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Define: Automated External Defibrillator (AED) - ANSWER: ➡ a small, portable device that
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analyzes the heart rhythm, alerts the rescuer, and provides the necessary shock
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Define: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) - ANSWER: ➡ a lifesaving procedure
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combining rescue breathing and chest breathing
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Define: Chain of Survival - ANSWER: ➡ a sequence of actions that reduces the mortality rate
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of cardiac arrest
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Define: Chest Compressions - ANSWER: ➡ repeated and controlled pressure in the sternum
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of a cardiac arrest victim (allows oxygen to move throughout the body)
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Define: Circulation, Airway, Breathing (CAB) - ANSWER: ➡ CPR's first steps
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Define: Good Samaritan Laws - ANSWER: ➡ legal protection for people who give reasonable
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assistance to the injured, ill, peril, or incapacitated
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Define: Head-tilt, chin-lift maneuver - ANSWER: ➡ a procedure for opening a blocked airway
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(a patients head is tilted back and the chin is lifted)
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Define: Obstructed airway maneuver - ANSWER: ➡ quick upward thrust against a patient's
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abdomen (removes obstructions and an open airway from the mouth/nose to the lungs)
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Define: Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) - ANSWER: ➡ heartbeat stops beating suddenly (can
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cause death)
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, Define: Log roll - ANSWER: ➡ procedure used to turn a patient over
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Define: Trachea - ANSWER: ➡ windpipe
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Define: Supine - ANSWER: ➡ lying on the back
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Define: Cardiac arrest - ANSWER: ➡ absence of heartbeat
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Define: Back of tongue - ANSWER: ➡ epiglottis
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Define: Xiphoid process - ANSWER: ➡ bony tip of the sternum
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AED stands for ________ _________ ________. - ANSWER: ➡ automated external defibrillator
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The absence of a heartbeat is called ________ _______. - ANSWER: ➡ cardiac arrest
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When both ________ and ________ cease, the patient experiences clinical death. - ANSWER: ➡
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respirations/pulse
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After ________ to ________ minutes without a(n) ________ or ________, the brain does not receive the
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oxygen it needs, and the brain cells begin to die. - ANSWER: ➡ 4/6/pulse/respirations
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