Red Cross
The main Red Cross symbol is a red cross on a background of this color.
What is white?
This life-saving CPR technique involves alternating chest compressions with these to deliver oxygen to the lungs.
What are rescue breaths?
People who give their blood to help sick or injured people are called blood this.
What are donors?
When a bad storm comes, the Red Cross sets up these temporary safe places in schools or gyms for families to sleep.
What are shelters?
Training teaches sitters to do a walkthrough of the home to identify potential dangers, a process known as safety this.
What is childproofing (or a safety check)?
The American Red Cross was founded in this year.
What is 1881?
When caring for severe external bleeding, direct pressure should be applied first; if bleeding continues uncontrollably on a limb, this device should be used.
What is a tourniquet?
This letter-named blood type is famous because it can be safely given to almost anyone in an emergency.
What is Type O?
Giant, spinning ocean storms with strong winds and heavy rain are called hurricanes in the Atlantic, but are called this in the Pacific Ocean.
What are typhoons?
According to safe sleep guidelines, infants under 12 months should always be placed to sleep on this part of their body.
What is their back?
In addition to blood and disaster relief, the Red Cross is one of the largest providers of training in this emergency heart-saver method.
What is CPR?
In first aid, the acronym FAST is used to quickly spot signs of this medical emergency affecting brain blood flow.
What is a stroke?
Donors must meet a minimum weight requirement, usually this many pounds, to ensure that giving a pint of blood is safe for their body size.
What is 110 pounds?
An emergency kit should include a supply of necessary prescription medications lasting at least this many days.
What is 7 days (or up to 14 days)?
This sweet liquid food product should never be given to infants under one year old due to the risk of infant botulism poisoning.
What is honey?
The Red Cross was created in this famous neutral European country known for mountains and chocolates.
What is Switzerland?
Known by the acronym AED, this life-saving device checks heart rhythms and delivers an electric shock if needed
What is an Automated External Defibrillator?
Red Cross guidelines require standard whole blood donors to wait at least this many days between donations to allow iron levels and red blood cells to fully restore.
What is 56 days (8 weeks)?
The Red Cross responds to an emergency in the United States approximately once every this many minutes.
What is 8 minutes?
The American Red Cross launched its first official, standardized Babysitter's Training course in this decade.
What are the 1980s
This famous nurse started the American Red Cross way back in 1881.
Who was Clara Barton?
If direct pressure and gauze become soaked with blood during initial wound management, you should do this instead of removing the original soaked dressings.
What is adding more gauze on top (maintaining continuous pressure)?
What is 4.6 million blood donations?
About 90% of all disasters that the American Red Cross responds to are these common domestic emergencies.
What are home fires?
Abbreviated SIDS, this sudden and unexplained medical risk in infants is significantly reduced by practicing safe sleep habits.
What is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome?