EMS
Not breathing, chest pain pressure, severe bleeding, head or spine injuries, vomiting blood, drowning, etc.
What are the Good Samaritan Laws?
Designed to encourage people to help others in emergency without worry of being sued.
What is first AID?
Immediate help given to a victim of injury or sudden illness.
What does consent mean?
It's the permission of the injured or a parent/guardian before giving first aid.
A student is eating a sandwich and suddenly can’t breathe.
Choking
What is the primary goal of Emergency Medical Services? (EMS)
To provide immediate medical care and transport ti individuals experiencing medical emergencies.
To protect yourself from a lawsuit you must...
- Act only as trained.
- Get a victim's consent before.
- Do not move victim.
- Call for professional help.
What is CPR?
An emergency life-saving procedure performed when a person's heartbeat or breathing has stopped
What does negligence mean?
When you don't follow accepted standards of care when providing first aid.
Someone cuts their arm badly on broken glass.
Severe bleeding
When to call EMS?
Call if you recognize a life-threatening injury or illness in which it threatens a victim’s breathing or blood circulation.
What is expressed consent?
What should you do is someone is choking?
Encourage them to continue coughing, deliver back blows, and perform abdominal thrusts. If the person become unresponsive, begin CPR and call emergency services.
An athlete twists their ankle in PE class.
Sprained ankle
EMS professionals, explain what are them.
- Trained in obtaining information
- Determines what emergency personnel and equipment will likely be needed
Is when a victim is unresponsive and a parent/guardian is unavailable.
What should you do if someone has a burn?
Cool the burn, remove constricting items, cover the burn and seek medical attention.
What does confidentiality mean?
The general principle that you should not give out any private information about a victim to anyone except for those caring for the victim.
A student faints during a school assembly.
Fainting
What is EMS?
Comprehensive network of professionals linked together to provide appropriate levels of medical care for victims of injury or sudden illness.
What is duty of care?
The legal responsibility of an EMT to provide appropriate and reasonable care to a patient.
Primary four goals of first AID?
- Keep the victim alive.
- Prevent the victim´s condition getting worse.
- Help promote early recovery.
- Ensure the victim receives appropriate medical care.
What should be EMS highest priority?
Ensuring the safety of the EMS crew, the patient, and the public.
Someone spills hot tea on their hand.
Burn