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✔✔Conscious choking adult, child, and infant - ✔✔Ask if the choking, ask permission to
help, have them point to their belly button and make a fist just above the navel, do
abdominal thrust in and upward until the object comes out or they go unconscious.
✔✔Pregnant choking victim - ✔✔instead of abdominal thrusts, place your fist in the
middle of their sternum. Continue to give compression until the object has come out or
they go unconscious.
✔✔Unconscious chocking - ✔✔slowly lower them to the ground, call 911 if you haven't
already, go directly into 30 compressions and 2 breaths. Check in their mouth to see if
you see the object. If you see it grab it out if not give breaths. If the first breath does not
go in - re-position the head and try again. If the second breath does not go in continue
with chest compression.
✔✔RICE - ✔✔Res
Immobilize
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Elevate
✔✔Common signs of sudden illness - ✔✔nausea or vomiting, difficulty speaking or
slurred speech, numbness or weakness, loss of vision or blurred vision, changes in
breathing, sweating, persistent pressure or pain, diarrhea, paralysis or inability to move,
severe headache.
✔✔Seizures - ✔✔the electrical activity of the brain becomes irregular due to injury,
disease, fever, or infection.
✔✔Signs of seizures - ✔✔blank stare, period of distorted sensation, unable to respond
to sudden movement, and uncontrolled muscle contractions.
✔✔Febrile seizures - ✔✔seizures in infants that result due to high body temperatures.
✔✔Care for a seizure - ✔✔protect the person's head, monitor their breathing, turn on
their side if they vomit, call 911 and note the time the seizure started and ended, do not
move the person, do not restrain the person, do not put anything in their mouth.
✔✔Fainting - ✔✔when someone loses consciousness and then reawakens
✔✔Care for fainting - ✔✔lower the person to the ground or other flat surface and
position them on their back, raise their legs 8-12 inches off the ground.
, ✔✔Signs of fainting - ✔✔becomes pale, begins to sweat, loses consciousness,
collapses
✔✔Heat cramps - ✔✔painful muscle spasms, occur in the legs and abdomen
✔✔Heat cramps care - ✔✔care for them by giving them cool water or a sports drink,
rest in a cool place, and stretch
✔✔heat exhaustion - ✔✔a form of physical stress on the body caused by overheating
✔✔Signs of heat exhaustion - ✔✔cool, moist, pale, or flushed skin; heavy sweating;
headache nausea or vomiting; dizziness; and exhaustion. Body temperature near
normal
✔✔Heat stroke - ✔✔a dangerous condition in which the body loses its ability to cool
itself through perspiration
✔✔Signs for heat stroke - ✔✔red skin that can either be dry or moist, changes in
consciousness, rapid weak pulse, rapid and shallow breathing, could seizure
✔✔3 heat related emergencies - ✔✔heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke
✔✔2 cold related emergencies - ✔✔frostbite and hypthermia
✔✔frostbite - ✔✔a condition that results when body tissues become frozen
✔✔Signs of frostbite - ✔✔lack of feeling in the affected areas, skin that appears waxy,
skin is cold to touch, and skin is flushed, white, yellow or blue.
✔✔Hypothermia - ✔✔the entire body cools because its ability to keep warm fails.
✔✔Signs of hypothermia - ✔✔shivering, numbness, glassy stare, indifference or loss of
consciousness, shivering can stop without warning.
✔✔Muscles, bones and joints injuries - ✔✔fracture, strain, sprain, and dislocation
✔✔Strain - ✔✔is a stretching or tearing of muscles or tendons.
✔✔Fracture - ✔✔a complete break, chip, or cracked bone. Fractures can be open or
closed.
✔✔Sprain - ✔✔is the tearing of ligaments at a joint.
✔✔Dislocation - ✔✔the movement of the bone at a joint away from its normal position.