Chapter 1
1. Recognizing that an emergency exists.
2. Deciding to take action.
3. Activating the EMS system.
4. Giving care until EMS personnel take over.
What are the emergency medical services (EMS) system?
Acronym for the method used to gather more information when an checking an injured or ill person.
What is SAM?
Name for what occurs when the blood flow to a part of the heart muscle is blocked.
What is a heart attack?
1. Looking panicked
2. Coughing noises
3. May place hands on their throat
What are the symptoms of choking?
Acronym for personal protective equipment.
What is PPE?
1. Unusual Sounds
2. Unusual Odors
3. Unusual Sights
4. Unusual Behaviors
What are the signs of an emergency?
Search the persons body to detect signs of injury or illness (usually from one end to another).
What is Checking from Head to Toe?
Name for what happens when the heart stops beating or beats too ineffectively to circulate blood to the brain and other vital organs.
What is cardiac arrest?
Things done while performing the Heimlich maneuver.
What are back blows and abdominal thrusts?
What must you do before proceeding to check a child.
What is obtaining consent?
Law that usually protects responders who act the was a "reasonable and prudent" person would.
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
1. For a child - tap their foot
2. For an adult - tap their shoulder
What is the medication (typically used for headaches) that can also be used as a blood thinner for people having a heart attack?
What is Aspirin?
The passageway between the mouth and lungs that allows life-sustaining oxygen into the body?
What is the Airway.
Cardiac arrest - when the heart unexpectedly stops beating
Heart attack - occurs when part of the muscle is blocked
What is the difference between a heart attack and cardiac arrest?
1. What do you do when there are Emergency Situations?
2. What do you do when there are Emergency Conditions?
What is "When to Activate the EMS System"?
What do you do when you are alone with an irured or ill person that appears to be unresponsive.
What is call 911 and begin CPR?
1. Recognition of cardiac arrest and activation of the EMS system
2. Early CPR
3. Early defibrillation
4. Early advanced life support
5. Integrated post-cardiac arrest care
What is the Cardiac Chain of Survival?
What is caring for an infant that is choking.
A basic CPR skill that creates increased pressure in the chest cavity and direct compression of the heart. This forces blood to move from the chest to the lungs, brain, and rest of the body?
What are Chest Compressions?
1. State your name.
2. State the type and level of training that you have (such as in first aid or CPR).
3. Explain what you think is wrong.
4. Explain what you plan to do.
5. Ask if you may help.
What are the steps to Obtaining Consent to Help?
1. Giving proper, not sloppy, chest compressions.
2. Blowing air into their lungs to keep oxygen flowing.
3. Continue until the EMTs arrive at the scene, or you are too tired to continue.
What is performing quality CPR?
What is the skill used to keep oxygenated blood moving to the brain and other vital organs until advanced medical professionals arrive.
(Includes 30 chest compressions and 2 rescues breaths)
What is CPR?
Lay the person down and being to perform CPR (make sure to perform a mouth sweep to see if there is something blocking the airway?
What to do if a person becomes unresponsive when they are choking?
The abrupt loss of the heart's ability to contract and push blood forward through the circulatory system. Typically caused by a sudden disruption of the heart's electrical system?
What is Sudden Cardiac Arrest.