Before Giving Care
Permission from the injured or ill person (or the person's parent if the person is a minor) to care for them.
What is consent?
Toe to head checking strategy (avoids scaring the person/making them more anxious)
How do you check a small child for an injury?
occurs when blood flow to part of the heart muscle is blocked.
What is a heart attack
What is CPR
Foods and household objects and toys
What are come choking hazards for children under the age of 4?
Were developed to encourage people to help others in emergency situations; Law that protects the responder from financial liability
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
Check from head to toe.
How should you check an adult that appears to be injured?
When the heart stops beating or beats too ineffectively to circulate blood to the brain and other vital organs.
What is cardiac arrest?
30 chest compression and 2 rescue breaths
Place one arm diagonally across the person's chest, bend the person forwards, and firmly strike the person between the shoulder blades with the heel of your hand.
How do you give back blows?
check, call, care
What are the emergency action steps?
Put them into recovery positions which helps lower the person's risk for choking and aspiration.
What do you do when a person is responsive but not fully awake?
8-10 minutes
How far do you have to tilt an adult's head when giving them rescue breaths?
stand behind the person (one foot in front of the other); wrap arm around the person's waist, find the person's navel, make a fist with your other hand, cover your fist with your other hand and give a quick, inward thrust into the person's abdomen.
How to give an abdominal thrust?
unusual sounds; unusual odors; unusual sights; unusual behaviors
What are the four signs of an emergency?
Shout to get the person's attention; tap the shoulder/bottom of the foot; shout name again while checking for normal breathing.
What are the steps you take to check a person who is unresponsive?
Isolated or infrequent gasping in the absence of normal breathing; Occurs after the heart has stopped beating
What are agonal breaths?
upper right, lower left
Where do you place the AED on an adult?
5 sets of back blows and 5 sets of abdominal thrusts.
How many sets of back blows do you give before abdominal thrusts?; How many sets of abdominal thrusts do you have to do before going back to back blows?
Recognize that an emergency exists; Decide to take action; Activating the EMS system; Giving care until EMS personnel take over
What are the four basic steps your role in the EMS includes?
S=Signs and symptoms; A=Allergies; M=Medications
What does SAM stand for?
Recognize emergency and call 911; Early CPR; Early Defibrillation; Advanced life support; integrated Post-cardiac Arrest Care
What are the steps in the Adult Cardiac Chain of Survival?
You place one on the back (between the shoulder blades) and one on the stomach (in the middle of the chest)
Where do you position the AED on the baby?
call 911, give yourself abdominal thrusts using your hands; bend over and press your abdomen against any firm object (such as the back of a chair)
What you do when you are alone and choking.