Foundations
A network of professionals linked together to provide the best care for people in all types of emergencies.
What is Emergency Medical Services (EMS)?
S- signs and symptoms A- allergies M- medications P - pertinent medical history L - last food or drink E - events leading up
What does SAMPLE mean?
Occurs when blood flow to a part of the heart muscle is blocked
What is a heart attack?
Blows between the shoulder blades to help clear someones airway
What is back blows?
An illness that strikes suddenly and usually only lasts for a short period of time
What is acute illness?
The designated emergency number.
What is 911?
Determine if you need to call 911, help put the person in a comfortable position, reassure the person, give care to the conditions you have training for, and be alert to the person's condition worsening.
What do you do if you detect signs of injury or illness?
Occurs when the heart stops beating or beats too ineffectively to circulate blood to the brain or other vital organs
What is cardiac arrest?
Inward and upward thrusts just above the naval to stop someone from choking
What is abdominal thrusts?
An illness that a person lives with on an ongoing basis and that often requires continuous treatment.
What is chronic illness?
Unusual sounds, odors, sights, and behaviors are signs of emergency.
What are signs of emergency?
Someone moving, opening his or her eyes, breathing, or moaning
What is a responsive patient?
Absence of normal breathing, can occur after the heart stops breathing
What is agonal breaths?
Position yourself to the side and slightly behind the person, place one arm across their chest and start back blows, then have the person stand straight, make a fist above the person's naval and start abdominal thrusts.
What do you do when an adult or child is choking?
Difficulty breathing, is evidenced by signs and symptoms such as shortness of breath and gasping for air.
What is respiratory distress?
This protects responders who act the way a "reasonable and prudent" would act if that person was in the same situation.
What are Good Samaritan Laws?
Not breathing, only gasping, not answering you, eyes closed with no movement
What is an unresponsive patient?
Have someone call 911, begin CPR immediately, and use an AED as soon as possible.
What do you do when someone is experiencing cardiac arrest?
Place forearm along infants back, place other forearm across the front, then hold the infant's jaw with your hand and apply back blows, then place infant's back on your forearm, place two finger 1 1/2 inches into the infant's chest.
How do you help a choking infant?
Breathing that is faster and shallower then normal or breathing that is uncomfortable or painful
What is hyperventilation?
Permission from the ill or injured person to apply care, given to the parent or guardian if the person is a minor.
What is consent?
Send someone to call 911, get an AED kit and first aid kit, roll the person on their back, and immediately start CPR.
What do you do if someone is unresponsive?
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and skill used when a person is in cardiac arrest to keep blood moving to the brain and other vital organs
What is CPR?
Carefully lower them to the ground, begin CPR, then with each rescue breath look in the person's mouth for the lodged object
How do you help someone who is unresponsive and choking?
Respiratory distress can lead to complete absence of breathing.
What is respiratory arrest?