Chapter 1
A network of professionals linked together to provide the best care for people in all types of emergencies.
What is The Emergency Medical System?
Permission to provide care given by an ill or injured person to a rescuer.
What is consent.
What occurs when blood flow to the heart muscle is blocked?
What is a heart attack?
If a person is too large for you to wrap your arms around, what should you do instead?
What are chest thrusts?
What rules protect responders who act rationally to help other?
What are the Good Samaritan laws?
What is the first thing you do when you an emergency?
What is calling 911?
The first responsibility at any scene
What is Identifying the issue and treating?
What should you stop when you are no longer physically able to?
What is CPR.
What is the number of back blows you give while treating a person?
What is 5?
Often associated with internal bleeding, the symptoms of this conditon often includes altered mental status and week, rapid pulses?
What is Shock
People who are trained to give the highest level of emergency care at the scene of an emergency
What are paramedics?
an emergency treatment that's done when someone's breathing or heartbeat has stopped
What is Cpr?
When providing rescue breaths, how often should you stop and reassess the patient?
What is every two minutes?
Solution to to help a person that is pregnant when choking?
What is chest thrusts.
What is the most common airway obstruction?
What is the tongue?
What rules protect responders who act rationally and help others?
What are Good Samaritan Laws?
The best way to check a person
What is checking from head to toe?
For single rescuer CPR on an infant, the correct compression-to-ventilation ratio is:
What is 30:2?
What are the steps to give a person abdominal thrusts?
what is stand behind the person, with one foot in front of the other for balance and stability. If possible,
place your front foot between the person’s feet.
Wrap your arms around the person’s waist.
The "three C's" used to remember what to do
in an emergency are
What is Check, Call, Care?
The law assumes the person would give consent if the person was able to
What is implied consent?
occurs when the heart suddenly stops beating, meaning blood stops flowing to the rest of the body
What is Cardiac Arrest?
What are symptoms of a heart attack?
The pain or discomfort is persistent, lasting longer than 3 to 5 minutes, or going away and then coming back.
What is the number of fingers used in chest compressions for an infant?
What is 2 fingers?
A muscle or bone injury is treated four ways?
What is Rest,ice,compression,Elevation?