Foundations
A network of professionals linked together to provide the best care for people in all types of emergencies.
What is the EMS system?
What is a parent or guardian?
When the heart stops beating or beats to ineffectively to circulate blood to the brain and other vital organs.
What is cardiac arrest?
Lower the person to the ground and begin CPR if the person becomes ___.
What is unresponsive?
An illness that strikes suddenly and lasts a short period of time.
What is acute illness?
Unusual sounds, odors, sights and behaviors.
What are signs of an emergency?
The mnemonic used to help you remember what to ask when interviewing a person before EMS personnel arrive to the scene.
What is SAMPLE.
When blood flow to part of the heart muscle is blocked.
What is a heart attack?
The first step of giving care for choking, where you firmly strike the person between the shoulder blades with the heel of your hand.
What are back blows?
An illness that a person lives with on an ongoing basis.
What is chronic illness?
Laws that protect responders who act the way a "reasonable and prudent" person would act in the same situation.
What are Good Samaritan Laws?
Positions a person is put into when responsive but not fully awake, in order to prevent further risk of choking or aspiration.
What are recovery positions?
When brain damage can become irreversible in cardiac arrest.
What are 8-10 minutes?
The second step of giving care for choking, where you give quick inward and upward thrusts into the person's abdomen.
What are abdominal thrusts?
Certain substances or conditions that cause a reaction.
What are triggers?
When the law assumes that an unresponsive person would give consent if he or she were able to do so.
What is implied consent?
The maximum amount of time spent checking for responsiveness.
What are 5-10 seconds?
The number of chest compressions given in one set of CPR.
What is 30?
Grapes, marbles, nuts, beads, etc.
What are choking hazards?
A severe, life-threatening allergic reaction.
What is anaphylaxis?
Equipment used to prevent pathogens from contaminating your skin, mucus membranes, or clothing.
What is personal protective equipment?
The systematic manner used when assessing a person for injury.
What is checking from head to toe?
The depth of chest compressions on an infant when giving CPR.
What is 1.5 inches?
What are chest thrusts?
A chronic illness where triggers can cause inflammation and narrowing of the airways, making it difficult to breath.
What is asthma?