Chapter 1
A bag full of safety gear and supplies for a first aid related emergency.
What is a first aid kit?
Approaching a person from the front to prevent confusion.
What is an example of assisting older people?
When blood flow to the heart is blocked.
What is a heart attack?
Peanut butter, nuts,chunks of meat and chunks of fruit.
What are chocking hazards for children younger than 4?
What are signs of sudden sickness?
Someone acting confused, unusually drowsier than normal or a mood change.
What is unusual behavior?
Use the S.A.M.P.L.E acronym.
How to gather more information from a person?
More general and milder symptoms for a heart attack.
What is a women's signs of a heart attack?
A panicked,confused look along with a possible violent cough.
What are signs of chocking?
Keeping the person a constant temperature,doing no further harm and reassuring the person that EMS is coming.
What is first aid for sudden sickness?
Ems responding to certain situations such as downed metrical wires, drowning or a fire.
What is an emergency situation.
Checking someone from head to toe.
When the heart stops beating or beats ineffectively.
What is cardiac arrest?
Giving back blows and abdominal thrusts.
What are ways to provide care for an adult chocking?
Convulsions, uncontrollable movements, and losing consciousness.
What are signs of a seizure?
Asking a person before you preform care on them.
What is consent?
Bend both of the persons knees to stabilize the body.
What is putting an adult in a recovery position.
Severe,unrecoverable damage can be caused to the brain.
Bending another adult over before providing care.
What is adjusting to your situation?
Weakness,drooling, confusion and trouble with speech.
What are signs of a stroke?
Equipment that helps prevent yourself from getting illnesses while giving care.
What is PPE?
Interview bystanders on the situation.
What is assessing a not fully awake person.
Giving 30 chest compressions followed by 2 breaths.
What is a CPR cycle?
Grabbing the forehead and chin during CPR.
What is opening the airway?
Ask the person to sit up and lean slightly forward to make breathing easier.
What is the first step of assisting with an Asthma inhaler?