Vocabulary

3. involves the epidermis and part of the dermis layer of skin.
7. the beat of the heart as felt through your wrist
8. an extreme, often life-threatening allergic reaction to an antigen to which the body has become hypersensitive.
12. a technique in first aid to dislodge a foreign body in a person's windpipe by applying sudden upward pressure on the upper abdomen
14. a smooth, relatively rapid upstroke and a smooth, more gradual downstroke, interrupted only briefly at the pulse peak.
15. help given to a sick or injured person until full medical treatment is available.
18. affects only the outer layer of the skin.

1. a type of first aid that's used if someone has stopped breathing
2. the beat of the heart as felt through the walls of a peripheral artery
4. severe difficulty in breathing because of a constricted or obstructed throat or a lack of air
5. a set of materials and tools used for giving emergency treatment to a sick or injured person.
6. destroy, damage, or injure by heat or fire.
9. a medical procedure involving repeated compression of a patient's chest, performed in an attempt to restore the blood circulation and breathing of a person who has suffered cardiac arrest.
10. a sudden, uncontrolled electrical disturbance in the brain
11. an injury to living tissue caused by a cut, blow, or other impact, typically one in which the skin is cut or broken
13. destroys the outer layer of skin and the entire layer beneath
16. the process of scraping or wearing something away.
17. A device that automatically analyzes the heart rhythm and that if it detects a problem that may respond to an electrical shock delivers a shock to restore a normal heart rhythm