The Die-Beetus
Normal range for a blood glucose.
What is 80-120 mg/dL?
Bonus: What indicates the need for administration of oral glucose?
Term for hallucinations causing a patient to believe they have been given instructions or orders to complete a specific action.
What are command hallucinations?
Bonus: Name 3 other types of hallucinations.
Primary complication due to failure of the renal system.
What is difficulty regulating electrolytes?
Bonus: What two electrolytes are most difficult to regulate for dialysis patients?
First stage of hyperthermia.
What is heat cramps?
Immediate intervention for a patient who was submerged in ice and is now pulseless and apneic.
What is to start CPR?
Common comorbid condition for a patient with sickle cell disease.
Substance abuse disorder
Bonus: What type of substances are commonly abused by this population?
Most common reasons a patient with Type I diabetes experiences hypoglycemia (name 3)
What is insulin dose too high, taking insulin and failing to eat, or increasing activity significantly.
Bonus: What is the memory term to differentiate symptoms of hypo and hyperglycemia?
A condition characterized by extreme changes in mood, activity level, and psychotic tendencies.
What is Bipolar I?
Bonus: What types of medications are commonly prescribed for this disorder?
The difference between psychological and physical dependence, including signs and symptoms.
What is where abstaining from the substance in physical dependence results in withdrawal (sweating, seizures, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea) and psychological dependence results in anxiety, preoccupation, irritability?
The term for when someone experiencing severe hypothermia becomes confused and starts to remove protective layers.
What is paradoxical undressing?
Bonus: What famous incident famously reported this occurring?
An automatic survival mechanism that is triggered when cold water hits the face while holding your breath.
What is the mammalian diving response?
Bonus: What is the purpose of this reflex?
Appropriate method for the removal of clothing from a domestic violence or sexual assault patient.
What is to cut away from any stains or holes and transport it with you in a paper bag.
Bonus: What other traumatic events would warrant clothing to be transported in a similar way?
Bonus x 2: Why a paper bag, and not plastic?
What is the purpose of glucagon and insulin in the body?
What is that visceral glucagon initiates release of glycogen from the liver and insulin allows glucose to be taken into cells for use?
Bonus: What type of chemicals are glucagon and insulin?
Definition of a psychiatric or behavioral emergency.
What is a rapid/sudden alteration in normal behavior, mental status, or thought processes without known cause?
Appropriate positioning for a patient who has been bitten on the hand by a poisonous snake.
What is to keep the affected limb below the level of the heart?
Bonus: Why do we do this?
Description of heat loss via convection.
What is the transfer of heat from a warm object to the air/liquid surrounding it?
Bonus: What is an example of this?
Most cause of decompression sickness after diving.
What is when someone returns to the surface of the water too quickly?
BONUS: What is the recommendation to prevent this?
BONUS BONUS: What are the signs and symptoms of decompression sickness?
The term for a severe, life-threatening allergic reaction that occurs upon first exposure to the allergen.
What is an anaphylactoid response?
Bonus: What is the relationship between rate of symptom onset and reaction severity?
Most common patient physical/behavioral description of someone diagnosed with Type I diabetes.
What is a thin, young person reporting poyuria, polydipsia, and polyphagia.
Bonus: What are the two most common types of long acting insulin prescribed in the US?
Type of delusion in which the patient believes a famous person or public figure is in love with them.
What are erotomanic delusions?
Bonus: What famous person was murdered by a fan in 2016 with reported erotomania centered around the victim?
Three most common pathogens responsible for infectious gastritis.
What is E. coli, Campylobacter, and Salmonella?
Bonus: What is the most recent product recalled for bacterial contamination causing disease outbreaks?
Bonus x 2: What was the pathogen that it was recalled for?
Accurate definition of heat stroke.
What is that heat stroke occurs when the body can no longer rid itself of excess heat, causing the core temperature to rise to extreme levels?
Bonus: What signs and symptoms are associated with heat stroke?
Conditions that create the best circumstances for a positive outcome after drowning.
What are short submersion time, cold water, and immediate resuscitation?
BONUS: What is the appropriate way to package a patient submerged in cold wter before transporting?
BONUS BONUS: How does this benefit the patient?
The most common type of kidney stone.
What are calcium stones?
Bonus: What do these look like?
Target Hemoglobin A1C range for a patient with diabetes.
What is less than 7%?
Bonus: What does Hemoglobin A1C indicate?
Bonus Bonus: What is a NORMAL A1C for a patient without DM?
Psychiatric condition diagnosed in children with periods of anger, inappropriate outbursts, and destructive or violent tendencies?
What is Dysruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)?
Bonus: What condition did this new diagnostic term replace?
Reason that oxygenation is the primary treatment focus for a patient with rectal or vaginal bleeding, not hemorrhage control.
What is hemoglobin depletion causing poor oxygen carrying capacity and inability to effectively control internal bleeding?
Bonus: What is the most appropriate treatment for the bleeding?
Water temperature in which death is expected within one hour if the person is not wearing a protective suit.
What is 30 degrees Fahrenheit?
Bonus: How quickly does body temperature drop in water compared to air of the same temperature?
3 ways to prevent drowning incidents.
1. Fencing in pools and open water
2. Always wearing life jackets around open water or pools if unable to swim
3. Educating and avoiding diving into shallow water.
The most common type of contact poisoning.
What is oil from poisonous plants like poison ivy, oak, or sumac?
Bonus: What is the recommended OTC treatment?
Bonus x 2: What type of manufacturing was the oil from these types of plants used for?