Vocabulary
Unconscious Adult: Recovery Position
Unconscious Adult:
CPR Basics
Unconscious Adult: CPR Special Considerations
Unconscious Adult:
CPR Variations
Unconscious Child
100

Different but valid ways of performing a skill or technique.

Variations

100

This is why we use the recovery position.

It keeps the airway open.

100

Rate of compressions.

100-120 BPM

100

Roll them to their side and clear the airway if they do this.

Vomit

100
If you are ___ you will provide compressions only for CPR.

Unwilling or unable

100

Defined as one year old to onset of puberty.

Child

200

Returning to a normal state of health.

Recovery

200

If you suspect a head, neck, or spinal injury and need to use the recovery position.

Modify and stabilize.

200

Ratio of compressions for an adult unconscious victim.

30:2

200

This is necessary for a heavily pregnant woman during CPR.

Support beneath the right hip.

200

Do this if there are two responders.

Switch roles.

200

It is silent and invisible.

Normal breathing.

300

Having become unconscious or fallen down.

Collapsed

300

You should roll the victim in this direction when you put them in the recovery position.

Towards you.

300

Position your hands here on the body of your victim to deliver chest compressions.

Sternum

300

This is why there are special considerations for a heavily pregnant woman during CPR.

Circulation to the lower extremities.

300

This is why you change positions during CPR if there are two or more responders available.

To avoid fatigue.

300

It is not normal breathing if it sounds like this.

Agonal gasping.

400

An emergency technique that manually pumps the heart if it stops.

Compressions

400

Position yourself here to put the victim in the recovery position.

Kneeling beside them.

400

Depth of compressions for an adult victim.

2.0-2.5 inches 

400

This condition requires modifications in delivering rescue breaths.

Having a stoma
400

You may use one of these if you have three or more first responders in an emergency.

Bag valve mask resuscitator.

400

Do this frequently while a child is in the recovery position.

Monitor vital signs.

500

Long flat bone in the center of the chest that connects the ribs.

Sternum

500
They must be doing this to place them in recovery position.

Breathing normally.

500

Frequency with which to monitor vital signs.

Two minutes or five cycles of CPR

500

You will have to modify the way you deliver rescue breaths if the victim is experiencing these as a result of their injuries.

Facial deformities.

500

One of these needs to be on the way while you are performing CPR.

An AED

500

You must have them on the way if you are performing CPR.

EMS

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