lungs, liver, kidneys, bladder, heart, stomach, small/large intestine

Test yourself!

2 You shrug them when you don’t know the answer… shoulders

4 Some people mistake it for an ”uncle”… ankle

6 There are two of them They look like beans… kindneys

8 It is commonly called the voice box… larynx

9 It hurts when we’ve eaten too much … stomache

How do accidents happen?

• to slide/slip (on a banana skin/peel)

• to trip (over sth)

• to fall off (a ladder)

• to hit (one’s head)

• to swallow (a small object)

Injuries

• to twist an ankle

• to sprain an ankle/wrist

• to strain/to pull a muscle

• bruise

• swell/swollen

• cut

• wound

• fracture, broken bones

• dislocations (when a joint ‘pops out’)

• slipped disc

Other medical conditions:

• heart attack

• stroke

• coma

Remember!

Coma /ˈkəʊmə/

Comma /ˈkɒmə/

Test yourself!

1 Some people think it’s funny when you ……… on a banana skin slip

2 With small children in the house there should be no small objects lying around, as they could

3 „Can you take away your shoes, pls? I wouldn’t like to ………… ……… them!” trip over

• I can’t move my leg I think it’s broken Fracture

• I’ve lifted a sofa and now my back, bottom and legs hurt terribly Slipped disc

• I fell when jogging My foot is all swollen now Sprained ankle

Pain or ache?

• (feel) pain in … (back, chest, …)

• stomache

tooth

back

ear

• to hurt

• sore (throat, heels)

Tonsillitis or angina?

 a medical condition in which you have bad pain in your chest because your heart is weak

angina /ænˈdʒaɪnə /

 a serious infection of the tonsils tonsillitis /tɒnsəˈlaɪtɪs/ Test yourself!

1 I’ve got tooth…… I can’t stand the ………… ache; pain

2 I have to cancel my class today, I can’t speak, I have a ………… throat! It must be ………

sore; tonsillitis

Hospital treatment

• to examine/be examined/to have a check-up

• to take blood pressure

• to take temperature

• to give injections

• to have EKG (electrocardiogram) performed

• to put sb on a drip

• to send sb for an X-ray

• to cleanse

• to sanitize/ to sterilize

• to dress

• to stitch up/stitches

• plaster

• crutches

• sling

• splint

First aid kit

• bandages

• adhesive tape

• Band-Aid (AmE)/plaster (BrE)

• thermal blanket

• painkiller

• 1 breathing barrier

• a pair of nonlatex gloves

• scissors

• sterile gauze pads

• thermometer

• tweezers

Test yourself!

3 You need these to pull or move very small objects (e.g to remove sth from a wound)

tweezers

4.You need this to cover someone/to keep them warm thermal

blanket

Travel insurance

• dates of coverage

• emergency accident & sickness

• trip/Flight Cancellation

• medical evacuation coverage

• 24 hour contact with emergency advice

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