(EMR) Emergency Medical Response Module Overview
Emergency Medical Response Module Overview
In this unit, we are going to learn the steps necessary to deliver CPR and basic first aid in accordance with the American Heart Association. When performed correctly, the information that you learn from this unit can help you save lives of victims in cardiac arrest. You will also learn basic first aid and how to relieve choking. This course includes adult, child, and infant testing techniques.
Essential Questions
- What is START?
- What should be taken into consideration when establishing a response site?
- How do you do a Head to Toe Assessment?
- How do you treat common disaster injuries?
Key Words
- First aid - immediate, temporary care given to an ill or injured person until professional medical care can be provided
- Universal precautions - steps taken to prevent the spread of disease, when providing first aid
- Good Samaritan law - protects rescuers from being sued for giving emergency care
- Abrasion - scrapes
- Laceration - cuts cause by a sharp object, slicing through layers of skin
- Puncture - a small but deep hole caused by a sharp and narrow object
- Chain of survival - sequence of actions that maximize the victim's chances of survival
- CPR - procedures that combine rescue breathing and chest compressions
- Defibrillator - device that delivers an electric shock to the heart to restore its normal rhythm (cardiopulmonary resuscitation)
- AED - automated external defibrillator
- Shock - a condition in which the heart is not delivering an adequate supply of blood to the body
- Triage - the process of determining the priority of patients' treatments based on the severity of their condition
Key Words Review
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