First Aid & Safety: Medical, Heat/Cold & Cardiac Emergencies, CPR, and AED.
Across
- 3. A blockage or rupture of arteries in the brain.
- 5. Painful muscle spasms due to physical exertion.
- 7. Capable of analyzing the heart rhythm and providing a shock.
- 10. Stoppage of the heartbeat due to electrical malfunction.
- 11. Involves 5 critical links to help improve survival from cardiac arrest.
- 13. Acute spasm of air passages that causes difficulty breathing.
- 17. Abnormally low blood glucose level
- 18. Disease in which the body is unable to use glucose normally because of deficiency or total lack of insulin.
- 19. Chest pain caused by lack of blood to the heart muscle.
- 20. Mnemonic used to assess for a stroke.
Down
- 1. When the body's heat-regulating ability becomes overwhelmed and ceases to function properly.
- 2. Caused by the loss of the body's water and salt through excessive sweating.
- 4. Electrical shock administered by an AED to reestablish a normal heart rhythm.
- 6. Sudden violent muscle rigidity and jerky movements resulting from abnormal stimulation of brain cells.
- 8. Abnormally fast breathing.
- 9. Act of providing rescue breaths and chest compressions for a victim of cardiac arrest
- 12. Abnormally high blood glucose level.
- 14. Condition caused by sever exposure to cold in which the core body temperature drops below 95 degrees.
- 15. Tissue damage caused by extreme cold.
- 16. Death of a part of the heart muscle