Chapter 1
What is shout?
The first responsibility at any scene
What is personal safety?
Leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before the patient has been transferred to someone with equal or greater medical training.
What is Abandonment.
An object or item of food that may obstruct the breathing passage.
What is a choking hazard?
An ongoing affliction that affects a person for most of their life.
What is chronic illness?
The period of time to check for responsiveness and breathing.
What is 5-10 seconds?
The first three questions to ask in an interview with a victim.
What is SAM?
Assuming that an unresponsive person would give permission to be helped if responsive.
What is implied consent.
The sets of immediate care to unblock the airway.
What are 5 back blows and 5 abdominal thrusts?
An immediate and sudden sickness that usually lasts for a short period of time.
What is acute illness?
The first steps to take when entering an emergency situation.
What is check, call, care?
What is cardiac arrest?
A condition in which blood flow to the heart is blocked.
What is a heart attack?
The passageway between the mouth and lungs that allows air into the body.
What is the airway?
A tag that a person may wear to identify their allergies, medications, or chronic illnesses.
What is a medical identification tag?
What is a breathing barrier?
The order in which a young child or infant is checked for injury.
A law enacted to legally protect trained providers who voluntarily stop to help, act prudently, do not provide care beyond training, and are not completely careless in delivering emergency care.
What is Good Samaritan law?
Alternative to abdominal thrusts that are given when a person is pregnant or it is impossible to wrap your arms around their stomach.
What is chest thrusts?
What is respiratory distress?
Equipment used to protect your skin, mucous membranes, and clothing from contamination and infection.
What is personal protective equipment?
How to position a person who is responsive but not fully awake.
What is a recovery position?
A condition that occurs when the heart stops beating or beats ineffectively.
What is cardiac arrest?
A procedure to dislodge a visible object from a choking and unresponsive person's throat.
What is finger sweep?
A severe, life-threatening allergic reaction.
What is anaphylaxis?