Emergency Response
This law protects people who voluntarily provide emergency care from certain legal liability.
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
This is the total number of bones in the adult human body.
What is 206?
This acronym describes whether a patient is Alert, responds to Voice, responds to Pain, or is Unresponsive.
What is AVPU
This is the adult CPR compression-to-breath ratio for one rescuer.
What is 30:2?
This is used to cover a wound and absorb blood.
What is a dressing?
This directional term means toward the front of the body.
What is anterior?
This is the first thing you should do when arriving at an emergency scene.
What is check the scene for safety?
These connect muscle to bone.
What are tendons?
In this acronym, the C stands for Circulation, A stands for Airway, and B stands for Breathing.
What is CAB?
This device analyzes heart rhythm and can deliver an electric shock to help restore a normal rhythm.
What is an AED?
This is used to hold a dressing in place and apply pressure.
What is a bandage?
This movement decreases the angle of a joint.
What is flexion?
This occurs when a healthcare provider stops care without ensuring someone equally qualified takes over.
What is abandonment?
These connect bone to bone.
What are ligaments?
This assessment acronym stands for Signs/Symptoms, Allergies, Medications, Past medical history, Last oral intake, and Events leading up to the incident.
What is SAMPLE?
This is the compression-to-breath ratio for two-rescuer child CPR.
What is 15:2?
This type of bleeding is usually bright red and may spurt with each heartbeat.
What is arterial bleeding?
This movement points the toes downward, like pressing a gas pedal.
What is plantar flexion?
Name the five things you should tell the 911 dispatcher.
What are your location, phone number, what happened, number of victims, and condition of victims?
The cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine contain this many vertebrae, respectively.
What are 7, 12, and 5?
This assessment checks a patient's pulse, motor function, and sensation.
What is PMS?
You should begin CPR when a person is unresponsive and has this finding
What is no pulse (and no normal breathing)?
This device is used to control life-threatening bleeding from an arm or leg when direct pressure is insufficient.
What is a tourniquet?
This body system is responsible for producing hormones.
What is the endocrine system?
A person is unresponsive, has no pulse, and is not breathing normally. You are the only rescuer. Describe the steps you should take to begin responding to this emergency.
Activate emergency response/get 911 and an AED.
Begin CPR immediately.
Perform 30 compressions followed by 2 breaths.
Use the AED as soon as it arrives and follow its prompts.
This body cavity contains the heart and lungs.
What is the thoracic cavity?
This position is used to help maintain an open airway in an unconscious person who is breathing normally and has no suspected spinal injury.
What is the recovery position?
When using an AED, everyone must do this before the shock is delivered.
What is stand clear of the patient?
This acronym stands for Deformities, Contusions, Abrasions, Punctures/Penetrations, Burns, Tenderness, Lacerations, and Swelling.
What is DCAP-BTLS?
This acronym represents the treatment method Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation (as commonly taught in the study guide's PRICE method).
What is PRICE?