Foundations
What does the acronym EMS, stand for?
What is Emergency Medical Services?
When a subject can not function properly and can not answer your questions in some way.
What is Unresponsive?
When blood flow to part of the heart muscle is blocked.
What is a heart attack?
Name 2 foods that are a Choking Hazard.
What does anaphalaxys mean more commonly?
What is an Allergic Reaction?
Who should you have in your Emergency Contact List?
(Name one of the following)
What does the Safety Acronym stand for, C-C-C?
What is Check - Call - Care?
Name a mental sign of a heart attack.
What is dizziness, light-headedness, nausea, Unresponsiveness, or Extreme fatigue?
A choking subject requires ________ back blows, followed by _________ Abdominal Thrusts.
What is 5x5
The absence of breathing
What is Respiratory Arrest?
Laws that usually protect responders who act a "reasonable and prudent person" would act if that person were in the same situation
What are the Good Samaritan Laws?
What object(s) must you retrieve in the instance of an unresponsive drowning subject?
What is a AED and a First-Aid Kit
Which gender has Chest Pain as a signature symptom?
What is a Male?
Name a household object that is known for a choking hazard.
What are coins, buttons, magnets, marbles, beads, pebbles, and pen/marker caps?
A chronic illness that "attacks" in which certain substances or conditions triggers inflamation in the lungs making it harder to breathe,
What is Asthma?
Name all four of the "Signs of Emergency"
Unusual Sights, Sounds, Odors, or Behaviors
What is the first stage of emergency if the subject speaks a different Language?
What occurs when the heart stops beating or beats too ineffectively to circulate blood to the Brain and other organs?
An action that requires you to locate the belly-button of a subject.
What is adult abdominal thrusts?
What are Quick-relief (Rescue) and Long-term Control?
Someone who is unresponsive, confused, or mentally impaired may not be able to grant consent. In these cases, the law assumes the person would give consent....
What is implied consent?
What does the SAM stand for in SAMPLE?
What is Signs, Allergies, and Medications?
What is Aspirin?
Name 3 reasons why you would change how you care for a choking person.
What is a person's size, age, weight, disabilities, pregnancy, or social surroundings? (Are they alone?)
The abrupt loss of the heart's ability to contract and push blood forward through the circulatory system. Typically caused by a sudden disruption of the heart's electrical system?
What is Sudden Cardiac Arrest.