Foundations (chapter 1 & 2)
Unusual Sounds, Unusual Odors, Unusual Sights, Unusual Behaviors
What is Signs for Emergency?
Blood flow to part of the heart muscle is blocked.
What is a Heart Attack?
The airway becomes either partially or completely blocked.
What is Choking?
An illness that strikes suddenly and lasts a long time.
What is an acute illness?
A progressive, life threatening conditions in which there are complications with the circulatory system and the organs and body systems begin to fail.
What is shock?
Check, Call, Care
What are the emergency action steps?
When the heart stops beating or is beating too ineffectively
What is cardiac arrest?
Placing one or both of your hands on your throat
What is a universal sign for choking?
An illness that is ongoing and needs continuous treatment.
What is a Chronic Illness?
Bleeding that occurs inside the body and could be a consequence of traumatic injury.
What is internal bleeding?
This protects the responder from financial liability and forces people to help each other.
What is a good Samaritan law?
If someone is showing early signs of a heart attack this can help.
What is Aspirin?
Place yourself behind the person and place on arm across their chest and bend them at the waist as you strike them between their shoulder blades.
What are Back Blows?
Difficulty breathing and is most evident with signs and symptoms such as shortness of breath, hyperventilation, and painful breathing.
What is respiratory distress?
A cut caused by a sharp object or knife or when blunt force splits the skin.
What is a laceration wound?
Speak in a normal voice and tone, try to communicate nonverbally, find others that may understand the situation better, and call the emergency number.
What do you do if the injured speaks a different language or cannot provide answers for themselves?
Recognition, CPR, defibrillation, life support, and integrates post-cardiac arrest care
What is the Cardiac Chain of Survival?
Place your feet between them for stability as you wrap your hands around their waist. Place your finger on their navel and make a fist as you push your hands into their stomach.
What are Abdominal thrusts?
A Chronic Illness which certain things trigger making breathing difficult and narrowing lung airways.
What is Asthma?
When fluids are lost through heat and sweat and is not replaced.
What is heat exhaustion?
Roll the person on the side, put their arm outstretched in front of them, and bend their knees to stabilize the body.
What are recovery positions?
You notice life, the AED is ready, EMS personnel takes over, the scene becomes unsafe, and you have been performing compressions and Breaths for 2 minutes each
Give chest thrusts or abdominal thrusts
What do you do if the person choking is too large or pregnant?
This occurs when blood flow from the brain is interrupted and starts killing brain cells.
What is a stroke?
Occurs when the body's cooling system stops working.
What is a heart stroke?