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Before giving care you must do what?
Obtain consent to care.
How do you check if someone is responsive?
How many back blows and abdominal thrusts?
5 each.
When giving rescue breaths, how is the airway opened?
Gently tilt head back with hands.
Do men and women experience the same symptoms when having a heart attack?
False
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How does a heart attack occur?
When the blood flow to part of the heart muscle is blocked.
When giving back blows what do you have the person do?
When giving CPR, you pinch what?
The nose.
Cardiac arrest is the same as a heart attack.
False.
Where is an AED placed on a adult?
Upper right side of chest and below the armpit on the left.
If you are not CPR certified should you start compressions?
No, call 911 and wait for the ambulance to arrive.
If your alone choking what should you do?
Give abdominal thrusts using your hands or a chair well using gravity.
When giving mouth-to-mouth you must create what with the mouth?
A seal.
Cardiac arrest is when the heart stops beating.
True
If they say no to giving care what do you do?
Call 911.
Can cardiac arrest be caused by congenital heart disease, drowning, and electrocution?
Yes.
Gravity.
If someone is with you when begining CPR you tell them to do what?
Call 911, get an AED, and get a first aid kit.
The order is check, call, care.
True
When giving CPR to a child, how deep should compressions be?
About 1 1/2 inches.
In the middle of the abdomen, just above the navel.
What do you do if someone become unresponsive who was choking?
Lower them to the ground and begin CPR.
How many compressions, and rescue breaths are given?
30 Compressions, 2 Rescue breaths.
If the person is responsive you give them CPR.
False.