Choking
Nuts/seeds
Hot dogs and sausages
Popcorn
Chunks of fruit
Peanut butter
What are choking hazard foods?
An illness that strikes suddenly and usually only lasts for a short period of time.
What is an acute illness?
When blood flow to part of the heart muscle is blocked
What is a heart attack?
An acronym representing a series of six questions that you, as a caregiver, can ask a responsive, injured person.
What is SAMPLE?
Restlessness or irritability
Altered level of consciousness
Rapid breathing
Rapid, weak heartbeat
What are signs of shock?
Buttons
Magnets
Marbles
What are household items that are a choking hazard?
Trouble breathing
Pain, such as chest pain, abdominal pain or a headache.
Changes in level of consciousness
Becoming unresponsive
What are some signs/symptoms of a sudden illness?
When it is assumed that an unresponsive person would have given consent to care if they were responsive.
What is implied consent?
This position helps to lower the person’s risk for choking and aspiration. This is also used if a person with an injury begins to vomit, or if it is necessary to leave the person alone to call 911.
What is the recovery position?
Bleeding that occurs inside the body, into a body cavity or space.
What is Internal Bleeding?
The number of back blows and abdominal thrusts given when a patient is choking.
What are 5 back blows and 5 abdominal thrusts?
A chronic illness where certain substances or conditions, called triggers, cause inflammation and narrowing of airways, making breathing difficult.
What is asthma?
When the heart stops beating or beats too ineffectively to circulate blood to the brain and other vital organs.
What is cardiac arrest?
What is 5-10 seconds?
A part of the skin, or sometimes the underlying tissue, is partially or completely torn away.
What is abrasion?
Give the patient chest thrusts instead of abdominal thrusts.
What is choking care for a pregnant women?
A severe, life-threatening allergic reaction.
What is anaphylaxis?
A pill that helps to prevent blood clotting and is most effective when given soon after the onset of signs and symptoms of a heart attack.
What is aspirin?
How to perform a head to toe check on a young or frightened child.
What is checking from toe to head.
A cut, commonly from a sharp object. This can also occur when a blunt force splits the skin.
What is laceration?
Give yourself abdominal thrusts or bend over and press your abdomen against a firm object.
What is caring yourself when you are alone and choking?
A drug that slows or stops the effects of anaphylaxis.
What is epinephrine?
The three C's of caring for an injured person.
What is check, call, care?
The recovery position for an infant.
What is placing the infant on his or her side as or holding the infant face-down along your forearm, supporting the infant’s head and neck while keeping the mouth and nose clear.
A device placed around an arm or leg to constrict blood vessels and stop blood flow to a wound.
What is a tourniquet?