Foundations
System that is a network of professionals linked together to provide the best care for people in emergencies.
What is EMS system.
What is first aid kit.
Occurs when blood flow to part of the heart muscle is blocked.
What is a heart attack.
What do you do when a person is choking?
What is 5 back blows and abdominal thrusts.
What are signs and symptoms of sudden illness?
What is trouble breathing, pain, dizziness, fever, nausea, etc.
Unusual sounds, odors, sights, and behaviors.
What is signs of an emergency.
Where you should tap on an adult to check consciousness.
What is shoulder?
Occurs when the heart stops beating or beats too ineffectively to circulate blood to the brain and other vital organs.
What is cardiac arrest.
What can occur when talking or laughing with the mouth full or eating too fast.
What is behaviors that can put a person at risk for choking?
What first aid care do you provide to someone with sudden illness?
What is provide care according to the signs and symptoms that you find and your level of training.
What protects responders who act the was a reasonable person would act if that person were in the same situation.
What is Good Samaritan Laws.
Where you should tap on an infant to check consciousness.
What is foot?
What medicine should you take for a heart attack?
What is Asprin.
panicked, confused or surprised facial expression.
What are signs and symptoms of choking?
Acute flare-ups of chronic, respiratory conditions such as asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
What are causes of respiratory distress.
What do you need to obtain before giving first aid care?
What is consent.
The amount of breaths and compressions you give during CPR
What is 2 breaths and 30 compressions.
What is it called when five actions that, when performed in rapid succession, increase the person’s likelihood of surviving cardiac arrest.
What is Cardiac Chain of Survival.
What do you do if your with the person who is choking?
What is first ask the person if he or she is choking.
A chronic illness in which certain substances or conditions, called triggers, cause inflammation and narrowing of the airways, making breathing difficult.
What is asthma.
What are the three simple steps to take to guide your actions in emergency?
What is Check-Call-Care.
How far you should tilt the adult's head when giving breaths
What is past neutral.
A skill that is used when a person is in cardiac arrest to keep oxygenated blood moving to the brain and other vital organs until advanced medical help arrives.
What is CPR
What are some special situations when it comes to choking cases?
What is if the person is too large, pregnant, in a wheelchair, or alone.
The abrupt loss of the heart's ability to contract and push blood forward through the circulatory system.
What is Sudden Cardiac Arrest.