Medical/Legal
What is a Good Samaritan Law?
A law to protect providers who stop to help, act prudently, do not provide care beyond training,and are not completely careless in delivering emergency care.
What does CPR stand for?
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Whats a heart attack?
A heart attack occurs when blood flow to part of the heart muscle is blocked.
What is an AED?
a medical device designed to analyze the heart rhythm and deliver an electric shock to victims of ventricular fibrillation to restore the heart rhythm to normal.
Which of the following statements about cardiac arrest is true?
Cardiac arrest occurs when blood flow to part of the heart muscle is blocked.
What is the first link in the Pediatric Cardiac Chain of Survival?
Prevention
You should continue CPR until?
Another trained responder or EMS personnel take over.
List the four chambers of the heart.
What is right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle.
Using a AED?
If your place of employment has an AED on site, know where it is located, how to operate it and how to maintain it.
How should you position an infant to give back blows?
Face-down, with the infant’s head lower than his or her chest
Aspirin for a Heart Attack?
Before offering aspirin, make sure the person is responsive, able to chew and swallow, and allowed to have aspirin. Make sure to ask them questions.
A child is choking on a piece of hard candy. She is responsive and coughing forcefully. What should you do?
Stay with her and encourage her to continue coughing.
Whats a tracheostomy?
A surgically created opening in the front of the neck that opens into the trachea (windpipe) to form an alternate route for breathing when the upper airway is blocked or damaged.
Where do you place the AED?
Place one AED pad on the upper right side of the chest and the other on the lower left side of the chest, below the armpit.
Is it safe to use an AED on someone whos pregnant?
It is safe to use an AED on a woman who is pregnant.
What is Atropine?
It can treat heart rhythm problems, stomach or bowel problems, and certain types of poisoning when injected.
When giving a infant CPR?
Tilt head to neutral position;form seal over mouth and nose.
A life-threatening BLS emergency in which breathing is absent or not normal and the heart is still beating?
What is Respiratory Arrest.
What is a Oxygen cylinder?
A metal container that stores compressed oxygen under pressure, typically used in medical settings to deliver oxygen to patients through a mask.
Signs and Symptoms of a Heart Attack?
Chest pain, which can range from mild to unbearable. The person may complain of pressure, squeezing, tightness, aching or heaviness in the chest. The pain or discomfort is persistent, lasting longer than 3 to 5 minutes, or going away and then coming back.
Pain medication that can depress and even stop breathing when taken in overdose.
What is Opioid?
If the first rescue breath does not cause the chest to rise?
Retilt the head and ensure a proper seal before giving the second rescue breath.
What is the Airway?
The passageway between the mouth and lungs that allows life-sustaining oxygen into the body?
What is Naloxone?
A medication that can temporarily reverse life threatening effects of opioids.
How many minutes can brain damage begin?
4-6 minutes.