Chapter 1
The 3 first steps that a responder should take in an emergency that ensure the safety of the responder and the injured person.
What is CHECK ->CALL ->CARE?
The first thing that should be done at the area of the injury to ensure the safety of the responder.
What is check the scene?
The condition in which one's heart stops beating all together.
What is Cardiac Arrest?
The universal hand signal for choking.
What is grabbing at the throat with 2 hands?
Inflammation of the airways that is caused by triggers making it hard to breathe.
Legislature that protects responders of emergencies that act in a "reasonable and prudent" manner.
What are Good Samaritan Laws?
The way that an injured person should be examined to examine the person most efficiently. It should be reversed for a child.
What is checking from Head to Toe(adult) and Toe to Head(child)?
The term for the most efficient way to save a person who is suffering from a heart attack or cardiac arrest.
What is the Cardiac Chain of Survival?
The ratio of back blows to abdominal thrusts in a choking emergency.
What is 5 back blows to 5 abdominal thrusts?
The four signs of an emergency in the first aid system
What are unusual odors, sounds, sights, behaviors?
The method used to interview a responsive person that is taught in first aid.
What is the SAMPLE approach?
The correct compression to breath ratio when you are giving someone CPR.
What is 30 compressions to 2 breaths?
What you should do if a responsive adult suddenly becomes unresponsive while performing choking procedures.
What is place them on the floor and begin CPR?
A life threatening allergic reaction.
What is anaphylaxis?
The unsaid permission given by an unresponsive person that allows a responder to give care.
What is implied consent?
The posture of an injured person that the responder should put the injured person into to assure that the injured does not choke, and is able to freely breathe?
What is the recovery position?
The long name for CPR.
What is Cardiopulmonary resuscitation?
The term for taking out an object from a choking person's mouth.
What is a finger sweep?
Abnormal electrical activity in the brain often caused by epilepsy and sometimes characterized by convulsions.
What is a seizure?
Tools that protect the responder as they are giving care to the injured.
What are PPE(personal protective equipment)?
The amount of time that should be taken to check an unresponsive person for breathing as to maximize the chances of the person's survival.
What is 5 to 10 seconds?
The long name for AED.
What is automated external defibrillator?
Where the first hand should be placed when giving abdominal thrusts.
What is the navel(belly button)?
When blood flow to the brain is interrupted by a blood clot.
What is a stroke?