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First Aid
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| first aid | is the immedate emergency care given to a sick, or injured person before professional medical care arives. |
| Good samaritan laws | laws that protect people who assists victims in an emergency. |
| Universal precautions | methods of self protection that prevents contact with blood or other body fluids. |
| Heimlich maneuver | firm upward thrusts below the rib cage to force an object out of victims airway. |
| rescue breathing | putting oxygen from the rescuers lungs into an unconscious person's lungs to help the person breathe. |
| Cardiac arrest | condition in whicth the heart has stopped beating and there is no pulse. |
| CPR | an emergancy procedure for cordiovascular falure. |
| shock | failure of the cardiovasular system to provide enough blood to the body. |