Foundations
Unexpected situations that require immediate action.
What is Emergency?
When blood flow to part of the heart muscle is blocked.
What is Heart Attack?
The body's ability to maintain an internal temperature within the accessible range despite external conditions.
What is Thermoregulation?
Illness that strikes suddenly and usually only lasts for a short period of time.
What is Acute Illness?
When the circulatory system fails to deliver enough oxygen-rich blood to the body's tissues and organs.
What is Shock?
What is Emergency Medical Services (EMS) System?
When the heart stops beating or beats too ineffectively to circulate blood to the brain and other vital organs.
What is Cardiac Arrest?
Painful muscle spasms usually in the legs and abdomen that are caused by loss of fluids and electrolytes as a result of sweating.
What is Heat Cramps?
Illness that someone lives with or is an ongoing basis that often requires continuous treatment.
What is Chronic Illness?
The bleeding that happens inside the body instead of outside.
What is Internal Bleeding?
Protect responders who act the way a "reasonable and prudent person" would act if that person were in the same situation.
What is Good Samaritan Laws?
Medicine that helps to prevent blood clotting.
What is Asprin?
When fluids lost through sweating are not replaced.
What is Heat Exhaustion?
Breathing that is faster and shallower than normal.
What is Hyperventilation?
The body getting pierced or impaled by a sharp, narrow object.
What is Penetrating Trama?
Permission from the injured or ill person.
What is Consent?
A cardiac arrest that happens suddenly and without any warning signs.
What is Sudden Cardiac Arrest?
When the body's cooling system is completely overwhelmed and stops working.
What is Heat Stroke?
The difficulty of breathing.
What is Respiratory Distress?
The damage to the skin when rubbed against something rough.
What is Abrasion?
Equipment used to prevent pathogens from contaminating your skin, mucous membranes or clothing.
What is Personal Protective Equipment?
Skill 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?
The body losing heat faster than it can produce heat.
What is Hypothermia?
Chronic illness causing inflammation and narrowing of the airways to make breathing difficult.
What is Asthma?
The piercing from a sharp object through the skin.
What is Punture Wound?