Category 1
Category 2
Category 3
Category 4
Category 5
100

Immediate emergency care given to a sick or injured person before professional medical care arrives

First aid

100

A kind of rubber used to make thin gloves for health care professionals

Latex

100

Layers of cloth and other materials that protect a wound

Dressing

100

A condition which a person's breathing has stopped

Respiratory failure

100

Rescue breathing

Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation

200

Laws that protect people helps other in emergencies

Good Samaritan laws

200

A way of giving firm upward thrusts below a person's rib cage to force out an object from the throat

Heimlich maneuver

200

The act of pressing against the chest over and over

Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR)

200

Putting oxygen from a rescuer's lungs into an unconscious person's lungs to help the person breathe

Rescue breathing

200

Free from bacteria

Sterile

300

Methods of self-protection that prevent contact with a person's blood or body fluids

Universal precautions

300

A sign made by grabbing the throat with the hand or hands to show a person is choking

Universal distress signal

300

Failure of the circulatory system to provide enough blood to the body

Shock

300

A condition in which the heart has stopped beating and there is no pulse

Cardiac arrest

300

A place on the body where an artery can be pressed against a bone to stop bleeding in an arm or a leg

Pressure point

400

Poisoning that happens after a harmful material is swallowed

Oral poisoning

400

Poisoning causes by breathing in harmful fumes

Inhalation poisoning

400

Short-term loss of consciousness caused by too little blood to the brain

Fainting

400

A condition that comes from hard physical work in a very hot place

Heat exhaustion

400

A condition that comes form being in high heat too long

Heatstroke

500

Poisoning that happens when harmful materials are absorbed through the skin

Contact poisoning

500

The tearing or stretching of tenons or ligaments that connect joints



Sprain

500

A serious disease that affects the nervous system

Rabies

500

A serious loss of body heat that comes from being in the cold too long

Hypothermia

500

A tissue injury caused by being in extreme cold

Frostbite