Chapter 1
What are the emergency medical services
Recognize, decide, activate, and give care
What you use to gather more information.
What is SAMPLE?
Leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before the patient has been transferred to someone with equal or greater medical training.
What is Abandonment.
If you see the object in someone's throat while they are choking what can you do to try and remove it?
Perform a finger sweep.
What is an illness that strikes suddenly and only lasts for a short period of time?
An acute illness
Body fluids are risky when you come in contact with them.
What are pathogens?
How long should it take you to check responsiveness and breathing?
what is no more than 5-10 seconds
A legal concept referring to the assumption that an unresponsive person would give permission to be helped if responsive.
What is implied consent.
List the four chambers of the heart.
What is right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle.
What is an illness that a person lives with on an ongoing basis?
A chronic illness
Four signs of an emergency.
What are unusual odors, sounds, sights, or behaviors.
The age groups for Infants, toddlers, children, and adolescence.
What are below 1, 1-3, 5-12, and 12-20?
A finding of failure to act properly in a situation in which there was a duty to act and that harm was caused to the patient as a result.
What is Negligence.
The passageway between the mouth and lungs that allows life-sustaining oxygen into the body?
What is the Airway.
What is hyperventilation?
Breathing that is faster and shallower than normal
The emergency action steps.
What are check, call, and care?
How to communicate when the person in need of help does not speak English.
What is using hand gestures to attempt to communicate?
What are some signs and symptoms of a heart attack?
The pain or discomfort is persistent and lasts longer than 3-5 minutes.
If a child cannot talk but is coughing than what do you tell them to keep doing?
Keep coughing.
What is asthma?
A chronic illness in which certain substances called triggers cause inflammation
All steps of the EMS system.
What are Recognize that an emergency exists, decide to take action, activate the EMS system, give care until EMS personnel take over?
What to do when communicating with a child in need of help.
What is when speaking to them get down to their level?
Heart attacks in men vs. women.
What are men experience classic symptoms, while women often experience more mild symptoms?
What are back blows?
Blows between the shoulder blades from behind the person choking
What is anaphylactic?
A severe, life-threatening allergic reaction