Not Breathing Situations - answer✔Hanging, Strangulation, Suffocation, COMPLETE
Obstruction, etc.
Ineffective Breathing phrases - answer✔"Barely breathing", "Can't breath at all", "Gasping",
"Turning purple", etc.
Obvious extreme respiratory distress (1st party) - answer✔A 1st party caller exhibiting signs
including, but not limited to, fighting for each breath, using single words or syllable to express
her/himself, expressing extreme desperation, or thoughts of impending death.
Agonal Breathing - answer✔An ineffective, deteriorating breathing pattern that lingers after the
heart has essentially stopped pumping blood to the brain.
Uncertain Breathing - answer✔A situation where a 2nd party caller is uncertain, unsure,
indefinite, or ambiguous when asked if an unconscious patient is breathing.
MEDICAL - answer✔A sudden, unexplained collapse resulting in unconsciousness, even when
reported as ground-level fall, should be considered _________________ cardiac arrest until
proven otherwise.
TRAUMATIC - answer✔When cardiac arrest appears to be ____________ in nature, choose
the Chief Complaint Protocol that best fits scene safety concerns and the mechanism or injury.
Mechanism of injury - answer✔If the complaint description suggests TRAUMA, choose the
Chief Complaint Protocol that best addresses the _________________.
foremost symptom - answer✔If the complaint description appears to be MEDICAL in nature,
choose the Chief Complaint Protocol that best fits the patient's ________________ , with
consideration given to priority symptoms.
Protocol 6 - answer✔When the complaint description is breathing-related tracheostomy
problems in the conscious patient, go to ____________.
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