Foundations
A network of professionals linked together to provide the best care for people in all types of emergencies.
What is the emergency medical services system?
A heart condition that a person is born with that puts them at risk for cardiac arrest.
What is a congenital heart condition?
Foods or household objects/toys that can put someone at risk of choking if swallowed.
What is a choking hazard?
An illness that a person lives with on an ongoing basis and that often required continuous treatment to manage.
What is a chronic illness?
Bleeding that occurs inside the body, into a body cavity or space.
What is internal bleeding?
The four signs to look for in a suspected emergency.
What is an unusual sound, odor, sight, or behavior?
A medication to be careful to give to someone showing signs/symptoms of a heart attack due to the possibility that the person is allergic or is currently taking a blood thinner.
What is aspirin?
Blows between the shoulder blades.
What is back blows?
What is an acute illness?
A cut, commonly caused by a sharp object such as broken glass or a knife.
What is a laceration?
A law that protects volunteer responders in an emergency as long as they use common sense and a reasonable level of skill to give care.
What are Good Samaritan Laws?
Chest pain, discomfort in one or both arms, dizziness or lightheadedness, troubled breathing, nausea, pale skin, sweating, anxiety/ a feeling of impending doom, extreme fatigue, or unresponsiveness.
What are the signs and symptoms of a heart attack?
Inward and upward thrusts just above the navel.
What are abdominal thrusts?
Abnormally fast and shallow breathing.
What is hyperventilation?
A progressive, life threatening condition in which the circulatory system fails to deliver enough oxygen-rich blood to the body's tissues and organs.
What is shock?
Harmful microorganisms that can cause disease and can be spread from person to person through direct or indirect contact.
What is a pathogen?
A skill that is used when a person is in cardiac arrest to keep oxygenated blood moving to the brain and other vital organs until advanced medical help arrives.
What is CPR, or cardiopulmonary resuscitation?
A panicked/confused facial expression, placing their hands on or towards their throat, weak coughs, high-pitched squeaking noise, flushed skin that becomes pale or bluish.
What are the signs and symptoms of choking?
A severe, life threatening allergic reaction.
What is anaphylaxis?
An injury caused by freezing of the skin and underlying tissues as a result of prolonged exposure to freezing or subfreezing temperatures that can cause the loss of fingers, hands, arms, toes, feet, and legs.
What is frostbite?
Equipment used to prevent pathogens from contaminating your skin, mucous membranes, or clothing.
What is personal protective equipment?
A surgically created opening in the front of the neck that opens into the trachea to form an alternate route for breathing when the upper airway is blocked or damaged.
What is a tracheostomy (or stoma)?
What to give someone who is choking if they are pregnant or too large to wrap arms around.
What are chest thrusts?
A drug that slows or stops the effects of anaphylaxis.
What is Epinephrine?
What is thermoregulation?