Foundations
A network of professionals linked together to provide the best care for people in all types of emergencies.
What is an EMS system?
Your first goal is to identify and care for any life-threatening conditions.
What is gathering information?
When blood flow to part of the heart muscle is blocked.
What is a heart attack?
When the airway becomes either partially or completely blocked by a foreign object, such as a piece of food.
What is choking?
You can help by providing appropriate first aid care, summoning help if needed, and keeping the person comfortable until help arrives.
What do you do with an ill person?
A stopped vehicle on the roadside or a car that has run off the road, downed electrical wires, sparks, smoke, or, fire, a person who suddenly collapses or is lying motionless, signs of symptoms of illness or injury, such as profuse sweating for no apparent reason or an uncharacteristic skin color.
What are unusual sights?
If the person does not respond in any way and is not breathing or is only gasping.
What is unresponsiveness?
A skill that is used when a person is in cardiac arrest to keep oxygenated blood moving to the brain and other vital organs until advanced medical help arrives.
What is CPR?
Panicked or confused or surprised facial expression, hands on throat, coughing, not able to cough.
What are symptoms of choking?
An illness that strives suddenly and unusually that only lasts for a short period of time.
What is an acute illness?
Protects the responder from financial liability, were developed to encourage people to help others in emergency situations.
What is a Good Samaritan Law?
Place infant on his or her side, or you can position the infant face-down along your forearm, supporting the infant's head and neck while keeping the mouth and nose clear.
What are recovery positions for infant?
When the heart stops beating or beats too ineffectively to circulate blood to the brain and other vital organs.
What is cardiac arrest?
The passageway between the lungs and mouth that allows life-sustaining oxygen to flow into the body.
What is the Airway.
An illness that a person lives with an ongoing basis and that often requires continuous treatment to manage.
What is a chronic illness?
An injured or I'll person who needs medical attention and cannot be moved, fire or explosion, downed electrical wires, swiftly moving or rapidly rising flood waters, drowning, presence of poisonous gas, and serious moter-vehicle collisions are all what.
What is an emergency situation?
Signs and symptoms
Allergies
Medications
Pertinent medical history
Last food or drink
Events leading up to the incident
What is S-A-M-P-L-E?
Isolated or infrequent gasping in the absence of normal breathing.
What are agonal breaths?
Place one arm diagonally across the person;s chest and bend the person forward at the waist so that the person;s upper body is as close to parallel to the ground as possible and firmly strike the person between the shoulder blades with the heel of your other hand.
What are back blows?
Diffuculty breathing
What is respiratory distress?
Someone not able to grant you consent in an emergency, but you assume that of they could, they would.
What is implied consent?
When a person is moving, opening his or her eyes, or moaning, and is breathing normally.
What is a responsive person?
5 actions that, when performed in rapid succession, can increase the person's likelihood of surviving cardiac arrest.
What is the cardiac chain of survival?
Wrap your arms around the person's waist and find the person's naval by placing one finger on the person's naval. Make a fist with your other hand and place the thumb side just above your fingers. Cover your first with your other hand and give a quick inward and upward thrusts into the person's abdomen.
What are abdominal thrusts?
Breathing that is faster and shallower than normal.
What is hyperventilation?