Elements of BLS
This is used to re-establish circulation and artificial ventilation i a patient who is not breathing and has no pulse.
What is Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)?
CAB
Circulation, Airway, and Breathing
In two-rescuer CPR this is the compression to breaths ratio in an adult.
What is 30:2?
The device used to ventilate a patient in cardiac arrest.
What is a BVM?
The total percentage of time during a high-quality CPR resuscitation attempt in which chest compressions are being performed.
What is Chest Compression Fraction?
This is the level of resuscitative care an EMT can provide
What is Basic Life Support (BLS)?
ROSC
Return of Spontaneous Circulation
This is the rate of compressions for CPR in an adults.
What is 100-120?
A device that compresses the sternum via an electric-powered plunger.
What is a Lucas Chest Compression Device?
A side-lying position used to maintain a clear airway in unresponsive patients in which spinal injury is not suspected.
What is the recovery position?
If the brain is deprived of oxygen for this range of time, brain damage is likely and the patient is clinically dead.
What is 6 minutes?
CCF
Chest Compression Fraction
In two-rescuer CPR, the compressor and the ventilator should switch positions this often.
What is 2 minutes?
Considered a supraglottic airway this device does not inflate.
What is an I-Gel Airway?
The return of a pulse and effective blood flow to the body in a patient who previously was in cardiac arrest.
What is ROSC?
This involves advanced life-saving procedures such as cardiac monitoring, administration of IV fluids and medications, and the use of advanced airway adjuncts.
What is Advanced Life Support (ALS)?
AED
Automated External Defibrillator
This is the two-rescuer compression to breaths ratio in a child.
What is 15:2?
This device is needed for moving a patient while continuing affective manual chest compressions.
What is a backboard?
Stiffening of the body muscles; a definitive sign of death.
What is rigor mortis?
High quality these with minimal interruptions and early defibrillation have been proven to be independent predictors of successful resuscitation from cardiac arrest and survival to hospital discharge.
What are chest compressions?
DNR
Do Not Resuscitate
How many millimeters of oxygen should be deliver when ventilating a patient in cardiac arrest?
What is approximately 500?
This device keeps the tongue down to provide a more clear and patent airway.
What is an OPA?
A condition in which air fills the stomach, often as a result of high volume and pressure during artificial ventilation.
What is gastric distention?