Chapter 2 Cardiac Emergencies And CPR

Question 0

Where is the heart located???

Answer 0

Between the lungs in middle of the chest

Question 1

What is the size of a heart

Answer 1

Size of a fist

Question 2

What protects the heart????

Answer 2

The ribs, breastbone, and spine

Question 3

Which side of the heart does the blood with little or no oxygen go to?

Answer 3

The right side of the heart

Question 4

Which side of the heart does the rich oxygenated blood go to?

Answer 4

The left side of the heart

Question 5

What are arteries

Answer 5

They carry blood AWAY from the heart to rest of the body

Question 6

What are veins

Answer 6

They carry the blood to the heart

Question 7

What is cardiovascular disease

Answer 7

Is in abnormal condition that affects the heart and blood vessels.

Question 8

What is coronary heart disease

Answer 8

Heart disease that occurs when the arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle hardens and narrows this process is called atherosclerosis occurs gradually as cholesterols and fatty deposits called plaque buildup on the inner artery walls

Question 9

What is heart attack

Answer 9

When the blood and oxygen supply to heart is reduced

Question 10

What is the number one cause of heart attack

Answer 10

Coronary heart disease

Question 11

What are the symptoms of a heart attack

Answer 11

The symptoms of heart attack is 3 to 5 minutes chest pain comes back and goes away
Unbearable crushing sensation in the chest
Pressure squeezing tightness or heaviness in the chest

Pain and discomfort in the middle of the chest

Some individual may show no signs at all

Question 12

Most people who die of a heart attack die within two hours of the first signals true or false

Answer 12

True

Question 13

What to do until help arrived someone who has symptoms of a heart attack

Answer 13

Call 911
Have the person stop what he or she is doing and rest comfortably
Loosen any tight or uncomfortable clothing
Monitor persons breathing and monitor there behavior and condition
Be prepared to perform CPR and use in AED if it available if a person loses conscious and stops breathing

Ask the person if he or she has a history of heart disease some people with heart disease take prescribe medication for chest pains you can help by getting the medication for the person and assisting him or her taking the prescribed medication
Ask if they can take aspirin and make sure you ask them if they are allergic to aspirin give one adult aspirin or to baby chewable aspirin

Question 14

What questions should you ask before giving someone an aspirin

Answer 14

Are you allergic to aspirin
do you have a stomach ulcer disease
Are u taking any blood thinner
Have u been told by a doctor to avoid taking aspirin?

Question 15

What is cardiac arrest

Answer 15

Cardiac arrest occurs when the heart stops beating or beats ineffectively to circulate blood to the brain and other vital organs

Question 16

When does brain-damaged begin in cardiac arrest

Answer 16

Begins from 4 to 6 minutes in the damage can become irreversible in about 10 minutes

Question 17

What are the steps of cardiac chain of survival

Answer 17

Early recognization in early access to emergency medical services
early CPR
early defibrillation
early EMS medical care

Question 18

Went to stop CPR

Answer 18

You notice an obvious sign of life such as breathing in aed is available and ready to use
another trained responder or EMS personnel take over
You’re too exhausted to continue
the scene becomes unsafe

Question 19

Causes of cardiac emergencies in children and infants

Answer 19

Airway in breathing problems 
traumatic  injury or an accident 
a hard blow to the chest 
congenital heart disease 
sudden infant death syndrome

Question 20

What’s the difference between aspirin, tynole, iprofiun.

Answer 20

Aspirin is to thin your blood, so it could easly pass through the veins of ur hearts. Ibropufrin is for swelling and tynole is for pain and soreness.

Question 21

What is the diffrence between hypoclecima and hypercelima

Answer 21

Hypoclecima is when the body is low on sugar and hypercelima is when they are high on sugar.

Question 22

What is febrile seziure

Answer 22

It’s when the temperature is very high

Question 23

What is f.a.s.t

Answer 23

FACE: can they smile? , seziure. Victim cannot, half of there face is droopy

ARMS: can they put there arms up?

SPEECH: can they speak??? Or even they speak no words come out.

TIME: record the time when you see the symptom.

Question 24

What are the four type of poisons?

Answer 24

Absorbing, inhaling, , swallowing, injected

Question 25

What’s acute or chronic

Answer 25

Acute is shorterm, chronic is long term

Question 26

What is cardiac chain of survival

Answer 26

Early reconization
Early care
Early defiblirattion
Early advance medical care