Chapter 1 - Before Giving Care
Protect responders who act the way a "reasonable and prudent" person would act if that person were in the same situation.
What are Good Samaritan Laws?
Blood flow to part of the heart muscle is blocked.
What is a heart attack?
Foods and household objects
What are choking hazards?
Illness that strikes suddenly and usually only lasts for a short period of time.
What is an acute illness?
A progressive, life-threatening condition in which the circulatory system fails to deliver enough oxygen-rich blood to the body's tissues and organs.
What is shock?
Applies when a minor needs emergency medical assistance and the minor's parent or guardian isn't present.
What is implied consent?
The heart stops beating or beats too ineffectively to circulate blood to the brain and other vital organs.
What is cardiac arrest?
Panicked, confused, or surprised facial expressions; hands to the throat; coughing or trying to cough but unable.
What are the signs of choking?
Illness that a person lives with on an ongoing basis and that often requires continuous treatment to manage.
What is a chronic illness?
Something rubs roughly against the skin, causing damage to the skin's surface.
What is an abrasion?
Spread when blood from an infected person enters the bloodstream of a person who isn't infected.
What are bloodborne pathogens?
Brain damage can become irreversible.
What can happen 8-10 minutes after a heart attack?
Firmly strike the person between the shoulder blades with the heel of your other hand.
What are back blows?
Breathing that's faster and shallower than normal.
What is hyperventilation?
Device placed around an arm or leg to constrict blood vessels and stop blood flow to a wound.
What is a tourniquet?
Check-call-care
What are the emergency action steps?
Prevention, early CPR, activation of the EMS system, early advanced life support, and integrated post-cardiac arrest care.
What is the pediatric cardiac chain of survival?
Inward and upward thrusts into the person's abdomen using your fists.
What are abdominal thrusts?
Chronic illness in which certain substances or conditions, called triggers, cause inflammation and narrowing of the airways, making breathing difficult.
What is asthma?
Occurs when the bones that meet at a joint move out of their normal position.
What is a dislocation?
Expelled into the air when an infected person breathes, coughs, or sneezes.
What are airborne pathogens?
Skill that's 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?
Kneel down to get on their level.
What do you do if you're giving back blows or abdominal thrusts to a child?
Drug that slows or stops the effects of anaphylaxis.
What is epinephrine?
Rest, Immobilize, Cold, Elevate
What is RICE?