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Practise adult first-aid awareness in a UK context (999 / 112). In an emergency, contact emergency services and follow the call handler. This quiz cannot teach physical skills or certify competence.

Curated bank v1.0.0: 12 original scenarios covering scene safety, CPR and early help, bleeding, and thermal burns. UK source guidance checked 10 September 2026. Not a full first-aid curriculum.

Optional: use a seed to reproduce question and answer order. Blank uses first-aid-1.

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A score reflects only these scenarios. Practise physical skills with a qualified instructor. In a real emergency, call 999 / 112 in the UK and follow the call handler. Read current first-aid guidance

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Which response priorities need another look? Counts show correct and missed answers in this round, not clinical ability.

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Traffic, smoke and live electricity can make an attempt to help dangerous before any treatment begins. A first-aid response includes protecting the rescuer as well as caring for the injured person. Once a safe approach is possible, the person's responsiveness, breathing and any severe bleeding help determine what needs attention first.

Responsive
The person answers, opens their eyes or responds to you in another way. Being responsive does not rule out a serious injury.
Normal breathing
Occasional, irregular gasps are not normal breathing. In an unresponsive adult, they can be a sign of cardiac arrest.
Life-threatening bleeding
Major blood loss, such as blood pouring or gushing from a wound, needs immediate attention even when the person is awake.

In the UK, finding an adult unresponsive calls for an immediate emergency call to 999 or 112. Breathing can be assessed while the call connects, with the call handler helping when there is uncertainty. If breathing is absent or abnormal, start cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Chest compressions support circulation, and the call handler can guide an untrained rescuer. An automated external defibrillator (AED) checks the heart rhythm and provides prompts for resuscitation, including a shock when appropriate.

Heavy bleeding is a separate threat to circulation. A person may still be speaking while losing enough blood to endanger the oxygen supply to vital organs. Bleeding control and emergency help cannot wait for them to become unresponsive. An object embedded in the wound changes how pressure is applied because pulling it out can worsen the bleeding.

Burns introduce a different immediate need once the person is away from the heat and there is no competing life-threatening problem. A thermal burn is caused by heat; a scald comes from hot liquid or steam. Prompt cooling with running water helps limit further heat injury. Cooling is initial care, not proof that the burn is minor or that medical assessment is unnecessary.

First-aid awareness is educational, not a diagnosis or a substitute for medical care and hands-on training. Recognising a priority in writing cannot demonstrate CPR technique or bleeding-control skills. Practise physical skills with a qualified instructor, but do not delay an emergency call or following the call handler's instructions because you have not trained.

How to Use This Tool:

Choose a broad round or a smaller scenario pool. The default is All response topics with eight questions and After each answer feedback.

  1. Choose the Scenario set and Question count. All response topics offers 4, 8 or 12 questions from a 12-question bank. Core scenarios, Scenario variations and Reinforcement scenarios each contain four questions and offer rounds of 2 or 4.
  2. Choose when to receive Feedback. After each answer reveals the correction, explanation and source after your choice. At the end of the round records each answer without revealing correctness in the question view, then reveals the explanations after completion.
  3. Enter an optional Replay seed under Advanced when you need a reproducible round. It accepts up to 128 characters. Leaving it blank uses first-aid-1, a fixed seed rather than a newly randomised one.
  4. Select Start practice and read the whole scenario before choosing one of its four response priorities. Selecting an answer immediately records and locks it for that attempt.
    If Start practice is disabled, follow the setup message. Choose an offered set, feedback mode and question count, and shorten an overlong replay seed. If Saved attempt unavailable appears, the link is damaged or incompatible and has not restored your choices. Select valid settings and start again.
  5. Select Next question after answering, or View results after the final question. Each question needs an answer before you can advance; there is no skipped-question or early-finish result.
  6. Review the explanations before starting another attempt. Retry missed includes only wrong answers and appears only when there are misses. Replay same seed repeats the same questions and option order. Try a new seed makes another draw from the same pool. Change setup discards the current attempt rather than pausing it.

Interpreting Results:

During a round, Practice status and the progress percentage show how many questions have been answered, not how many were correct. After completion, the headline changes to correct answers out of the round's question count.

Use Missed answer review to compare your choice with the correct priority and its explanation. The Answer ledger also includes questions you answered correctly, so it is worth reviewing a correct guess. Source information accompanies the explanations; it is not an endorsement of the quiz. If the chart cannot load, the written review and topic-count CSV remain available; Retry chart attempts to load it again.

Topic performance shows counts of Correct and Missed answers in the topics sampled that round. An untested topic is not rated. Review focus points to the category with the most misses. A topic asked more often has more chances to accumulate misses, so compare question counts before interpreting different bar lengths.

There is no official pass mark, proficiency band or certification outcome. No misses this round means every selected priority was correct in that attempt. Repeated questions and the same four recurring answer priorities can become familiar, so even a perfect result is not evidence of safe practical performance. Use the explanations to identify what to revisit in current guidance and practical training.

Technical Details:

Response priorities depend on the conditions already established. An unsafe approach prevents hands-on care; abnormal breathing in an unresponsive adult raises concern for cardiac arrest; major blood loss demands urgent control. The distinctions below explain the response choices, not a universal sequence for every emergency.

