Before Giving Care
The 4 basic steps in your role in the EMS System
What is Recognizing an emergency exists, Deciding to take action, Activating the EMS System, Giving care until EMS personnel take over?
When to check an infant (birth to 1 year)
What is check the infant while he or she is held or seated in the parent's lap?
Occurs when blood flow to part of the heart muscle is blocked.
What is Heart Attack?
The dominant pacemaker of the heart is...
What is SA Node.
The loss of measurable signs of life as the result of a blocked airway or loss of breathing?
What is Secondary Cardiac Arrest.
The EMS abbreviation
What is The Emergency Medical Services System?
When to check a toddler (1 to 3 years old)
What is allowing the toddler to hold a special toy or blanket that comforts them?
Sign of a heart attack.
What is the pain or discomfort is persistent, lasting longer that 3 to 5 minutes, or going away and then coming back?
List the four chambers of the heart.
What is right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle.
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
The 4 signs of an emergency
What is Unusual Sounds, Unusual Odors, Unusual Sights, Unusual Behaviors?
When to check school-age children (5-12 years old)
What is Answer the child's questions honestly, and let the child know if you are going to do anything that might hurt them?
Occurs when the heart stops beating or beats too ineffectively to circulate blood to the brain and other vital organs.
What is Cardiac Arrest?
The passageway between the mouth and lungs that allows life-sustaining oxygen into the body?
What is the Airway.
Infectious microorganisms in human blood that can cause disease in humans. These pathogens include hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)?
What is Bloodborne Pathogens.
Laws that protect responders who act the way a "reasonable and prudent person" would act if that person were in the same situation
What is Good Samaritan Laws?
When to check an adolescent (12-20 years old)
What is respect their modesty, and be aware that an adolescent may be more comfortable being checked by a person of the same gender?
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.
Heartbeat pulsations of the femoral arteries that can be felt just below the middle of the crease where the leg and torso meet.
What is femoral pulse.
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.
Law that assumes the person would give consent if he or she were able to do so.
What is Implied Consent?
What is Signs and Symptoms, Allergies, Medications, Pertinent medical history, Last food or drink, Events leading up to the incident?
A federal law protecting the privacy of the patients specific health care information and providing the patient with control over how this information is used and distributed
What is HIPAA.
A life-threatening BLS emergency in which breathing is absent or not normal and the heart is still beating?
What is Respiratory Arrest.
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.