Before Giving Care
It is applied when it is assumed that a person would give consent if he or she were able to do so. Also applied when a minor needs emergency medical assistance when their parent or guardian is not around.
What is implied consent?
The acronym for interviewing a person who appears injured or ill.
What is SAM?
When blood flow to part of the heart muscle is blocked.
What is a heart attack?
The combination of care given to a chocking child or adult.
What are 5 back blows and 5 abominable thrusts?
An illness that strikes suddenly and usually only lasts for a short period of time.
What is an acute illness?
The three emergency action steps.
What is check, call, care?
The way to check a child who does not appear to have life-threatening illness or injury.
What is checking toe to head?
When the heart stops beating or beats too ineffectively to circulate blood to the brain and other vital organs.
What is cardiac arrest?
The solution for caring for a pregnant or overweight person who is choking.
What are chest thrusts?
An illness that a person lives with on an ongoing basis and that often requires continuous treatment to manage.
What is a chronic illness?
A network of professionals linked together to provide the best care for people in all types of emergencies.
What is the EMS system?
The recovery position for an adult or child.
What is rolling the person on their side?
How much time it takes for brain damage, during a cardiac arrest, to become irreversible.
The combination of care given to a choking infant. (3)
What are 5 back blows, 5 chest thrusts, and finger sweeps?
A chronic illness in which triggers cause inflammation and narrowing of the airways, making breathing difficult.
What is asthma?
What are unusual sounds, sights, odors, and behaviors?
The recovery position for an infant.
What is positioning the infant face down along your forearm?
The medicine you can give to a person experiencing a heart attack.
What is Aspirin?
The advice that should be given to a conscious, coughing, choking person to help them spit up the food or item they are choking on.
What is "keep coughing"?
How to use epinephrine for a person having an allergic reaction.
What is taking the safety cap off, stabbing it into the side of the thigh, holding it for 5-10 seconds, and calling 911?
Laws that protect responders who act the way a reasonable and prudent person would act if that person were in the same situation.
What are the Good Samaritan Laws?
Key factors of checking an injured or ill person.
What is reassuring the person, helping them rest in a comfortable position, giving care based on their condition, and being alert to signs that the person's condition is worsening?
What are 30 compressions at about 1 1/2 inches?
The care given to a choking person who becomes unresponsive.
What are CPR, finger sweeps (if you see the object), and rescue breaths?
What is a seizure?