Emergency Care
Proper rate for chest compressions.
100 to 120 per minute?
Emergency care given to an ill or injured person before help arrives.
What is first aid?
Position to place a patient having a seizure after protecting head.
What is on the patient's side?
Proper way to relieve a foreign object in a pregnant woman, infant, or obese person.
What are chest thrusts?
This delivers a shock to the heart. The shock stops the VF.
What is a defibrillator?
The excessive loss of blood in a short amount of time.
What is hemorrhage?
A life-threatening sensitivity to an antigen that may include laryngeal edema and dyspnea.
What is anaphylactic shock?
When breathing stops but hear action continues for several minutes.
What is respiratory arrest?
Applying pressure to the ____ of person who is hemorrhaging if direct pressure does not stop it.
What is the artery above the bleeding site?
When the heart stops suddenly and without warning.
What is cardiac arrest?