Vocabulary
Introduction
Medical/Legal
Human Body
Random
100

spread around blood from an infected person to an uninfected person

What is pathogens

100

- unusual sounds 

- unusual ordor

-unusual sights

- unusual behavoir

What is signs of an emergency

100

What is sudden cardiac arrest.

congenital heart disorder are at higher risk for sudden cardiac arrest.

100

Place one AED pad on the upper ____ side of the chest and the other on the

lower ___ side of the chest, below the armpit.

Right & left

100

The loss of measurable signs of life as the result of a blocked airway or loss of breathing?

What is Secondary Cardiac Arrest.

200
occurs when the heart stops breathing

What is cardiac arrest

200

If you detect signs or symptoms of illness or injury

Reassure the person by telling him or her that you

will help and that EMS personnel have been called

(if appropriate).

200

A legal concept referring to the assumption that an unresponsive person would give permission to be helped if responsive.

What is implied consent.

200

TRUE OR FALSE: No one can touch the human body while aed is giving a scan 

True

200

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

300

A person who has a known arrhythmia (irregularheartbeat) may have a pacemaker or an ICD.These are small devices that are surgicallyimplanted under the skin to automatically prevent or correct an irregular heartbeat.

Pacemakers and implantable

cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs).

300

Which of the following statments about DNR orders are false. A. A DNR order requires a signature from a physician. 

B. You do not actually have to see the order, verbal comfirmation from a family member is sufficient. 

C. Mentally competent patients may refuse care.

What is Answer B. You do not actually have to see the order, verbal comfirmation from a family member is sufficient.

300

Protect responders who are there for the good sake in an emergency. A person who acts in a responsible and prudent way

What is good samaritan laws

300

Some example of Recovery Positions are:

Extend the person’s arm that is closest to you above the person’s head.

 Roll the person toward yourself onto his or herside, so that the person’s head rests on his or her extended arm. 

Bend both of the person’s knees to stabilize the body.

300

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.

400

To give abdominal thrusts,stand behind the person, with one foot in front

 what is Abdominal thrusts.

400

Before offering aspirin, make sure the person is

responsive, able to chew and swallow, and allowed

to have aspirin. Ask the person:

Are you allergic to aspirin?

Q Do you have a stomach ulcer or stomach

disease?

Q Are you taking any blood thinners, such as

warfarin (CoumadinTM)?

Q Have you ever been told by a healthcare

provider to avoid taking aspirin?

400

How many chest compressions of cpr

30 each set

400

A life-threatening BLS emergency in which breathing is absent or not normal and the heart is still beating?

What is Respiratory Arrest.

400

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.

500
is consent required for a child or minors  (anyone under 18)

Both

500

Signs and symptoms of heart attack

 The pain or discomfort is persistent, lasting longer than 3 to 5 minutes, or going away and then coming back.

500

How to calm down someone while asking to give care

Reassure the person. Anxiety increases the

person’s discomfort.

500

 Two abnormal heart rhythms in particular, ventricular fibrillation (V-fib) andventricular tachycardia (V-tach), can lead to

Cardiac arrest

500

If the child is able to speak to you or is coughing forcefully, What is the correct way to act?

Encourage the child to keep coughing, but be prepared to give first aid for choking if the child’s condition changes.

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