Molecule that cell cannot use if the patient has been poisoned with cyanide
What is oxygen
100
The number of drugs in a military nerve agent antidote kit
What is three
100
Blister agent (mustard gas, lewisite) treated with BAL
What is lewisite
100
Decontomination for liquid agents
What is remove any visiable agent including saturated clothing then washing with soap and water
200
Region of body that pulmonary agents act on
What is the respiratory tract
200
Type of symptoms seen in cyanide poisoning
What are hypoxia symptoms (nausea, dizziness, weakness, tachycardia, tachypnea, deadache, seizure, coma, cardiac arrest)
200
Effect on body fluids if exposed to nerve agent
What is increased (more spit, snot, tears, diarrhea)
200
Reason that mustard gas is named after mustard
What is yellow in color and smells like mustard
200
Other than lewisite, the two types of chemical agents where antidotes make a difference.
What are cyanide and nerve
300
The state of matter (solid, liquid, gas) that pulmonary agents are.
What is a gas?
300
After starting 100% oxygen the number of drugs that must be given as detoxification
What are 2
300
Effects on respiratory system during nerve agent exposure
What is diaphragm becomes paralyzed and airways spasm/close
300
The timeline to symptoms of most blister agents
What is seconds
300
Multiple soliders are triged in the field. One has burns on his face and a cough. What is his DIME status?
What is immediate
400
Pulmonary edema is caused by injury to the large airways or aveolar-capillary membranes
What is aveolar capillaries
400
One of the 3 labs that suggest cyanide poisoning.
What are a lactic acidosis (anion gap), elevated venous oxygen, and carboxyhemoglobin present
400
The reason that valium is in the Mark 1
What is to stop seizures
400
Mustard gas causes burns like other blister agents, but also affects the bone marrow, so what lab must be checked every 6 hours when a blister agent is suspected
What is CBC
400
An airmen from the 14th presents to the UCC with 6 hours of headache, fatigue, weakness, sore throat, and rhinorhea. What is the most likely diagnosis?
What is a viral upper respiratory infection
500
The number of days that some respiratory symptoms may first appear after exposure to pulmonary agents
What is 3 days
500
The pulse ox reading in a patient who has been poisoned by cyanide
What is normal (93-100%)
500
Nerve agents block acetylcholinesterase which causes a build up of this chemical in the body
What is acetylcholine
500
The three pillars of basic burn care
What are fluids, airway mangement and infection control
500
Types of chemical agents that a gas masks protects you from
What is all of the above (choking, cyanide, nerve, and blister))