Chapter 2
You ask the parent/guardian for consent.
What is the first thing you do with an injured child?
When the heart stops beating or beats too ineffectively to circulate blood to the brain and other vital organs.
What is cardiac arrest?
Ask for consent, when given permission start by doing 5 back blows and 5 abdominal thrusts.
What do you do when someone is choking?
An illness that strikes suddenly and usually only lasts for a short period of time such as the flu.
Whats an acute illness?
A sudden decrease in blood flow to the brain
What can fainting be caused by?
SAMPLE
What technique could you use to get more information out of the person?
Recognizing cardiac arrest and activating the EMS system, immediately beginning CPR and using an AED as soon as possible. This gives the person the best chance for surviving the incident.
What is the Cardiac Chain of Survival?
Place your forearm along the infant’s back, cradling the back of the infant’s head with your hand, your other hand should be supporting the infant’s jaw with your thumb and fingers. Turn the infant over so that he or she is face-down along your forearm. Lower your arm onto your thigh so that the infant’s head is lower than his or her chest.
Where do you place a baby when its choking?
an illness that a person lives with on an ongoing basis and that often requires continuous treatment to manage, such as diabetes.
Whats a chronic illness?
slightly past-neutral position
Put the person in a recovery position if the person has no obvious signs of injury. The recovery position helps to lower the person’s risk for choking and aspiration.
What do you do when a person is responsive but not fully awake? And why?
CPR is a skill that is used when a person is in cardiac arrest to keep oxygenated blood moving to the brain and other vital organs.
What is CPR?
Place one arm diagonally across the person’s chest and bend the person forward at the waist so that the person’s upper body is as close to parallel to the ground as possible. Firmly strike the person between the shoulder blades with the heel of your other hand.
How do you do a back blow?
Difficulty breathing, is evidenced by signs and symptoms such as shortness of breath, gasping for breath, hyperventilation or breathing that is uncomfortable or painful.
What is respiratory distress?
A network of professionals who provide the best care for anyone in an emergency.
What is EMS?
Send someone to call 9-1-1 or the emergency number and to get an AED and first aid kit. Then use SAMPLE to question bystanders. Lastly put the non-injured person in their recovery position.
If the person responds and is breathing normally but is not fully awake what should you do?
30 chest compression's followed by sets of 2 rescue breaths.
What does CPR consist of?
Lower the person to the ground and begin CPR, starting with chest compression's. After each set of chest compression's and before attempting rescue breaths, open the person’s mouth and look for the object.
What happens when the person becomes unresponsive?
a chronic illness in a which certain substances or conditions, cause inflammation and narrowing of the airways, making breathing difficult. Triggers could be exercise, temperature extremes, allergies, air pollution, strong odors respiratory infections, and stress or anxiety.
What is asthma and what triggers it?
Instead of giving abdominal thrusts, give chest thrusts.
At least 5 seconds but no longer then 10.
How long should you check fro responsiveness and breathing?
Adults: at least 2 inches
Child: Around 2 inches
Babies: about 1 and 1/2 inches
Where do you compress of Adults, babies, and kids?
What are some choking hazards?
a severe, life-threatening allergic reaction
What is anaphylaxis?
S- signs and symptoms
A- allergies
M- medications
P- pertinent medical history
L- last food or drink
E- events leading up to the incident
What does SAMPLE stand for?