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airway the passage in the body that pushes air in and out of the lungs cardiac having to do with the heart cardio-pulmonary resuscitation known as CPR, this is a technique for keeping a person’s heart and lungs working until help can arrive defibrillator a machine that uses electricity to restore proper rhythm to a heart diabetes a disease that affects how a body absorbs and uses glucose (sugar). It can lead to other health problems with circulation and nerves. extrication the process of carrying a patient from the field into the ambulance labor this word means “work,” but in this case, it also means the process a female body goes through to give birth lethal able to cause death psychologist a doctor who helps people with mental health issues sedated provided medicine to make a person sleep stabilized in the medical world, this means that a patient’s symptoms have been controlled or slowed enough for them to be taken safely to a hospital trauma any physical injury to the body, usually involving bleeding Series Glossary of Key Terms

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