Understanding your role in the EMS system
Four signs of an emergency
What are Unusual Sounds, Unusual Odors, Unusual sights, and Unusual Behaviors?
Method to interviewing a responsive person
What is SAMPLE?
How many seconds you should check for breathing
What is 5 to 10 seconds?
Five actions that increase a person's chance of survival from cardiac arrest
What is the Cardiac Chain of Survival?
A set consists of how many compressions
What is 30 chest compressions?
EMS stands for
What is Emergency Medical Services
S stands for
Check an infant for responsiveness by
What is tickling their foot?
What is call 9-1-1, Begin CPR, Use an AED as soon as possible?
A set consists of how many rescue breaths
What is 2 rescue breaths?
Laws that protect responders who act the way a reasonable and prudent person would act
What are Good Samaritan Laws
Check the person from
What is head to toe
Rolling a person onto their side is called the
What is the recovery position?
Types of breaths that are signs of cardiac arrest
What are agonal breaths?
What position should the head be in when giving breaths
What is the past neutral position?
The law assumes that the person would give consent if they were able to do so
What is implied consent?
A stands for
What is allergies?
What position must an unresponsive person be in when giving them CPR
What is on their back?
People who have a history of cardiovascular disease have a higher risk of what?
What is sudden cardiac arrest?
How many inches deep the chest compressions should be for an adult
What is 2 inches?
You must do this before giving first aid care
What is obtaining consent?
M stands for
What is medications?
How to check for responsiveness and breathing
What is prevention?
Noticing an obvious sign of life, EMS arrive, the scene becomes unsafe, you are too tired to continue.
What are reasons you should stop giving CPR?