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A network of professionals linked together to provide the best care for people in all types of emergencies.
What is Emergency Medical Services (EMS)?
Classified as children 5-12 years old
What is school age children?
A skill that is used when a person is in cardiac arrest to keep oxygenated blood moving through the body
What is CPR?
Children younger than __ years old are at a higher risk of choking
What is 5 years old?
What is breathing that is faster and shallower than normal
What is hyperventilation.
Protects responders who act in the way a reasonable and prudent person would act if that person were in the same situation.
What is Good Samaritan Laws?
The first thing you do if you are caring for a child and their parents/guardian is present
What is to ask for consent?
Occurs when blood flow to part of the heart muscle is blocked
What is a heart attack.
How many back blows and abdominal thrusts you should give to a choking adult
What is 5 back blows and 5 abdominal thrusts
An illness that a person lives with on an ongoing basis and that often requires continuous treatment to manage.
What is chronic illness
The 4 signs of an emergency
What are unusual sounds, unusual odors, unusual sights, and unusual behaviors?
How to try to get the attention of someone you believe is unresponsive
What is to shout at the person, using their name if you know it?
What you should offer someone showing early symptoms of a heart attack.
What is aspirin?
What kind of facial expression does a choking person usually have
What is a panicked, confused or surprised facial expression.
The chronic illness in which certain substances or conditions cause inflammation and narrowing of the airways
What is asthma.
The three steps you take in an emergency situation
What is to check, call, and care?
How long you should check for breathing and responsiveness for
What is no more than 5-10 seconds?
Occurs 8-10 minutes after a person's heart stops properly breathing
What is irreversible brain damage?
What you should do if the choking person is too large to wrap your arms around to give abdominal thrusts
What is to give chest thrusts instead of abdominal thrusts?
The two forms of medication people diagnosed with asthma can take
What are long-term control medications and quick relief medications
Harmful microorganisms that spread when blood from an infected person enters the bloodstream of a person who is not infected.
What are bloodborne pathogens?
What you should do if a young or frightened child does not appear to have a life-threatening illness or injury, instead of checking from head-to-toe
What is to check from toe-to-head?
For each minute that CPR and use of an AED are delayed, the person’s chance for survival is reduced by this much
What is 10 percent?
When giving back blows, you should put your hands here.
What is just above the navel.
A person who is having a severe, life-threatening allergic reaction is experiencing what
What anaphylaxis?