Before Giving Care
Unusual sounds, odors, sights, and behavior.
What are signs of an emergency?
The interviewing method to check someone
What is SAM: signs, allergies, medication?
When the heart beats irregularly or stop beating.
What is cardiac arrest?
Choking hazards.
What are food and toys?
Tool that shocks the heart back to beating normally?
What is an AED?
These protect responders who act as a reasonable person would in an emergency.
What are Good Samaritan Laws?
The parts of SAMPLE that are not used in modern care.
What are PLE.
The cause of a heart attack.
What is when blood flow to a part of the heart is cut off?
5 and 5 to aid someone choking.
Emergency action steps
What is check, call, care?
The first thing to do before giving care.
What is obtaining consent?
The direction to move along the body when checking a person.
First thing to do if you think someone is having a cardiac arrest?
What is calling 911?
Care for an infant that is choking.
What is placing your forearm along their back and giving 5 chest compressions, and then flipping them onto the other arm and, while supporting their neck and head, giving them 5 back blows?
Medicine to help with heart attacks.
What is aspirin?
What PPE stands for.
What is personal protective equipment?
The depth for compressions on an adult.
What is about 2 inches?
Device that protects from contact with saliva and other body fluids as one is giving rescue breaths.
What is a breathing barrier?
(Face shield, pocket mask).
The way to take off gloves.
What is pinching the palm side of one glove on the outside near your wrist, then pulling towards your fingertips turning it inside out, then balling it up in the still gloved hand, then slipping two fingers under the wrist of the gloved hand and pulling towards your fingertips turning it inside out, and finally disposing of the gloves.
Recovery position for an adult or child.
What is extending their arm to the side closest to you, rolling them so their arm is under their head, and bend both their knees to stabilize them?
Increases a person's discomfort if having a heart attack.
The way to clearing the airway.
What CPR stands for.
What is cardiopulmonary resuscitation?