Chapter 1
A network of individuals linked together to provide the best care for people
What is EMS?
Harmful organisms that spread from person to person by a contaminated object or surface.
What are pathogens?
If the child's parent or guardian is present make sure to ask for this before starting CPR
What is consent?
When the law assumes the person would give consent if he or she were able to
What is implied consent?
The loss of measurable signs of life as the result of a blocked airway or loss of breathing?
What is Secondary Cardiac Arrest.
Equipment used to prevent pathogens from contaminating skin or clothing.
What is personal protective equipment?
Occurs when blood flow to part of the heart muscle is blocked.
What is a heart attack?
What is SAMPLE?
Used to protect a person from contact with saliva and other bodily fluids, like blood, as you give rescue breaths.
What are breathing barriers?
Giving sets of 30 chest compressions and followed by two sets of rescue breaths.
What is CPR?
Three simple steps to take in order to guide your actions in any emergency situation.
What are check, call, and care?
Occurs when the heart stops beating or beats too ineffectively to circulate blood.
What is cardiac arrest?
Interview the person, check each body part, provide care for any conditions
What is checking a responsive person?
Describes five actions that, when performed in rapid succession, increase the person's likelihood of surviving cardiac arrest.
What is the cardiac chain of survival?
Can help prevent blood clotting and is most effective when given soon after the onset of signs and symptoms after a heart attack.
What is aspirin?
Qualified personnel who have received additional training which allows them to perform certain advanced life support skills and administer some medications.
What are EMTS?
Isolated or infrequent gasping in the absence of normal breathing.
What are agonal breaths?
Check for breathing, call 911, interview bystanders, place person into a recovery position.
What is checking an unresponsive person?
A basic CPR skill that creates increased pressure in the chest cavity and direct compression of the heart
What are chest compressions?
For each minute that CPR and use of an AED are delayed, the person's chance of survival reduce by...
What is 10 percent?
Unusual sounds, unusual sights, unusual odors, and unusual behaviors.
What are signs of an emergency
A surgically created opening in the front of the neck that opens into the trachea to form an alternate route for breathing when the upper airway is blocked or damaged.
What is a tracheotomy
Check one body part at a time moving straight down the body.
What is a Head to Toe check?
An automated external defibrillator that is portable and delivers an electric shock through the chest to the heart.
What is an AED
When the pain or discomfort is persistent, lasting longer than 3 to 5 minutes, or going away and then coming back.
What are sign of a heart attack?