Before Giving Care
A network of professionals linked together to provide the best care for people in all types of emergencies.
What is the EMS system?
Used when a person is responsive but not fully awake.
What are Recovery Positions?
Occurs when blood flow to part of the heart muscle is blocked.
What is a heart attack?
Foods, household objects, or toys.
What are chocking hazards?
Respiratory Distress.
What is trouble breathing?
Unusual sounds, unusual odors, unusual sights, and unusual behaviors.
What are signs of an emergency?
Used when checking a responsive person.
What is SAMPLE?
The pain or discomfort is persistent, lasting longer than 3 to 5 minutes, or going away and then coming back.
Panicked, confused, or surprised facial expressions followed by coughing.
What are signs and symptoms of choking?
The most common way to take long-term control and quick-relief (rescue) medications is by inhaling them.
What are asthma inhalers and nebulizers?
Equipment used to prevent pathogens from contaminating your skin, mucous membranes, or clothing.
What is PPE?
What to do when checking a person who is unresponsive.
Check for responsiveness and breathing for no more than 5-10 seconds.
Occurs when the heart stops beating or beats too ineffectively to circulate blood to the brain and other vital organs.
What is a cardiac arrest?
A combination of 5 back blows followed by 5 chest thrusts (instead of abdominal thrusts).
What is caring for an infant who is choking?
Wheezing or coughing, rapid shallow breathing, and sweating.
What are signs and symptoms of an asthma attack?
Laws that usually protect responders who act the way a reasonable and prudent person would act if that person were in the same situation.
What are Good Samaritan Laws?
What you do if you detect signs or symptoms of illness or injury.
What is Reassuring the person by telling him or her that you will help and that EMS personnel have been called (if appropriate)?
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation used to keep oxygenated blood moving to the brain and other vital organs until advanced medical help arrives.
What is CPR?
Give a combination of 5 back blows (blows between the shoulder blades) followed by 5 abdominal thrusts.
What is caring for an adult who is choking?
A person who is having a severe, life-threatening allergic reaction.
What is anaphylaxis?
Check, call, care.
What are the Emergency Action Steps?
Being able to communicate and interact effectively with the person who is injured or ill can increase the person’s comfort level with you.
What are Strategies for Gathering Information Effectively?
corrects the underlying problem for some people who go into sudden cardiac arrest by delivering a shock to the heart.
What is an AED?
Carefully lower him or her to the ground and, if you are trained, begin CPR, starting with chest compressions followed by rescue breaths.
What is caring for someone who is unresponsive from choking?
Occurs when blood flow to part of the brain is interrupted by a blood clot, resulting in the death of brain cells.
What is a stroke?