9th Grade – Personal Fitness Definitions Quiz Cpr vocabulary 9th Grade – Personal Fitness

#1 The passage of air into and out of the lungs to supply the body with oxygen.

#2 is the act of applying pressure to someone's chest in order to help blood flow through the heart in an emergency situation.

#3 The nation's oldest, largest voluntary organization devoted to fighting cardiovascular diseases and stroke.

#4 An emergency procedure for manually preserving brain function until further measures to restore spontaneous blood circulation and breathing in a person who is in cardiac arrest.

#5 A portable device that checks the heart rhythm. If needed, it can send an electric shock to the heart to try to restore a normal rhythm.

#6 Awake and able to understand what is happening around you.

#7 The passage by which air enters and leaves the lungs.

#8 A serious injury or shock to the body, as from violence or an accident.

#9 A first-aid procedure for dislodging an obstruction from a person's windpipe in which a sudden strong pressure is applied on the abdomen, between the navel and the rib cage.

#10 The sudden, unexpected loss of heart function, breathing and consciousness.