Chain of Survival Flashcard 2

C. Rationale: A big problem in the out-of-hospital setting is that CPR is less likely to be given when cardiac arrest happens within the household. To resolve this problem, the AHA recommends dispatchers be trained to provide callers with instructions to detect cardiac arrest and provide compression-only CPR when necessary.

A. Rationale: Social media plays a communicative role in the adult chain of survival in the OHCA setting. Social media can embed messaging services as a gateway to reaching dispatchers and volunteer lay responders. This covers the gaps seen in bystander-initiated CPR. Social media has the ability to call the nearest trained volunteer to the site of cardiac arrest in the pre-hospital setting.

B. Rationale: The Acute Life-Threatening Events Recognition and Treatment program teaches early recognition of and rapid intervention for pre-arrest patients. Personnel are also trained to prevent further deterioration of critically ill patients as indicated after the initial interventions.

B. Rationale: Public-safety answering points have dispatchers that send EMS to aid people in emergency situations. Rescuers must be aware of when to call the PSAP’s (such as 9-1-1) for the immediate care and transfer of patients to a suitable hospital.

C. Rationale: The recovery link is done pre-discharge to assess rehabilitation needs for the patient and family. This assessment includes cardiovascular, neurologic, stress, return to work, and family and patient fatigue factors.

A. Rationale: Immediate chest compressions and early defibrillation is key to successful resuscitation. Local leaders must put efforts into training community members to provide bystander CPR. The key to success is increasing the number of trained individuals capable of providing resuscitation for OHCA patients.

C. Rationale: Studies show that most cardiac arrest patients do not receive high-quality CPR. Therefore, the survival rate of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in 2020 was only 10.4%, and the survival rate of in-hospital cardiac arrest was 25.8%. (Course Overview)

A. Rationale: Early defibrillation in the pre-hospital setting by trained or untrained responders is critical to providing out-of-hospital care. This is symbolized by the heart icon.

C. Rationale: Common elements associated with high survival rates include (1) training knowledgeable healthcare providers, (2) planned and practiced response, (3) rapid recognition of sudden cardiac arrest, (4) prompt provision of CPR, (5) defibrillation as early as possible within 3 to 5 minutes of collapse, and (6) organized post-cardiac arrest care.

A. Rationale: When a lay untrained rescuer makes a call to a public-safety answering point in the setting of a potential witnessed cardiac arrest, that initiates the EMS response and activates the BLS chain of survival.