CPR & EMS Flashcards
First thing when assessing scene ?
Scene safety!
Cpr compressions for adult and infants
30 compressions -2 breaths adult
15-2 infant
5 EMR Responsibilities
- Ensuring personal and bystander safety
- Gaining safe access to the patient
- Determining any threats to the patients life
- Summon more advanced medical
- Provide needed care to patient
6, Assisting more advanced medical personnel
Four conditions necessary to spread disease ?
Presence of pathogen, sufficient quantity, susceptible person, pathogen passing through correct entry site
What are the 5 stages of grief?
Denial, Anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance
Why are the two types of consent for CPR
Direct - verbal or gestured consent
Implied- patient unconscious, law assumes that patient would give consent if they could to so
When do you perform a “head tilt chin lift”
No suspected head, neck or spinal injury
When should you perform a Jaw-thrust?
When there is a suspected neck head or spinal injury