Medical Emergencies
Persistent shortness of breath, when someone can't recover their normal breathing.
What is Breathing Difficulty?
A odorless, colorless gas that can kill you.
What is Carbon Monoxide?
A method of crisis intervention that addresses the sometimes overwhelming effects of a crisis, or critical incident, on first responders.
What is Critical incident stress debriefing, or CISD?
Suffocation due to submerging under water or other liquid.
What is Drowning?
Causes your immune system to release a flood of chemicals that can cause you to go into shock — your blood pressure drops suddenly and your airways narrow, blocking breathing.
What is Anaphylaxis Shock?
Symptoms of feelings of tightness, squeezing or aching in the chest and arms, which can spread.
What is a Heart attack?
Sensations that appear to be real but are created within the mind.
What are Hallucinations?
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
What is Empathy?
A condition whose symptoms may include heavy sweating and a rapid pulse, a result of your body overheating.
What is Heat Exhaustion?
The soft tissue below the skin surface is damaged, but there is no break in the skin.
What is a Closed Wound?
A sudden, uncontrolled electrical disturbance in the brain.
What is a Seizure?
Class of drugs that include the illegal drug heroin, fentanyl, and pain relievers available legally by prescription.
What are Opioids?
A state of shock caused by a sudden illness, an accident, or the death of a loved one.
What is Emotional Shock?
Injury to body tissues caused by exposure to extreme cold, typically affecting the nose, fingers, or toes and sometimes resulting in gangrene.
What is Hypothermia?
Oozing from the wound and it usually stops in a few minutes with little assistance.
What is a Capillary Bleed?
Hives, facial flushing and swelling, difficulty breathing, throat tightness and loss of consciousness.
What is Allergic reaction or Anaphylaxis?
A substance that is capable of causing the illness or death of a living organism when introduced or absorbed.
What is a Poison?
Self inflicted death.
What is Suicide?
A condition caused by your body overheating, usually as a result of prolonged exposure to or physical exertion in high temperatures.
What is Heat Stroke?
A wound which is commonly deeper and more irregular in shape, often characterized by jagged edges and possible bruising or bleeding.
What is a Laceration?
This is when an obstruction blocks the windpipe, causing a person to be severely short of breath.
What is Choking?
Class of organic chemicals that disrupt the mechanisms by which nerves transfer messages to organs.
What is a Nerve Agent?
A psychiatric disorder that can occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event such as a natural disaster, a serious accident, a terrorist act, war/combat, rape or other violent personal assault.
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD?
Painful, involuntary muscle spasms that usually occur during heavy exercise in hot environments.
What are Heat Cramps?
A spontaneous nose bleed with no apparent cause.
What is Epistaxis?