Foundations of Care
Four signs of an emergency are...
What are unusual sounds, odors, sights, and behaviors.
Use this technique to gather more information
What is SAMPLE?
This occurs when blood flow to part of the heart muscle is blocked.
What is a Heart Attack?
This type of person may have a panicked, confused or surprised facial expression. Some people may place one or both hands on their throat. The person may cough or he or she may not be able to cough at all.
What is a Choking person?
This should be done initially before giving chest compressions if the person is suspected of drowning.
What are 2 rescue breaths?
These laws protect the responder from financial liability.
What are good Samaritan Laws?
You should check from head to toe unless you are checking this type of person.
What is a child.
This occurs when the heart stops beating or beats too ineffectively to circulate blood to the brain and other vital organs.
What is Cardiac Arrest?
Use this combination to care for a choking person
What are 5 back blows with 5 abdominal thrusts?
This is the recommended technique to open and maintain the airway of an unresponsive person. It pulls the jaw forward and lifts the tongue away from the back of the throat?
What is Head Tilt-Chin Lift
This is when a minor does not have an adult around and they are unresponsive.
What is implied consent?
Use this technique to see if the person is responsive
What is tap-shout-tap?
For each minute that CPR and use of an AED are delayed, the person’s chance for survival is reduced by about how much?
10%
supporting the this part of the infant with your thumb and fingers while caring for an infant who is choking
What is the jaw?
What are the beats per minute for CPR
100-120
These are spread when blood from an infected person enters the bloodstream of a person who is not infected.
What are Bloodborne pathogens?
Check a person for responsiveness for no longer than how many seconds?
10?
What involves giving CPR?
30 compressions, 2 breaths
Food, Household objects and toys are all choking hazards for who?
What are children under 4?
A basic CPR skill that creates increased pressure in the chest cavity and direct compression of the heart. This forces blood to move from the chest to the lungs, brain, and rest of the body?
What is Chest Compressions.
These are used to protect you from contact with saliva and other body fluids.
What is a face shield?
You should start CPR by giving this.
What are chest compressions?
An AED stands for?
If you are with a person who starts to choke, first ask the person this.
If he or she is choking?
The passageway between the mouth and lungs that allows life-sustaining oxygen into the body?
What is the Airway.