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How do you treat a pale patient?
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Oxygen, treat for shock, ALS transport
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How do you treat a flushed patient?
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Oxygen, cool if hot, monitor for anaphylaxis
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What is anaphylaxis?
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Hypersensitivity reaction to a previously encountered antigen; results in vasodialation and hypotension
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If both pupils are dilated, what is possible cause?
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Brain injury, drug use, or eye drop use.
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If pupils do not equally react to light, suspect?
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Drug use or inadequate oxygenation of the brain.
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If pupils are unequal, suspect?
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stroke, brain trauma or an artificial eye.
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What is the systolic pressure?
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The higher number; represents pressure when heart beats in the vessell.
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What is diastolic pressure?
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The lower number; represents pressue in vessell when heart relaxes.
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What is hypotention?
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Low blood pressure; Cause: shock
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What is hypertention?
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High blood pressue; Cause: Stroke or drug use
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What does SAMPLE stand for?
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Sign and Symtoms
Allergies Medication Past Pertinant History Last Oral Intake Events Preceding |
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What are the four categories that describe repiration quality?
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Normal, noisy, labored, and shallow
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What is the normal adult heart rate?
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60-100 BPM
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What is the safest and most effective way to lift a heavy object?
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Power lift
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What is Fowler's position?
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Head is elevated to 45-60 degrees; most common for respiratory distress.
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What is Semi-Fowler's position?
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Head is elevated to 30 degrees
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What is tidal volume?
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Amount of air taken into the lungs with a single inspiration and subsequently exhaled.
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What is minute ventilation?
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Refers to the tidal volume of an average breath multiplied by the number of times the individual breaths over 1 minute.
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What are rales?
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Fine crackling sounds
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Normal respirations for infants, children, and adults?
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Infants: 25-50
Children: 15-30 Adults: 12-20 |
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What is epistaxis?
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A nose bleed.
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What is Newton's Law of Motion?
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An object in motion stays in motion and a body at rest will stay at rest until acted on by an outside force.
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What does AVPU stand for?
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Alert, verbal stimuli, painful stimuli, and unresponsive
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What does DCAPBTLS stand for?
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Deformities, Contusion, Abrasions, Punctures, Burns, Tenderness, Lacerations, and Swelling.
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What are the patient responses and scores for eye opening on the Glasgow Coma scale?
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Spontaneously: 4
To Speech: 3 To Pain: 2 None: 1 |
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What are the patient responses and scores for verbal reponse on the Glasgow Coma scale?
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Oriented: 5
Confused: 4 Inappropriate words: 3 Incomprehensible words: 2 None: 1 |
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What are the patient responses and scores for motor response on the Glascow Coma scale?
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Obeys Commands: 6
Localizes Pain: 5 Withdraws to Pain: 4 Flexion to pain: 3 Extention to pain: 2 None: 1 |
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What is JVD, and what does it stand for?
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Jugular vein distention; trachea is moved away from the midline
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What is paradoxical movement?
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Unequal movement of the chest
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What does OPQRST stand for?
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Onset - Activities before the problem began
Provocation - Makes it better or worse Quality - description of the problem Radiation - moves into another area of body Severity - intensity of pain; 1-10 scale Time - how long problem has existed |
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What are the "5 rights" before administering any medication?
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1. Right Patient
2. Right Time 3. Right Drug 4. Right Dose 5. Right route |
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What medications can an EMT-B administer?
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Activated charcoal, oral glucose, and oxygen.
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What is diffusion?
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Movement of gas from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration
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What is hypoxia?
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Lack of oxygen
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What is hyperventalation?
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Breating too quickly
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What is dypsnea?
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The sensation for the patient that they are unable to breathe adequately.
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Dyspneic patients breathe at an abnormally _____ rate.
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High
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