Vocabulary
What are Good Samaritan Laws.
Laws that protect people who give reasonable assistance to those who are injured or ill and accept nothing in return
Your first responsibility at any scene
Your personal safety
After EMS personnel arrive.
What is Abandonment.
What is a pacemaker.
A device implanted that makes the heart beat normally.
What do you tap on an infant when checking to see if they are responsive?
what is feet?
A chaotic, quivering heart rhythm that prevents the normal contraction of the heart and the ability to pump blood.
What is Ventricular Fibrillation?
What takes priority before CPR?
AED
The assumption that an unresponsive person would give permission to be helped if responsive.
What is implied consent.
four chambers of the heart.
What is right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle.
How to open an airway of an unresponsive person to give rescue breaths to.
What is Head Tilt-Chin Lift
What does AED stand for?
Automated External Defibrillator
What happens when you are too tired to continue CPR and there is no one else around?
You go look for help or call out for help.
A finding of failure to act properly in a situation in which there was a duty to act and that harm was caused to the patient as a result.
What is Negligence.
What is a heart attack caused by
blockage in the arteries
An example is HIV.
What is Bloodborne Pathogens.
What is SCD?
Sudden Cardiac Arrest
Droopy face or limp sides of the body suggest that the person is experiencing a _______.
Stroke
A law enacted to legally protect trained providers who voluntarily stop to help, act prudently, do not provide care beyond training, and are not completely careless in delivering emergency care.
What is Good Samaritan law.
What is the vein that goes to the heart?
Vena cava.
Basic CPR skill that presses on the chest cavity of the person to increase blood flow to areas of the body.
What is Chest Compressions.
Medicine that rapidly reverses an opioid overdose including heroin and fentanyl
Naloxone.
A set of regulations and ethical considerations that define the scope, or extent, and limits of the EMT's job
What is Scope of Practice.
What is HIPPA?
Fed. law that protects the privacy of patients.
When the heart stops beating suddenly.
Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA)
What does EMS stand for?
emergency medical services