Helping Others In Need Flashcards
Why is time critical when someone needs emergency care?
Seconds count and if someone had no heartbeat and is not breathing, irreversible brain damage can occur within minutes
What are the three basic reasons for assisting someone who needs emergency care?
You can save or restore a patients life
You can help reduce a patients recovery time either in hospital or at home
You can make the difference between a patient having a temporary or lifelong disability
What are the six most common reasons why people hesitate to provide emergency care?
Anxiety Guilt Fear of imperfect performance Fear of making a person worse Fear of infection Responsibility concerns
Why does anxiety cause hesitation when providing emergency care?
General nervousness or anxiousness
A perfectly normal reaction
Trust your training
Why does guilt cause hesitation when providing emergency care?
They hesitate when thinking about how they might feel if the patient doesn’t recover
Be confident that your help has the potential to make a difference
Why does fear of imperfect performance cause hesitation when providing emergency care?
They may feel they can’t properly help them.
Adequate care is always better than perfect care withheld
Why does fear of making a person worse cause hesitation when providing emergency care?
You can’t make a person worse if they already aren’t breathing
Why does fear of infection cause hesitation when providing emergency care?
May be infected by the person they are assisting
Use barriers
Why does responsibility concern cause hesitation when providing emergency care?
May be afraid of being sued
What is a Good Samaritan law?
They are enacted to encourage people to come to the aid of others
They protect individuals who offer assistance to those in need
What are the six ways in which you must act to be protected by the Good Samaritan laws?
Only provide care that is within the scope of your training as an emergency responder
Ask for permission to help
Act in good faith
Do not be reckless or negligent
Act as a prudent person would
Do not abandon the patient once you begin care - exception is if you must do so to protect yourself from imminent danger
What is the chain of survival?
It illustrates the four links of patient care
Early recognition and call for help
Early CPR - cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Early defibrillation
Early professional care and follow up
Early recognition and call for help
First recognise that an emergency exists
Evaluate the scene
Call the emergency medical services
Early CPR - cardiopulmonary resuscitation
A person not breathing and with no heartbeat needs CPR immediately
Early CPR is the best treatment for cardiac arrest
Provides a small amount of blood flow to the heart brain and other vital organs
Early defibrillation
AEDs - automated external defibrillators
Automatically analyze the patients heart rhythm and indicates if an electric shock is required to restore a normal heartbeat
