Chapter 1
PPE stands for:
What is Personal Protective Equipment?
How long would you check for breathing:
What is 5-10 seconds?
What is 30 compressions:2 rescue breaths?
Name at least 5 choking hazards:
What are buttons, coins, magnets, marbles, batteries, toys, beads, pebbles, plastic bags, and pen or marker caps?
For every age, the rate of CPR compressions is:
What is 100-120 compressions a minute?
The 3 Emergency Action Steps:
What is Check, Call, Care?
The way to check a young child:
What is checking from toe to head?
CPR stands for:
What is Cardiopulmonary resuscitation?
When you firmly strike the person between the shoulder blades with the heel of your other hand, usually if they are choking:
What are back blows?
The acronym "EMS" stands for:
What is emergency medical services?
Pathogens that are not spread by casual contact but by the air, like when someone coughs, breathes, or sneezes on you:
What are airborne pathogens?
A position that helps lower one's risk for choking and aspiration:
What is recovery position?
When the blood flow to part of the heart muscle is blocked:
What is a heart attack?
The method of stopping a pregnant person from choking:
What are abdominal thrusts?
If you are alone, the first thing you do to treat an unresponsive adult (12+ years older), a child or infant who you saw collapse suddenly, or an unresponsive child or infant who is known to have heart problems, is:
What is CALL first?
A bacterial infection of the lungs that spreads in the air from one person to another. It also can affect the bones, brain, kidneys, and other organs. If not treated, by taking many different medications over an extended period of time, then it becomes fatal:
What is tuberculosis?
SAMPLE stands for:
What is S=Signs and Symptoms, A=Allergies, M=Medications, P=Pertinent Medical History, L=Last food or drink, E=Events leading up to the incident
Occurs when the heart stops beating or beats too ineffectively to circulate blood to the brain and other vital organs:
What is cardiac arrest?
Keep giving sets of 5 back blows and 5 chest presses to the baby until:
What is until they can cough forcefully, cry, breathe, or are unresponsive?
The amount of time after cardiovascular arrest, at which brain damage can begin:
What is 4-6 minutes?
The five steps in obtaining consent:
What are 1) State your name, 2) state the type and level of training that you have, 3) explain what you think is wrong, 4) explain what you plan to do, and 5) ask if you may help.
Send someone to call 911, obtain an AED, a first aid kit, interview bystanders with SAMPLE, do a head-to-toe check, and then roll the person onto their side into recovery position:
What is what to do if the person is responsive but not fully awake?
The position at which you tilt a child's head at when giving rescue breaths:
What is slightly past-neutral position?
You are alone, choking, but can try to save your life:
What is Call 911 (or another emergency number landline), give yourself abdominal thrusts or bend over and press your abdomen against a firm object (chair, railing, etc.)?
*Daily Double*
To use an AED on an adult, you must:
What is 1) Turn the device on, 2) Remove any clothes or garnments to expose a person's chest, 3) Dry the skin if it is wet, 4) Apply the AED pads after peeling the pads to expose the adhesive, 5) Place on pad on the upper right chest and the other on the lower left side of the chest, below the armpit, 6) Plug the connector cable into the AED machine, 7) Follow the device's instructions, and 8) Resume CPR after following the device's directions?