CPR
Where should the hand should be placed during CPR
Lower half of the breast bone
Nose mouth, jaw, oral cavity, pharynx, larynx
Upper airway
Slow heart rate >60
Upper airway
The heart stops beating, the person is unresponsive, they are not breathing
Cardiac Arrest
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
CPR
The first step when arriving on scene
Scene Safety
the physical act of moving air in and out of the lungs
Ventilation
Disturbance of rhythm
Dysrhythmia
The most common injury people get from CPR
Broken ribs
What starts to happen when the body has been without oxygen for 4-5 minutes
Brain Death
The depth at which you should be compressing the chest of an adult during CPR
2 inches
hand-held device commonly used to provide positive pressure ventilation to patients who are not breathing or not breathing adequately
Bag Valve Mask
termination of fibrillation, usually by electric shock
Defibrillation
A group of non-professionals that surround a person in need of help
""Uh-oh squad"
The pressure is highest in this area of the heart
Left ventricle
30 compression : 2 breaths
Compression:ventilation ratio for adults
Inhaling some sort of foreign object into the airway
Aspiration
An type of arrhythmia that causes the lower chambers of the heart to quiver
Ventricular Fibrillation
When air leaks into the space between the lungs and chest wall
collapsed lung
A condition that causes difficulty eliminating CO2 through exhalation, sometimes the body uses a backup called hypoxic drive
COPD
A common issue when performing CPR
Exhaustion
The action that opens the airway in a non traumatic arrest
Head tilt, chin lift
"Flatline"
Asystole
A fatal complication in which weakened areas of the ventricle wall bulge and burst
Ventricular aneurysm/rupture
medical terms used to describe insufficient breathing that often sounds like snoring, snorting, gasping, or labored breathing
Agonal breathing