HSI BASIC LIFE SUPPORT
You are a BLS provider assessing an unresponsive person. The scene is safe, and you have
taken widespread precautions. When you assess for breathing and pulse, you simply sense a
pulse and notice the person is respiration commonly. You should:
Maintain an open airway.
This BLS application is meant to:
train BLS carriers in resuscitation, in the context of your setting, and put together you to
apprehend cardiac arrest in sufferers of every age.
When the decrease chambers of the coronary heart beat too quick or quiver, the heart can not
pump blood. These strange heart rhythms, or dysrhythmias, are known as
___________________ and _________________________.
Pulseless ventricular tachycardia (VT), ventricular fibrillation (VF)
When chest compressions stop, blood go with the flow ______________________ notably.
Decreases
To open the airway with a jaw thrust, function your self:
Above the affected person's head.
Too many rescue breaths too fast or breaths that are too big is _______________________,
which may be harmful.
Excessive ventilation
You are a lone BLS Provider responding to a likely adult cardiac arrest. The scene is secure.
You have taken fashionable precautions. The patient is unresponsive. You have activated EMS
and/or your EAP. Other companies are at the way. You have an AED. The affected person is
now and again gasping. You do no longer sense a carotid pulse. What need to you do?
Power on the AED. Apply person pads to the patient's bare chest.
You are a BLS provider assessing an unresponsive person. The scene is safe, and you have
taken widespread precautions. When you assess for breathing and pulse, you simply sense a
pulse and notice the person is respiration commonly. You should:
Maintain an open airway.
This BLS application is meant to:
train BLS carriers in resuscitation, in the context of your setting, and put together you to
apprehend cardiac arrest in sufferers of every age.
When the decrease chambers of the coronary heart beat too quick or quiver, the heart can not
pump blood. These strange heart rhythms, or dysrhythmias, are known as
___________________ and _________________________.
Pulseless ventricular tachycardia (VT), ventricular fibrillation (VF)
When chest compressions stop, blood go with the flow ______________________ notably.
Decreases
To open the airway with a jaw thrust, function your self:
Above the affected person's head.
Too many rescue breaths too fast or breaths that are too big is _______________________,
which may be harmful.
Excessive ventilation
You are a lone BLS Provider responding to a likely adult cardiac arrest. The scene is secure.
You have taken fashionable precautions. The patient is unresponsive. You have activated EMS
and/or your EAP. Other companies are at the way. You have an AED. The affected person is
now and again gasping. You do no longer sense a carotid pulse. What need to you do?
Power on the AED. Apply person pads to the patient's bare chest.
