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S/S Name the illness: Three stages/ (stage one): minor respiratory complaints of fever, rhinorrhea, conjunctivitis, (Stage Two): severe cough, hypoxia, vomiting. (Stage Three): residual cough.
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Pertussis (whooping cough)
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Highly contageous/ Sudden onset of mild malaise, fever, skin eruption beginning on trunk and moving to extremities. (name it)
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Chicken pox (vericella)
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scenario: You're dispatched to a medical emergency to the home of a mother with identical twin boy's aged two and four years of age. When you arrive on scene, the mother tells you they were seizing prior to your arriving and you find them both staring with a distant gaze obviously in a postictle state. You begin essessment by asking the obvious SAMPLE history questions. When you ask the mother about the events leading up to the seizure, the mother states that her son and daughter were sharing a large salad just before they both started seizing. What type of salad where the twins MOST LIKELY eating before they began seizing?"
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A SEIZURE SALAD you idiot.
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You arrive on scene and find a 2 month old infant warm to the touch, respirations of 8 per minute, HR of 45 and cyanotic. Name the protocol and procedure:
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Symptomatic Bradycardic - Ventilate for 60 seconds with 100 percent O2 - If the pulse rate is still < 60, begin CPR and administer 0.01 mg/kg Epinephrine 1:10,000 IV/IO and 0.02 mg/kg Atropine (minimum dose of 0.1 mg). May repeat once to a maximum dose of 1 mg.
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