Bleeding
The most important step to stop bleeding.
Direct Pressure
The life-threatening condition in which the person is disoriented, pale, sweating, and has dull staring eyes after some type of emergency situation.
Shock
The first emergency action step that should be taken when you are helping a person that has been injured.
Check the scene for safety.
You should perform this many chest compressions during cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
30
When performing rescue breaths on a person who is unconscious and not breathing, you should be looking at this.
The chest to make sure it is rising and falling when putting rescue breaths in.
You should not do this action during a nosebleed because it will allow blood to run down your throat.
Tilt your head back.
When dealing with blood, something that you should wear as a universal precaution.
Sterile Latex Gloves
If you do not do this during the emergency action steps, you will be performing CPR forever without help.
Call 911.
You must perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation on this type of surface.
Hard flat surface.
The very first step in the Heimlich Maneuver.
Ask for consent.
When helping a person with severe bleeding, you should do this when the first gauze pad is soaking with blood.
Add another gauze pad to the wound do not take the first one away.
The first and most important step in treating a person who swallowed poison.
Call Poison Control
You would perform this if during the emergency action steps you find that the person is unconscious and not breathing
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
When performing chest compressions during cardiopulmonary resuscitation, you must push the chest down at least this many inches.
2 inches.
During the Heimlich Maneuver, you should perform 5 back blows and if that does not dislodge the object or food from the person's throat then do 5 of these.
Upward Abdominal Thrusts
Name one extra step that you could take along with direct pressure over the wound to stop severe bleeding.
Elevate the injured area over the level of the heart or pressure points.
An object that you can use instead of tweezers to get a bee stinger out of the skin.
Something with a flat edge like a credit card or ID.
You should do this if the scene is unsafe for you to help the person who is injured.
Call 911 and allow a trained professional to deal with the situation.
When performing the emergency action steps you find the person is unconscious and not breathing. You should do this, the first step in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
2 Rescue Breaths
During the unconscious choking process, after you do 30 chest compressions and look in the mouth for an object and sweep it out, you would do this to make sure the airway is clear.
2 Rescue Breaths
The most serious and life threatening type of wound.
Avulsion
Name 2 things that you could do to help a person who was bitten by a poisonous snake.
Keep them calm to lower their heart rate, keep the body part below the level of the heart, no ice or heat, get them to the hospital as soon as possible, or suck out the poison.
The law that protects a person if they do something wrong during a life saving process.
Good Samaritan Laws
Name 2 important body position techniques that can have an impact on the effectiveness of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Kneeling to the side of the patient with your elbows straight/locked and shoulders over the top of your hands.
Name a reason why the rescue breaths might not make the chest rise and fall during cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Not breathing hard enough or you did not use the head tilt/chin lift to open the airway.