Cardiac Vocabulary Living Wills Lesson #5

Vocabulary Triage: SORTING OF ACCIDENT VICTIMS ACCORDING TO THE SEVERITY OF THE INJURIES OR ILLNESS. –ALL LIFE- THREATENING EMERGENCIES ARE CARED FOR FIRST.

Vocabulary Cardiac Arrest: WHEN THE HEART STOPS BEATING. What emergency procedure would you use to provide first aid?______________________ Vital Signs: SIGNS YOU CAN OBSERVE TO TELL IF SOMEONE IS SICK OR INJURED EXAMPLES: –perspiration-pupils –pulse-blood pressure –breathing-skin color

Advance Directive Instructions that describe a person’s wishes about medical treatment Most commonly conversations with relatives, friends, or physicians. Made when a person is still capable of making decisions

Types of Advance Directives  Living Will  Living Will: a document instructing physicians, relatives, or others to refrain from the use of extraordinary measures, as life- support equipment, to prolong one's life in the event of a terminal illness.

Types of Advance Directives  Power of Attorney  Power of Attorney: This document will authorize someone else to make medical decisions for that person in any situation in which the person could no longer make decisions for him or herself

DNR  Do Not Resuscitate: used in hospitals and other health-care facilities to indicate to the staff the decision of a patient's doctors and family, or of the patient by a living will, to avoid extraordinary means of prolonging life.