First Aid Severe Emergencies

If you started to choke on some food and you were alone, what should you do?

• Stick your finger down your throat and try to remove the food

• Lean forward over a railing or chair and thrust yourself down until you dislodge the obstruction

• Lay down flat and try to cough

• Bend over until your head is upside-down and try to cough

The symptoms are cool, pale, clammy skin, and enlarged pupils-staring off into space. What is the emergency?

If you entered a room and saw this scene, what would you think is happening?

• He is trying to fix the chair back

• He is choking and trying to dislodge the obstruction

• He is having a stroke and is falling over

If a person's leg is bleeding severely, you should __________. What is the best thing to do?

• have them stand up

• have them lay down and put a pillow under their leg

• have them lay down and put a pillow under their head and chest

T or F: In hands-only CPR, you perform 30 chest compressio's in 100 seconds.

• True

• False

T or F: If you think someone is having a heart attack, but is breathing normally and responsive in every other way, you should perform CPR or hands-only CPR.

• True

• False

Which picture shows an automated external defibrillator?

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A(n) __________ is the stoppage of the heart.

• abdominal thrust

• cardiac arrest

• automated external defibrillator

• stroke

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation(CPR) is a procedure that is used when __________.

• an AED is available

• someone is unconscious, due to a heart attack, stroke, or some other medical emergency

• untrained bystanders are the only people available to help a heart attack victim

• someone is conscious, but gasping for air and has chest pain

In __________ the blood flow to your brain stops.

• respiratory arrest

• cardiac arrest

• a stroke

• shock