Category 1
Immediate emergency care given to a sick or injured person before professional medical care arrives
First aid
A kind of rubber used to make thin gloves for health care professionals
Latex
Layers of cloth and other materials that protect a wound
Dressing
A condition which a person's breathing has stopped
Respiratory failure
Rescue breathing
Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
Laws that protect people helps other in emergencies
Good Samaritan laws
A way of giving firm upward thrusts below a person's rib cage to force out an object from the throat
Heimlich maneuver
The act of pressing against the chest over and over
Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
Putting oxygen from a rescuer's lungs into an unconscious person's lungs to help the person breathe
Rescue breathing
Free from bacteria
Sterile
Methods of self-protection that prevent contact with a person's blood or body fluids
Universal precautions
A sign made by grabbing the throat with the hand or hands to show a person is choking
Universal distress signal
Failure of the circulatory system to provide enough blood to the body
Shock
A condition in which the heart has stopped beating and there is no pulse
Cardiac arrest
A place on the body where an artery can be pressed against a bone to stop bleeding in an arm or a leg
Pressure point
Poisoning that happens after a harmful material is swallowed
Oral poisoning
Poisoning causes by breathing in harmful fumes
Inhalation poisoning
Short-term loss of consciousness caused by too little blood to the brain
Fainting
A condition that comes from hard physical work in a very hot place
Heat exhaustion
A condition that comes form being in high heat too long
Heatstroke
Poisoning that happens when harmful materials are absorbed through the skin
Contact poisoning
The tearing or stretching of tenons or ligaments that connect joints
Sprain
A serious disease that affects the nervous system
Rabies
A serious loss of body heat that comes from being in the cold too long
Hypothermia
A tissue injury caused by being in extreme cold
Frostbite