Response-priority rules

Condition described Response priority Important distinction
Traffic, live electricity or smoke makes approaching unsafe Check scene safety before approaching. Do not enter the danger area or touch someone exposed to a live electrical hazard. Get emergency help from safety.
After a safe approach, an adult is unresponsive with absent or abnormal breathing Call 999 / 112 and start CPR, following the call handler. Irregular gasps do not count as normal breathing. Use speakerphone when available, and ask a helper to bring an AED if available.
A responsive adult has severe bleeding with no embedded object Control the severe bleeding and get emergency help. Apply firm direct pressure with a dressing or clean non-fluffy cloth. Use gloves if available.
A responsive adult has heavy bleeding around embedded glass Control the severe bleeding and get emergency help. Leave the glass in place and apply pressure beside it, not directly onto it.
A responsive adult has a fresh thermal burn, is away from the heat and has water available, with no other immediate life threat Cool the burn under cool running water. Start promptly and continue for at least 20 minutes. Keep the rest of the person warm and seek medical advice.

The CPR scenarios do not resolve a combined emergency involving massive bleeding and cardiac arrest. The burn scenarios describe water being available after the heat exposure has ended. These conditions matter: a broad answer priority does not replace assessment of additional hazards, injuries or a change in the person's breathing and responsiveness.

During burn cooling, remove nearby jewellery and loose clothing before swelling, but leave anything stuck to the burn in place. Do not apply ice, creams or gels to the burn, and leave blisters intact. Cooling the injury must not mean chilling the whole person. A severe burn requires emergency help as well as cooling.

Practice score and completion

Each correct choice earns one point and an incorrect choice earns zero. There is no partial credit, penalty or weighting by topic. Let N be the number of selected questions, A the number answered and C the number correct. These are whole-number counts, with N greater than zero and 0 ≤ C ≤ A ≤ N. The score is C points out of N, with a possible range from 0 to N.

Accuracy measures correct answers against the selected round, while progress measures how much of that round has been answered.

Accuracy (%) = 100 × CN Progress (%) = 100 × AN
Answer state Points Effect on the round
Correct 1 Increases both the answered and correct counts.
Incorrect 0 Increases the answered count and becomes a missed question.
Unanswered 0 Remains in the selected question total but is not counted as incorrect or included in missed-only practice.

Completion requires all N questions to have recorded answers. Before then, the denominator does not shrink to the number already answered. Accuracy retains its unrounded ratio. Only visible progress rounds to the nearest whole percent, with half-percent ties upward. The completed headline keeps the exact correct-count fraction. Changing feedback timing does not change the answer key or scoring.

Sampling and repeatability

The curated bank contains 12 original text scenarios, with three each in Scene safety, CPR and help, Bleeding and Burns. Each question offers the same four broad priorities in shuffled order. There is no assessment of physical actions or image recognition.

Selection is without replacement within an attempt, so a question is not repeated in that round. Shorter rounds need not balance the topics. A 12-question round includes all three questions from each topic; a full four-question pool includes one from each. A new seed can change selection or order but cannot create scenarios beyond this bank, and repeat questions remain possible across rounds.

Reproducibility depends on keeping the scenario set, question count, feedback mode, replay seed and question-bank version unchanged. Missed-only practice has a smaller question pool and can contain just one question. Its score describes that new attempt, not an improved total for the previous round.

Limitations and Privacy:

Its independently authored questions concern UK adult first-aid awareness, not infant or child care, a full first-aid curriculum, official examination questions or professional competence. Source credits do not imply affiliation or endorsement.

  • The bank is version 1.0.0 and records source pages clinically reviewed on 28 April 2025 and guidance checked on 10 September 2026. Those dates are not a guarantee of automatic updates. The broad CPR answer does not test every step of the adult basic life support guidance published on 27 October 2025, including its explicit immediate-call sequence. Follow current emergency guidance and the call handler in a real incident.
  • Scoring takes place in the browser, but the page address can retain the setup, seed, recorded answers and current position, including a partial attempt. Someone receiving that address can restore those choices. Avoid putting personal or medical information in the replay seed.
  • Attempt-bearing addresses may remain in browser history or be transmitted when loaded or shared. The results chart may also load supporting code from an external provider, so browser scoring is not an assurance of offline use or no network requests. Clearing the current attempt does not erase shared copies or history, and there is no account-based progress record.

Worked Examples:

Three answers into an eight-question round

Choose All response topics, eight questions and After each answer. After two correct choices and one incorrect choice, Practice status shows 3/8 answered. Progress is 37.5%, displayed as 38%, while accuracy is 25% because two of the eight selected questions are correct. One answer is missed and five questions remain unanswered, so there is no completed result. The 38% describes completion, not accuracy, and it would be unchanged if those three answers had all been correct.

A core round with the burn priority missed

Choose Core scenarios with four questions. Answer the traffic, gasping and severe-bleeding scenarios correctly, but choose scene safety for the hot-tea scald. The finished score is 3/4, equivalent to 75% accuracy, and Burns has zero correct and one missed answer. The explanation redirects attention to cooling because the person is already away from the heat. Retry missed then starts a one-question attempt on that scald scenario. A correct retry scores 1/1 for the new attempt; it does not rewrite the original 3/4 result.

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