Chapter 1 (Foundations)
Unexpected situation that requires immediate action?
What is Emergency?
What are you required to ask when the injured person is a child and their parent is present?
What is consent
Attack that occurs when blood flow to part of the heart muscle is blocked
What is a heart attack
What are the two main choking hazards?
An illness that strikes suddenly and usually only lasts for a short period of time?
What is an acute illness
What does EMS stand for?
What is Emergency medical services system?
What does SAMPLE stand for when interviewing an injured person?
What is signs and symptoms, allergies, medications, pertinent medical history, last food and drink and events leading up to the incident
Signs and symptoms of a heart attack?
What is pain or discomfort is persistent, lasting longer than 3 to 5 minutes, or going away and then coming back.
What do you perform when an adult or child is choking?
What are back blows and abdominal thrusts
An illness that a person lives with on an ongoing basis and that often requires continuous treatment to manage?
What is a chronic illness
What are the 4 general signs of an emergency?
What are unusual sounds, unusual odors, unusual sights and unusual behaviors?
What do you do if you detect signs and symptoms of illness or injury?
What is Reassure the person by telling him or her that you will help and that EMS personnel have been called
Occurs when the heart stops beating or beats too ineffectively to circulate blood to the brain and other vital organs?
What is cardiac arrest
Blows between the shoulder blades?
What are back blows
Breathing that is faster and shallower than normal?
What is hyperventilation
A law enacted to legally protect trained providers who voluntarily stop to help, act prudently, do not provide care beyond training, and are not completely careless in delivering emergency care.
What is Good Samaritan Law?
If a person is unresponsive, what are the 3 things you do?
What is call 9-1-1, get an AED and First Aid kit
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?
Inward and upward thrusts just above the navel?
What are abdominal thrusts
The absence of breathing?
What is respiratory arrest
What are the 4 basic steps in the EMS system?
What is recognizing that an emergency exists, deciding to take action, activating the EMS system and giving care until the EMS personnel takes over
When do you use SAMPLE?
What is checking a responsive person
Chest compression rate for all ages?
What is 100-120 compressions/min
If a person who is choking becomes unresponsive and you start to perform CPR, what do you do if you see an object in the person's mouth?
What is remove it using your finger only if you actually see the object. If you cannot see the object and you put your finger in the person’s mouth, you might accidentally push the object deeper into the person’s throat.
A chronic illness in which certain substances or conditions, called triggers, cause inflammation and narrowing of the airways, making breathing difficult?
What is asthma