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?
Choking hazards for children younger than 4 years old
What is Foods and Household Objects and Toys?
An illness that strikes suddenly and usually only lasts for a short period of time.
What is an acute illness?
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?
Name 2 actions do you do when an adult or child is choking.
What is back blows and abominable thrusts?
an illness that a person lives with on an ongoing basis and that often requires continuous treatment to manage.
What is a chronic illness?
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?
Name 2 actions you do when an infant is choking.
What is back blows and chest thrusts?
Difficulty breathing, is evidenced by signs and symptoms such as shortness of breath, gasping for breath.
What is Respiratory distress?
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?
4-6 minutes of the body without oxygen
What is brain damage can begin?
Name signs or symptoms of choking.
What is panicked, confused facial expressions and coughing forcefully or weakly?
Breathing that is faster and shallower than normal, or breathing that is uncomfortable or painful.
What is Hyperventilation?
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?
8-10 minutes of the body with oxygen
What is brain damage can become irreversible?
How many sets of back blows and abominable thrusts do you perform?
What is until the person is unresponsive or they are coughing or speaking?
Who's daddy?
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