Definition
Causes
Prevention
What to Look For
What to Do
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The action of giving birth to a child in an emergency.
What is emergency childbirth?
100
Pregnancy, standing in one position for too long, pain, traumatic information, heat, dehydration, not eating enough.
What are causes of fainting?
100
Take your medications, check your blood sugar often, and keep some quick-sugar foods with you at all times.
What you can do to prevent diabetic emergencies?
100
Contractions are two minutes apart or less, the woman says the baby is coming, the baby's head is showing.
What to look for in emergency childbirth?
100
As baby’s head comes out, support it with one hand. Do not push or pull. Once shoulders come out, be prepared for the rest to come out fast! Place baby face down and wrap in clean cloth. After the placenta comes, do not cut the cord. Treat mom and baby for shock.
What to do for emergency childbirth?
200
The spontaneous termination of pregnancy in the first 20 weeks after conception.
What is miscarriage?
200
An imbalance between exercise, food intake, and/or insulin production.
What are causes for a diabetic emergency?
200
Take your prescribed medication and limit the amount of time spent playing video games.
What are ways you can prevent seizures?
200
Sense of urgency, hallucinations, appearance of daydreaming, uncontrollable muscle movement, eyes rolling, drool in the mouth
What to look for in seizures?
200
Give the person something sugary to drink.
What do for a diabetic emergency?
300
A brief period of unconsciousness that happens when there isn't enough blood flowing to the brain.
What is fainting?
300
Head injuries, fever, certain medical conditions, poisons (including drugs), drug or alcohol withdrawal, heat stroke, video games, infection
What are causes for a seizure?
300
Keep hydrated and nourished, wear loose clothing around the neck, and when standing up from sitting or laying down, do so slowly.
What are ways you can prevent fainting?
300
A brief period of unconsciousness
What to look for in fainting?
300
Allow the person to move without restraint. Protect the person from injury by moving furniture, protecting the head with blankets and keeping other dangers away.
What to do if a person is having a seizure?
400
Is an episode of abnormal electrical signals in the brain that result in disturbed brain function, shaking or contraction of limbs, and altered consciousness.
What is a seizure?
400
The birds and the bees.
What are the causes of emergency childbirth?
400
Talk to your doctor.
What is a way you can prevent miscarriage?
400
Changes in level of consciousness, changes in behaviour, rapid breathing, cool, sweaty skin, skin that is paler than normal, feeling and looking ill
What to look for in a diabetic emergency?
400
Lay the person in the recovery position
What to do if a person has fainted?
500
Happens when the body cannot control the level of sugar in the blood.
What is a diabetic emergency?
500
Hormonal or genetic reasons, abnormalities in the womb, infection, certain illness, age, trauma
What are causes for miscarriage?
500
Talk to your parents?
What is a way you can prevent emergency childbirth?
500
Appearance of intoxication
What to look for in a diabetic emergency?
500
Put something in the person’s mouth.
What to NOT do in a seizure.
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