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Chapter 7. Basic Life SupportDefine: Automated External Defibrillator (AED) - answer a small, portable device that
analyzes the heart rhythm, alerts the rescuer, and provides the necessary shock
Define: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) - answera lifesaving procedure
combining rescue breathing and chest breathing
Define: Chain of Survival - answera sequence of actions that reduces the mortality rate
of cardiac arrest
Define: Chest Compressions - answer repeated and controlled pressure in the sternum
of a cardiac arrest victim (allows oxygen to move throughout the body)
Define: Circulation, Airway, Breathing (CAB) - answerCPR's first steps
Define: Good Samaritan Laws - answerlegal protection for people who give reasonable
assistance to the injured, ill, peril, or incapacitated
Define: Head-tilt, chin-lift maneuver - answera procedure for opening a blocked airway
(a patients head is tilted back and the chin is lifted)
Define: Obstructed airway maneuver - answerquick upward thrust against a patient's
abdomen (removes obstructions and an open airway from the mouth/nose to the lungs)
Define: Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) - answerheartbeat stops beating suddenly (can
cause death)
Define: Log roll - answerprocedure used to turn a patient over
Define: Trachea - answerwindpipe
Define: Supine - answerlying on the back
Define: Cardiac arrest - answerabsence of heartbeat
Define: Back of tongue - answerepiglottis
Define: Xiphoid process - answerbony tip of the sternum
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