Chapter 1
This is the first step you should take when you recognize an emergency.
What is checking the scene for safety?
This is the type of consent assumed when a person is unresponsive or unable to give permission.
What is implied consent?
This is the recommended rate of chest compressions per minute during CPR for an adult.
What is 100 to 120 compressions per minute?
This is the device used to analyze the heart’s rhythm and, if necessary, deliver an electric shock to help the heart re-establish an effective rhythm.
What is an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)?
This is the first step in the emergency action steps.
What is check the scene and the person?
These are the three C’s of emergency response.
What are Check, Call, and Care?
This is the term for the legal responsibility to continue providing care once you have started, until someone with equal or higher training takes over.
What is the duty to act?
This is the depth to which you should compress the chest of an adult during CPR.
What is at least 2 inches (5 cm)?
This is the first thing you should do when the AED arrives.
What is turn on the AED?
This is the term for the life-threatening condition that occurs when the body is not getting enough blood flow.
What is shock?
This is the term for the immediate care given to an injured or ill person until professional help arrives.
What is first aid?
This is the term for the legal protection that encourages people to help others in emergency situations without fear of being sued.
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
This is the ratio of chest compressions to rescue breaths in CPR for adults.
What is 30 compressions to 2 breaths?
These are the two areas on the body where AED pads should be placed.
What are the upper right chest and lower left side of the chest?
This is the first step you should take to control external bleeding.
What is apply direct pressure?
This is the term for the legal protection given to someone who voluntarily provides emergency care without expecting anything in return.
What is the Good Samaritan Law?
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 The Good Samaritan Law?
This is the term for the technique of providing chest compressions without rescue breaths.
What is hands-only CPR?
This is the action you should take when the AED prompts “analyzing heart rhythm.”
What is ensure no one is touching the person?
This is the acronym used to remember the steps for treating a muscle, bone, or joint injury.
What is RICE (Rest, Immobilize, Cold, Elevate)?
This is the term for the permission to provide care, which must be obtained from a responsive person before giving first aid.
What is consent?
This is the term for the permission to provide care, which must be obtained from a responsive person before giving first aid.
What is expressed consent?
This is the first step you should take when you find someone unresponsive and not breathing.
What is call 9-1-1 or the local emergency number?
This is the step to take immediately after the AED delivers a shock.
What is resume CPR starting with chest compressions?
This is the term for the technique used to open a person’s airway by tilting the head back and lifting the chin.
What is the head-tilt/chin-lift technique