Vocabulary
Symptoms, Allergies, and Medication
Five hits to the back between the shoulder blades
What is back blows?
Do no further harm. Monitor the person’s breathing and level of consciousness. Help the person rest in the most comfortable position Keep the person from getting chilled or overheated. Reassure the person that you will help and that EMS personnel have been called (if appropriate).
what to do if one obtains sudden illness.
The pain or discomfort is persistent, lasting longer than 3 to 5 minutes, or going away and then coming back.
what is sympotoms and signs of a Heart attack
ratio of compressions to breathes required for CPR
What is 30 compressions andd 2 breaths?
Used for sudden or unexpected emergencies
What is First Aid Kit?
A person who is choking typically has a panicked, confused or surprised facial expression.
What is sign of choking
occurs when blood flow to part of the brain is interrupted by a blood clot, resulting in the death of brain cells.
What is a stroke
Call 9-1-1 or the designated emergency number immediately. Have the person stop what he or she is doing and rest in a comfortable position to reduce the heart’s need for oxygen.
What is what one must do if someone might be having a heart attack,
Method to open and maintain the airway of an unresponsive person.
What is Head Tilt-Chin Lift?
skill that is used when a person is in cardiac arrest to keep oxygenated blood moving to the brain and other vital organs until advanced medical help arrives. involves giving sets of 30 chest compressions followed by sets of 2 rescue breaths.
What is CPR
stand behind the person, with one foot in front of the other for balance and stability. If possible, place your front foot between the person’s feet. Wrap your arms around the person’s waist.
What is Abdominal thrusts
difficulty breathing, is evidenced by signs and symptoms such as shortness of breath, gasping for breath
What is respitory distress
how long a person has left before permanant brain damage is permanant
What is 8-10?
Rate per minute for giving CPR
What is 100-120 per minutes.
Used to protect you from contact with saliva and other bodly fluids, such as blood, when giving rescure breathes.
What is CPR Breathing Barriers?
seeing an object in the person’s mouth, remove it using your finger
What is Finger swipe
an illness that strikes suddenly and usually only lasts for a short period of time.
Whatis an Acute illness
For each minute that CPR and use of an AED are delayed, the person’s chance for survival is reduced by about what precent
What is 10%
Hand position for infant
What is two fingers one center of chest and other hand on forehead?
Occurs when the heart stops beating or beats too ineffectively to circulate blood to the brainand other vital organs
What is Cardiac arrest?
person is too large for you to wrap your arms around to give abdominal thrusts.
What is Chest thrusts for bigger people
chronic illness in which certain substances or conditions, called triggers, cause inflammation and narrowing of the airways, making breathing difficult.
People worried about hurting the person (for example, by breaking the person’s ribs or breastbone) while giving CPR, but a person who is in need of CPR is clinically dead (i.e., the person has no heartbeat and is not breathing).
what is Lay reponders
Shoulders directly over hands with elbows locked
What is position for CPR