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Practical Health
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| EMS=? | police, fire, madical personel |
| Your role in EMS | 1 reg\cognize an emergency 2 decide to act 3 call for help 4 provide care |
| Recognizing an emergency | 1 unusual sight 2 unusual sound 3 Unusual smell 4 unusual behavior or apperece |
| emergency action steps | Check, Call, Care |
| Checking conscious victim | What is the firat thing to do? Am i allowed to help you? |
| Does the rescurer every touch maxine?if so why? | no only to feel her head |
| where do you start and end your check? | start at the head end at the toes |
| how is a chilld diffrent then checking an adult | they cant talk or are shy and make sure to keep them with family |
| Whats the good samairtain law? | law protects you from being sued |
| reasons people dont get invovled? | 1 afraid of being sued 2 afraid of catching a diseace 3dont know what to do 4 scared 5 afraid of doing something wrong 6 to many poeple around |
| What dispatcher needs to know | 1 exact location 2 Name 3 what happened 4 phone number 5 how many victims 6condition of victims 7 what help is being given |
| what should u always do when on the phone with dispatcher | hang up last |
| checking unconscious victim | 1 check scene for safety, if seen is safe 2 tap and shout 3 call 911 4 check breathing for 10 seconds 5 give 2 sow breaths 6 check pulse for 10 seconds 7 check for severe breathing |
| Life thrating conditions | unconscious no/trouble breating no pulse severe bleeding |
| signals of breathing information | trouble brathing slow or rapid brathing |
| a brathing emergency=? | any respitory problem that can threaten a persons life |
| one air reached the lungs... | oxygen in the air is transferred to the blood |
| Asthma? | a inflammation of the air passages that result in a temprpray narrowing the air ways that carry oxygen to the lungs |
| signals of brething emergency | 1 breathing unusually slow or fast 2 breaathing unusual deep or shallow 3 gasping for air 4 weezing, gurgling,high pitched noises 5 chest pain, tingling in hand or feet 6 skin- flushed , pail, or bluish color 7 dizzy 8 victim feel short of breath |
| what causes brathing to stop | tounge in unconsi=cious person chocking injury to head/ brain injury to chest poisoning allergic reaction drownding electric shock asthma |
| Brain damage- | occurs due to lack of oxygen of the brain |
| minutes of brain damage occuring | 4-6 minutes brain damage starts to occur 10 minutes or longwe brain damage is permant |
| hyperventlation | breathing faster than normal |
| signs/symtomsof hyperventlation | 1 rapid/shallow breathing 2 dizzy or light headed 3 numbness or tingling 4 victim is affraid 5 victim feels like they cant get enough air |
| causes of hyperventilation | fear/anxiety severe bleeding diacbeticc emergency head injury asthma |
| conscous chocking- | can i help you are you chocking 5 back blows abdomen thrusts above navel below ribs reapeat steps 2-3 until something changes |
| recue breathing- | check scene tap and shout call 911 check breathing for 10 seconds ----not breathing---- give 2 slow breaths check pulse for 10 seconds ----has pulse not breathing---- begining rescue breathing |
| how many breaths how often for rescue breathing | 1 breath= every 5 seconds' 1 minute= 12 breaths breath lasts for 1 second |
| diffrence and defination of heart attacks and cardiac arrest | ith cardiac arrest no blood flows to the heart, a heart attack some blood flows to the heart |
| signals of heart attacks | chest pain trouble breathing no signals at all |
| cpr= | check scene tap and shout call 911 check breathing for 10 seconds give 2 slow breaths check pulse for 10 seconds ----no pulse no breathing---- begin CPR= 30 chest compresions 1 cycle= 30 5 cycles= 2 minutes compress 2 inched |
| unconscious breathing | check scene tap and shout call 911 check breathing for 10 seconds give to slow breaths check pulse for 10 seconds chest compresions= 30 give 2 slow breaths ----air does not go down---- retilt head give 2 more slow breaths 30 chest compresions |
| AED | turn it on place pads on the chest= upper right lower left chest plug in electrodes into AED anaylyze press chock if adused |
| signals of a heart attack | chest pain or discomfert breathing difficulty changes in pulse rate skin apperance weird |
| AGINA PECTORIS= | chest pain |
| care for heart attack | recognize the signals convince the victim to stop activity and rest obtain info on their condition confort victim call 911 monitor their conditon |
| preventing heart discease RISK FACTORS | men have a higher rish then women family history smoking diest high in fat high blood pressure obesity lack of excercise |
| target heart rate- | 65%- 80% of maximum heart rate |
| Maximum heart reate= | 220-age-x .65 |
| heart attack= | heart beat irregurary |
| cardiac arrest0 | heart stops beating |
| the heart= right side recieves- left side recives- | poor blood rich blood and pumps it to the body |
| nasal cavity- | the opening behinfd the nose |
| pharynx- | a hollow tube that starts behind the nose |
| trachea- | a tube like portion of respirtaion tract that connects the larynx with bronchial parts of the lungs |
| bronchus- | a large air tube that begins at the trachea and branches to the lungs |
| lungs- | a pair of breathing rgans located in the chest which removes carbon dioxide from and bring oxygen to the blood |
| diaphragm- | the main muscle of respiration |
| larynx- | a tube shaped organ in the neck that contains the vocal cords |