American Red Cross CPR / AED Certification Study Guide

American Red Cross CPR / AED Certification Study Guide What is the Citizen Responders first step in an emergency? - Recognize - check - call What is the most important thing you can do in any emergency? - Call all What are the correct steps in checking an emergency? - Check, Call, Care Why should you check a scene first before providing care? - To ensure the scene is safe. You don't want to place yourself in unsafe scene. What does implied consent refer? - If they are unconscious of a child with no adult, you can perform care If a child is bleeding badly, what should you do immediately? - Call all and stop blood (put on gloves) The best way to tell if a victim is conscious is to...? - Tap their left shoulder, check for breathing, ask them a question How should you check for signs of breathing? - Head back, chin up, face chest, listen for breathing watch chest, look listen and feel for 10 seconds Best way to prevent disease transmission? - Use gloves or anything that is a barrier to bodily fluid contact How should you check a conscious child for non-life threatening emergencies? - From head- to-toe talking them through with it If you think a person is not breathing, what would you do next? - Call all, look, listen and feel for breathing A victim is found face-up. How do you know if he/she is breathing? - You ask then if no response head tilt chin lift face chest and listen for breathing When should you call 911? - After recognizing scene or when given the consent of a life- threatening situation. When a person is unconscious, not breathing, or in a life-threatening emergency How can bystanders be helpful to you while you are checking the scene? - They can call all, care, provide info Why do we tilt a victim's head back? What is that technique called? - To open the airway, head tilt, chin lift If you are the only person at a scene, the child requires urgent care, do you call first or care first? - Call first, then care while help is on way Care first for a min, then call Why is it important not to move a victim? - To prevent further injury What are the barriers to action? - Being sued, fear of disease transmission, bystanders fear getting sued What are some life-threatening conditions? - Consistent chest pain fire, water, traffic In checking an unconscious victim, how many initial breaths should you give? - 0 2 after comp. What to do if someone vomits while giving RB's? - roll on side, clean it and continue breaths Adult CPR hand placement? How many hands? - 2 hands bottom of sternum (in between nipples) The cycle of compressions to breathe in CPR for an Adult victim is...? - 30 comp, 2 breaths, 100/minute CPR done on an adult should