CPR (all ages)
The ratio of compressions to breaths used for CPR in all ages.
What is 30:2?
The ratio of the number of back blows to chest thrusts.
What is 5:5?
An illness that somebody lives with on a regular basis and often requires continuous treatment.
What is a chronic illness?
The four signs that an emergency scene may be unsafe.
What are unusual sounds, unusual odors, unusual sights, and unusual behaviors?
It is what legally protects any bystander who aids somebody in need of help.
What are good Samaritan laws?
The range of speed (in BPM) to which one does compressions in CPR.
What is 100 to 120 BPM?
The location in the abdomen where you position your hand for chest thrusts.
What are two fingers above the navel?
An illness that appears only for short periods of time.
What is an acute illness?
It should be done when you, or somebody else, is in a life-threatening situation.
What is activating the EMS system?
The things that you must state to the injured person (if responsive) before giving care.
What are your name, the type/level of training, what you think is wrong, what you plan to do, and asking for consent?
The depth of compressions in CPR for adults, children, and infants, respectively.
What is at least 2 inches, about 2 inches, and about 1.5 inches?
It signals that you may stop giving care to somebody who is choking.
What are the person can cough forcefully, speak, or EMS personnel arrive?
The type of reaction that an EPI pen treats.
What are allergic reactions?
The first link in the pediatric chain of survival.
What is prevention?
The microorganisms found in most bodily fluids that can result in illness.
What are pathogens?
The three primary reasons that the chest does not rise when one does rescue breaths to another person during CPR.
What are not tilting the head, not closing the nose, and a blockage in the throat?
The process that must be done when the person who is choking becomes unresponsive.
What is gently laying the unresponsive choking victim on a form/hard surface and preforming CPR?
The causes of most asthma attacks.
What are triggers?
The final link in the adult chain of survival.
What is recovery?
The meaning of the letters in the acronym S.A.M.
What is Signs and Symptoms, Allergies, and Medications?
The full (formal) name of CPR.
What is cardiopulmonary resuscitation
The extra step added to CPR when the choking victim becomes unresponsive.
What is checking the throat and preforming a finger sweep if the object is visible?
The type of medicine that those with severe allergic reactions will often have with them (the full/formal name).
What is an epinephrine auto injector?
The full/formal name for EMS and PPE, respectively.
What is Emergency Medical Services and Personal Protective Equipment?
The machine that is put in ones heart to control and monitor heart rate.
What is a pacemaker?