CPR
The first step in the EMS system.
What is recognizing that an emergency exists?
When blood flow to a part of the heart muscle is blocked.
What is a heart attack?
What is past-neutral position?
Head position for rescue breaths on infants.
What is neutral position?
Head position for rescue breaths on adults.
What is slightly past-neutral?
Law that protects responders who act the way a "reasonable and prudent person" would act.
What is Good Samaritan Law?
When the heart stops beating or beats to ineffectively to circulate blood to the brain or other vital organs.
What is Cardiac arrest?
AED chest placement for adults?
What is upper right side and lower left side of patients chest?
AED placement for infants.
What is the middle of the chest and the middle of the back?
Compression depth for a child.
What is about 2 inches?
A skill used when someone is in cardiac arrest to keep their oxygenated blood moving to the brain and other vital organs.
What is CPR?
List the Cardiac Chain of survival.
Recognize an emergency, early CPR, early defibrillation, advanced life support, and post-cardiac arrest care.
Checking responsiveness for an adult.
What is shouting their name and tapping their shoulder.
Checking responsiveness for an infact.
What is shouting their name and tapping the bottom of their foot?
Most common cause of cardiac arrest in children.
What are breathing emergencies, congenital heart disorders, and trauma?
Adult compression depth.
What is at least 2 inches?
"Classic" signs of a heart attack.
What are shortness of breath, nausea, fatigue, dizziness, sweating, and back or jaw pain.
Caring for a choking adult.
What are 5 back blows and 5 abdominal thrusts?
Chocking hazards for children under 4.
What are nuts and seeds, chunks of food, raw veggies, popcorn, peanut butter, coins, buttons, and marbles ect.?
List the pediatric cardiac chain of survival.
Prevention, early CPR, early emergency care, pediatric advanced life support, post-cardiac arrest care.
Compression to rescue breath ratio.
What are 30 compressions to 2 rescue breaths?
Can correct an underlying problem for some people who go into cardiac arrest.
What is an AED?
Abdominal thrust hand placement.
What is thumb side fist two finder above person's navel?
Caring for choking infants.
What are 5 back blows and 5 chest compressions?
True or False: The procedure for using an AED on a child is the same as an adult.
What is true?