Chapter 1
A network of professionals linked together to provide the best care for people in all different types of emergencies
What is EMS?
Signs and symtoms
What is the S in SAMPLE?
Occurs when blood flow to part of the Heart muscle is blocked.
What is a Hear Attack?
Nuts and seeds, chunks of fruit, popcorn, chunks of meet or cheese
What are foods that are choking hazards?
an illness that strikes suddenly and usually only lasts for a short period of time.
What is an acute illness?
The smell of smoke, gas, or unrecognizable odor
What is an unusual odor that's a sign of an emergency?
Events leading up to the situation
True or False; Cardiac Arrest is the same as a Heart Attack.
What is False?
Coins, buttons, Marbles, Magnets
What are objects that are Choking Hazards?
An illness that a person lives with on an ongoing basis that often requires continuous treatment to be managed.
What is a chronic illness.
Downed electrical wires, sparks, smoke, or fire
What is unusual sights that could sign an Emergency?
Checking Head to toe
What is the way to check if someone is okay or not?
Occurs when the Heart stops beating or beats too inefficiently to circulate blood to the brain and other vital organs.
What is Cardiac Arrest?
Panicked, Confused, surprised facial expression
What are signs that someone is choking?
Trouble breathing, pain such as chest pain, abdominal pain, or a headache, Nausea, a fever.
What are symptoms for an illness?
Laws that protect responders that act the way a "usual and prudent person" would act if that person were in the same situation.
What is Good Samaritan Laws?
Allergies
What is the A in SAMPLE
Chest pains, Discomfort and pain in one or both arms, Nausea, sweating.
What are Sypmtoms of a Heart Attack?
5 breaths
How many breaths to give in a row?
Breathing that is faster and shorter than normal.
What is hyperventilation?
Fire or Explosion, Drowning, Serious motor vehicle crash, and downed electrical wires.
What are Emergency situations?
SAMPLE
What is an Acronym that can help to check if someone is okay?
Sudden collapse, not responsive or breathing, gasping or agonal breaths
What are symptoms that someone is in Cardiac Arrest?
5 backblows
How many backblows to give?
What is asthma?