Before Giving Care
1. Recognizing that an emergency exists
2. Deciding to take action
3. Activating the EMS system
4. Giving care until EMS personnel take over
What is the steps of EMS?
Your first responsibility at any scene
What is Personal Safety.
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.
A bag with all the items that would help during an emergency
What is a First Aid Kit?
To observe standard precautions means?
To follow a set of infection control practices used whether or not an infection is suspected.
Occurs when the heart stops beating or beats too ineffectively to circulate blood to the brain and other vital organs
What is Cardiac Arrest.
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
A small, portable computerized device that allows a minimally trained bystander to provide defibrillation much faster than EMS.
What is an AED?
High - performance CPR includes?
High quality CPR skills and an efficient team approach.
A series of actions that could save someone from cardiac arrest
What is Cardiac Chain of Survival.
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.
An unusual sound, odors, sights, behaviors
What is a sign of emergency?
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.
A skill that is used when a person is in cardiac arrest to keep oxygenated blood moving to the brain and other vital organs until advanced medical help arrives.
What is CPR.
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.
Protects responders who act the way a "reasonable and prudent person" would act if that were in the same situation
What is the Good Samaritan Laws?
A set of regulations and ethical considerations that define the scope, or extent, and limits of the EMT's job
What is Scope of Practice.
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.