1. Cardiac Vocabulary Living Wills Lesson #5

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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.

6. 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

7. 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.