Chapter 1
What does EMS stand for?
What is Emergency medical services
When a person if smaller than you, you should_____.
What is kneel down to their level.
What is a heart attack
When Blood flow to the part of the heart muscle is blocked.
The dominant pacemaker of the heart is...
What is SA Node.
The loss of measurable signs of life as the result of a blocked airway or loss of breathing?
What is Secondary Cardiac Arrest.
What are the four signs of an emergency?
What are Unusual sounds, Unusual odor, Unusual Sights, Unusual behaviors.
What does the SAM acronym
What is:
S- Signs and Symptoms
A- Allergies
M- Medications
List the four chambers of the heart.
What is right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle.
The recommended technique to open and maintain the airway of an unresponsive person. It pulls the jaw forward and lifts the tongue away from the back of the throat?
What is Head Tilt-Chin Lift
What is the main idea of the good Samaritan law?
What is Good Samaritan Laws protect protect responders who act in a way that a "Reasonable and Prudent person would act if that same person were in the same situation.
When a person is having a medical emergency you should check and touch them ______.
What is Head to toe
True or False: Men can only have heart attacks
False, men and women can both have heart attacks.
The passageway between the mouth and lungs that allows life-sustaining oxygen into the body?
What is the Airway.
Infectious microorganisms in human blood that can cause disease in humans. These pathogens include hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)?
What is Bloodborne Pathogens.
What are pathogens?
What are harmful microorganisms that can cause disease.
What is the age of a adolescent child when identifying an emergency.
What is from 12-20 years.
A law enacted to legally protect trained providers who voluntarily stop to help, act prudently, do not provide care beyond training, and are not completely careless in delivering emergency care.
What is Good Samaritan law.
Heartbeat pulsations of the femoral arteries that can be felt just below the middle of the crease where the leg and torso meet.
What is femoral pulse.
A basic CPR skill that creates increased pressure in the chest cavity and direct compression of the heart. This forces blood to move from the chest to the lungs, brain, and rest of the body?
What is Chest Compressions.
What are the 3 C's of First Aid
What is
Check
Call
Care
What do you not do if you encounter a person who does not speak the same language, but is have a medical emergency.
What is do not shout at them.
A federal law protecting the privacy of the patients specific health care information and providing the patient with control over how this information is used and distributed
What is HIPAA.
A life-threatening BLS emergency in which breathing is absent or not normal and the heart is still beating?
What is Respiratory Arrest.
The abrupt loss of the heart's ability to contract and push blood forward through the circulatory system. Typically caused by a sudden disruption of the heart's electrical system?
What is Sudden Cardiac Arrest.