GUARANTEED ACCURATE ANSWERS
Not Breathing Situations - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Hanging,
Strangulation, Suffocation, COMPLETE Obstruction, etc.
Ineffective Breathing phrases - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ "Barely
breathing", "Can't breath at all", "Gasping", "Turning purple", etc.
Obvious extreme respiratory distress (1st party) - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ A 1st party caller exhibiting signs including, but not
limited to, fighting for each breath, using single words or syllable to
express her/himself, expressing extreme desperation, or thoughts of
impending death.
Agonal Breathing - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ An ineffective,
deteriorating breathing pattern that lingers after the heart has essentially
stopped pumping blood to the brain.
Uncertain Breathing - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ A situation where a
2nd party caller is uncertain, unsure, indefinite, or ambiguous when
asked if an unconscious patient is breathing.
, MEDICAL - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ A sudden, unexplained
collapse resulting in unconsciousness, even when reported as ground-
level fall, should be considered _________________ cardiac arrest until
proven otherwise.
TRAUMATIC - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ When cardiac arrest
appears to be ____________ in nature, choose the Chief Complaint
Protocol that best fits scene safety concerns and the mechanism or
injury.
Mechanism of injury - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ If the complaint
description suggests TRAUMA, choose the Chief Complaint Protocol
that best addresses the _________________.
foremost symptom - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ If the complaint
description appears to be MEDICAL in nature, choose the Chief
Complaint Protocol that best fits the patient's ________________ , with
consideration given to priority symptoms.
Protocol 6 - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ When the complaint
description is breathing-related tracheostomy problems in the conscious
patient, go to ____________.
Do not utilize - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ If the complaint
description involves both chest pain/HEART ATTACK symptoms and