BLS
Activate emergency response, High quality CPR, Defibrillation, Advanced Resuscitation, Post cardiac arrest care and Recovery? What is this?
What is the Chain of Survival for out of hospital cardiac arrest?
Compression and breath sequence for adult CPR?
What are 30 compressions and 2 breaths.
List the five major components of scene size up.
What is scene safety, Determine MOI or NOI, BSI, Number of patients and/or resources, What is your general impression of the patient.
My patient is wheezing and gasps that they have asthma. What position could help?
What is the tripod position.
Layers of the skin from the morning air to your bones.
What is the epidermis, the dermis and the subcutaneous layer.
Bonus Question: what is between the skin layers and the bones?
Examples of Advanced Directives.
What are Living Wills, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) and durable power of attorney for health care.
Compression rate?
What is 100 to 120 compressions per minute.
Bonus Question: How deep?
What is an Exsanguinating Bleed?
What is a massive bleed that is a life threat.
Bonus Question: List three kinds of bleeds from different vessels.
My patient is face down in the mud.
What is prone.
What is a contusion.
Bonus Question: what is "Road Rash" called?
When should you withhold CPR?
What are clear signs of death, rescuer exhaustion, rescuer safety, DNR is present, Return of Spontaneous Circulation, another trained provider replaces you, a physician tells you to stop.
What is ROSC?
What is Return of Spontaneous Circulation.
Explain A, B, C of the primary assessment
What is airway, breathing and circulation.
My patient is staring up at the sky and is laying flat in the grass.
What is supine.
Blood that pools between tissue.
What is a hematoma.
Two common maneuvers for opening the airway of an unresponsive patient.
What is the Head Tilt Chin Lift and What is a Jaw Thrust.
Bonus Question: If a spinal injury is suspected which one do you use?
Infants have proportionately large heads. How can you compensate for this when providing CPR?
What is place padding underneath their shoulders.
Name a "Stop and Fix" in the Primary Assessment?
An airway obstruction, a major bleed, inadequate breathing, no pulse.
My patient just told me that they want to sit up and lean agains the wall.
What is a position of comfort.
Three kinds of burns caused by different sources.
What is a thermal burn, a chemical burn and an electrical burn.
When delivering a rescue breath what should you watch for on your patient?
What is chest rise.
What is a BVM?
What is a Bag Valve Mask.
Bonus question: what is the rate when ventilating a patient?
Why do we do a Rapid Trauma exam?
What is to make sure that we don't miss any life-threatening injuries or hidden bleeds on trauma patients.
Gravity is my friend. My patient is vomiting but lying supine. What position can I put them in?
What is the recovery position.
Bonus Question: I leave my patient in a recovery position and go and get more help. Is this abandonment?
Explain The Rule of Nines.
What is estimating the percentage of a body area that is burned by assuming that certain body parts comprise 9% of total body area.