| A | B |
|---|
| Providing artificial ventilations in a person who has stopped breathing or whose breathing is inaduage | Rescue breathing |
| Manual thrusts to the abdomen used to dislodge an airway obstruction | Heimlich maneuver |
| When breathing and heartbeat stop | Clinical death |
| Pulse felt between the groove of the Adam's apple and the muscles located along the side of the neck | Carotid pulse |
| Requirement that the amount of time you spend compressing the patient's chests should be the same as the time spent for release | 50:50 rule |
| Bulging of the stomach that may be caused by forcing air into the patient's stomach during rescue breathing | Gastric distention |
| When brain cells die | Biological death |
| Short triangular piece of cartilage (tough, elastic gristle) that extends from the bottom of the sternum | Xiphoid process |
| General term for the area of the lower border of the sternum | Substernal notch |
| Maneuver that provides for maximum opening of the airway | Head-tilt, chin-lift maneuver |
| Pulse measured by feeling the major artery of the arm; the absence of this pulse is used as a sign, in infants, that heartbeat has stopped and CPR should begin | Brachial pulse |
| Actions you take to revive a person--or at least temporarily prevent biological death--by keeping the person's heart and lungs working | Cardiopulmonary resuscitation |
| Maneuver used to open the airway of a patient with a suspected spine injury | Jaw-thrust maneuver |
| Red or purple skin discoloration that occurs when gravity causes the blod to sink to the lowest parts of the body and collect there | Line of lividity |
| Lying the patient on his/her side to allow for drainage from the mouth and to prevent the tongue from falling backward | Recovery position |
