Vocabulary
What EMS stands for
What is emergency medical services?
When to activate the EMS System.
What are emergency situations/conditions.
How long to check for responsiveness and breathing.
What is no longer than 5 to 10 seconds?
Panicked, confused, surprised expression. Someone may place one or both hands on the throat. Person may cough or may not be able to.
How to check a young child who does not appear to have a life-threatening illness or injury. (Hint: ___ to ___)
What is check toe to head?
Spread when blood from an infected person enters the bloodstream of a person who is not infected.
What are bloodborne pathogens.
The four signs of an emergency. (Hint: unusual)
What are unusual odors, unusual sounds, unusual sights, and unusual behaviors?
A legal concept referring to the assumption that an unresponsive person would give permission to be helped if responsive.
What is implied consent.
What care for choking entails.
What are 5 back blows and 5 abdominal thrusts?
The recommended technique to open and maintain the airway of an unresponsive person. It pulls the jaw forward and lifts the tongue away from the back of the throat?
What is Head Tilt-Chin Lift
A small, portable computerized device that allows a minimally trained bystander to provide defibrillation much faster than EMS.
What is an AED?
How to obtain consent.
State your name, the type and level of training you have, what you think is wrong, what you plan to do, and ask if you may help.
What CPR entails.
What are 30 chest compression and 2 breaths x2?
How babies are positioned when given care for choking.
What is the infant's head lower than their chest?
What SAMPLE stands for.
What are signs and symptoms, allergies, medications, pertinent medical history, last food or drink, and event leading up to the incident?
Pathogens that are expelled into the air when an infected person breaths, coughs, or sneezes.
What are airborne pathogens?
The emergency action steps.
What is check, call, care.
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?
The care given when a choking victim becomes unresponsive.
What is CPR?
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 is Chest Compressions.
What PPE stands for.
What is personal protective equipment?
Used to protect you from contact with saliva and other body fluids, such as blood, as you give rescue breaths.
What are breathing barriers?
Place your arm under one of their arms and support the body with you arm crossed over their chest.
How to support someone who is choking?
Action never used if the object in the throat is not visible?
What is finger sweep?
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.