Scene Assessment
The most important person on scene.
Who is the first aider?
Look for this when you open the airway.
What are obstructions?
Where your patient needs to be.
What is a hard, flat surface?
This is when your patient can still talk.
What is a mild blockage?
We use an A.E.D. when our patient is this.
What is unconscious and not breathing?
Look for these before you approach the patient.
What are hazards?
Why we do a head tilt-chin lift.
What is open the airway?
You put your hands here to do compressions.
What is the center of the chest?
This is when your patient can no longer speak.
What is a severe blockage?
The brand of A.E.D. the City of Ottawa used in their Public Access Defibrillator Program.
What is Zoll?
Put these on to keep you safe.
What is Personal Protective Equipment?
What is breathing?
What is 30:2?
What we start with for a choking patient.
What are back blows?
The patient's chest needs to be this before applying the A.E.D. pads.
What is shaved and dry?
You need to get from your patient before you start treatment.
What is consent?
This can cover the patient's airway.
The depth of your compressions.
What is 1/3 or 5-6cm?
What we do after back blows.
What are abdominal thrusts?
The number of minutes between analyzing.
What is 2?
You can ask a bystander to do this.
What is call 911?
This is how long we check for breathing.
What is 5 seconds?
This is how we open the airway.
What is head tilt-chin lift?
What are 5 back blows and 5 chest compressions?
The letter in A.E.D. mean this.
What is Automated External Defibrillator?