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- 4. Acronym for signs & Symptoms, allergies, medications, pertinent medical history, last food or drink, events leading up
- 5. Automatic external defibrillator, delivers electric shock to a heart that is out of rhythm.
- 7. An electric shock that disrupts the electrical activity of the heart long enough to all the heart to spontaneously develop an effective rhythm on its own.
- 8. Irregular or gasping breaths.
- 9. Pain in the chest that comes and goes at different times; caused by a lack of oxygen reaching the heart
- 10. A condition in which the heart has stopped beating or beats too irregularly or weakly to pump blood effectively.
- 11. Number one killer in the United States and is the major cause of disability.
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- 1. Position for an unconscious person to prevent aspiration
- 2. A sudden illness involving the death of heart muscle tissue when it does not receive oxygen-rich blood.
- 3. A condition in which the heart has stopped generating electrical activity.
- 5. Inhalation of blood, vomit, saliva or other foreign material into the lungs.
- 6. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, a skill that is used when a person is in cardiac arrest.