Checking an Injured or Ill Person
When a person is responsive but not fully awake, put the person in what position.
What is a recovery position?
Blood flow to part of the heart muscle is blocked.
What is a heart attack?
Items or foods that can block the airways.
What is a choking hazard?
Illness which strikes suddenly and lost short periods of time.
What is an acute illness?
Life-threatening condition where the circulatory system fails to deliver enough oxygen rich blood to tissues and organs.
What is shock?
To better understand the situation use the acronym...
What is SAMPLE?
Occurs when the heart stops beating or beats ineffectively to circulate blood to the brain and other vital organs.
What is cardiac arrest?
Hitting an individual between the shoulder blades while bent over.
What are back blows?
Illness which a person lives with with ongoing symptoms and may require continuous treatment to control.
What is a chronic illness?
Bleeding that occurs inside the body into a cavity or space in the body.
What is Internal bleeding?
A person is not responding and breathing or gasping.
What is an unresponsive person?
If early symptoms of a heart attack occur offer the person an appropriate dose of...
What is Aspirin?
Instead of abdominal thrusts infants receive...
What are chest thrusts?
Difficulty breathing with signs such as shortness of breath.
What is respiratory distress?
Injury which is caused by an impact with a flat object or surface.
What is Blunt trauma?
The way to check each part of the body at a time moving straight down is...
What is a head to toe examination?
In this time the brain damage can begin from cardiac arrest.
What is 4-6 minutes?
A person with a panicked or confused facial expressing with hands around their throat.
What are symptoms of choking?
Breathing which is faster and shallower than normal.
What is hyperventilation?
Injury where the body is pierced with a sharp, narrow object or impaled on a sharp object.
What is Penetrating trauma?
If a child's parent is present remember to obtain...
What is consent?
Isolated or infrequent gasping in the absence of normal breathing can be...
What is Agonal Breaths?
Begin what when the person becomes unresponsive?
What is CPR?
Respiratory distress can lead to...
What is respiratory arrest?
Portion of the skin and sometime tissue is completely or partially torn away.
What is an avulsion?