01:377:346 Lecture 1: Basics
3 Aug 2018
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Rescuer must be exposed and come in contact with infected substance through breaks in the skin or mucous membrane. Monitors outbreaks/infection & figuring out a plan of action, controls disease. Determine within employment who may be at risk on the job to blood or bodily fluids. Set up practices and places to protect you. How to handle a spill, report it, etc. Bsi (body substance isolation): all blood and other body substances should be treated as infectious. *myocardial infarction [mi] is another word for heart attack. Sudden cardiac arrest: occurs when the heart develops an abnormal rhythm and can"t pump blood to brain, lungs and other organs abnormal rhythm and can"t pump blood to brain, lungs and other organs. Within seconds, person becomes unresponsive and is not breathing or is only gasping. Chances of survival decrease as time goes by. Death occurs within minutes if the victim does not receive immediate life saving treatment.
