Chapter 1
A network of professionals linked together to provide the best care for people in all types of emergencies.
What is EMS system?
When a person is responsive but not fully awake you put them in this position.
What is Recovery position?
Occurs when blood flow to part of the heart muscle is blocked
What is a heart attack.
What are Choking hazards.
an illness that strikes suddenly and usually lasts for a short period of time
What is acute illness
- Screaming or yelling for help
- sudden, loud noises such as breaking glass
- unusual silence
What are unusual sounds?
Have the parent hold them in place on their lap.
What is strategies for gathering information efficiently - infants (birth to 1 year)?
occurs when the heart stops beating or beats too ineffectively to circulate blood to the brain and other vital organs.
What is cardiac arrest.
Position yourself to the side of the person and place one arm diagonally across the person's chest. Firmly strike the person between the shoulder blades with the heel of your other hand.
is an illness that a person lives with on an ongoing basis and that often requires continuous treatment to manage.
What is chronic illness
Laws that protect responders who act the way a "reasonable and prudent person" would act if that person were in the same situation.
What are Good Samaritan laws?
What is strategies for gathering information effectively - Toddlers (1 to 3 years).
Can occur after the heart has stopped beating; not breathing and are not a sign of cardiac arrest
What is agonal breaths.
Find the person’s navel by placing one finger on the person’s navel, and the adjacent finger above the first. Make a fist with your other hand and place the thumb side just above your fingers. Cover your fist with your other hand and give quick, inward and upward thrusts into the person’s abdomen.
What are abdominal thrusts.
difficulty breathing, is evidenced by signs and symptoms such as shortness of breath, gasping for breath
What is respiratory distress.
Spread when blood from an infected person enters the bloodstream of a person who is not infected.
What is Bloodborne pathogens?
Signs and symptoms, allergies, medications, pertinent medical history, last food or drink, events leading up to the incident
What is SAMPLE?
describes the five actions that when performed in rapid succession increase the person's likelihood of surviving cardiac arrest
what is cardiac chain of survival.
Give chest thrusts instead of abdominal thrusts
What is the person is too large to give abdominal thrusts.
(breathing that is faster and shallower than normal), or breathing that is uncomfortable or painful.
What is hyperventilation.
Pathogens that are expelled into the air when an infected person breathes, coughs, or sneezes.
What is Airborne pathogens?
Place them on their side as you would an older child, or you can hold them by putting them face-down along your forearm
What is recovery positions for an infant.
Skill that is used when a person is in cardiac arrest to keep oxygenated blood moving to the brain and other vital organs
What is CPR.
1. verify that the person is choking 2. give 5 back blows 3. give 5 abdominal thrusts 4. continue giving sets of back blows and 5 abdominal thrusts
What is caring for an adult who is choking.
absence of breathing
What is respiratory arrest