Chapter 5- Sudden illness
What is a seizure
The result of abnormal electric activity in the brain leading to temporary and involuntary changes in body movement, awareness and behaviors
What do you do when a child or adult is choking?
5 back blows are given followed by 5 abdominal thrusts.
What are agonal breaths?
What should you do to check for breathing and responses.
Shout or if you know the persons name say that. Tap their shoulder or if they are an infant tap the bottom of their foot. To check for breathing make sure it is 5 to 10 seconds apart
Implied consent
What is assumed when the injured person in unresponsive and cannot give consent?
An acute illness
An illness that strikes all the sudden but doesnt last very long
How to position an infant when responding to choking?
Put your arm against their back and make sure to cradle their head with your hand, put your other arm along their front. Support their jaw with you fingers and turn them facing the other way, also make sure that their head is lower than their chest.
What is the pediatric cardiac chain of survival?
Prevention, Early CPR, activation of the emergency medical services system, early advanced life support, integrated post cardiac arrest care.
When the person who is hurt is a child who do you ask consent to help them from?
Their guardian or parent that is present.
When should you activate the EMS system?
During emergency situations or emergency conditions.
A chronic illness
Something that someone lives with on an ongoing basis and that makes them get treatment often to manage.
What to do if a person in a wheelchair starts to choke?
Give them abdominal thrusts the same way as any adult but kneel down, and if the wheelchair is in the way then give them chest thrusts.
What is CPR?
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation which is a skill used when a person is in cardiac arrest to keep the oxygenated blood moving until professional medical help arrives.
How do you start CPR?
With chest compressions
Good Samaritan Laws.
These laws protect the responder from financial liability and assume that the responder will do the best they can to save the person and prevent no further harm.
What is epinephrine?
A drug that slows or stops the effects of anaphylaxis
Most common choking hazards?
Foods and household objects and toys
What is a heart attack
When blood flow to a part of the heart muscle is blocked
What does Sample stand for?
Signs/ Symptoms, Allergies, Medications, Pertinent medical history, Last drink or food, Event leading to accident.
Five questions you should ask yourself while entering a scene.
Is it safe to enter? What has happened? How many people are hurt or involved? Can anyone else help? What is my initial impression on the injury?
What is diabetes
A chronic condition characterized by the body's inability to process glucose (sugar) in the bloodstream.
What should you do when someone who is pregnant is choking?
Give chest thrusts instead of abdominal thrusts.
How does aspirin help someone who is having a heart attack?
The pill makes sure to prevent blood clots and is good when symptoms of a heart attack is first noticed.
How should you go up to someone with impaired hearing?
You should walk up to them from the front and make sure they can see your mouth and face.
Four signs of an emergency.
Unusual sights, sounds, odors, and behaviors.