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?
Tow to head checking strategy (avoids scaring the person/making them more anxious)
How do you check an injured child?
occurs when blood flow to the heart muscle is blocked
What is a heart attack?
A skill that is used when a person is in cardiac arrest to keep oxygenated blood moving to the brain and other vital organs.
What is CPR?
Foods and household objects and toys
What are choking hazards for children under 4 years old?
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
Check from head to toe
How do you check on injured adult?
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
How many chest compressions and breaths should there be in each set?
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 not responsive but fully awake?
4-6 minutes
8-10 minutes
How many minutes can pass before brain damage begin and become permanent?
Tilt head to past-neutral positions
How far back do you tilt the head for an adult when giving breaths for CPR?
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 do you give abdominal thrusts?
unusual sounds; unusual odors; unusual sights; unusual behaviors
What are the signs of emergency?
Shout to get the person's attention; tap the shoulder/bottom of the foot; shout name again while checking for normal breathing
How do you check is a person is responsive or not?
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 is the AED placed on an adult/older child?
5 sets of back blows and 5 sets of abdominal thrusts
How any sets of back blows and abdominal thrusts do you give before doing the other?
Recognize that an emergency exists; Decide to take action; Activating the EMS system; Giving care until EMS personnel take over.
S=Signs and symptoms; A=Allergies; M=Medications
What does the SAM in SAMPLE 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 is the AED placed on a baby?
Call 911, give yourself abdominal thrust using your hands, bend over and press your abdomen against any firm onbect (such as the back of a chair)
What do you do when you are choking?