Signs/Symptoms & Clinical Terms
Blood Pressure
CPR & AED
Red Flags and Triage
Types of Pain
100
This is something observed by the examiner.

What is a sign?

100

The number of the blood pressure reading recorded when the Korotkoff sound disappears.

What is diastolic pressure?

100

The recommended adult chest-compression rate is this many compressions per minute.

What is 100-120/min?

100

This is considered a normal respiration rate at rest.

What is 12 to 20 bpm?

100

This type of pain is caused by musculoskeletal injuries, is related to movement or position, and is usually relieved when the offending stress is removed.

What is mechanical pain?

200

This is something reported by the patient.

What is a symptom?

200

The artery marker on the cuff should be aligned over this artery.

What is the brachial artery?

200

Adult CPR uses this compression-to-breath ratio?

What is 30:2?
200

When a medical emergency is identified, this plan should be activated.

What is the Emergency Action Plan (EAP)?

200

This type of pain results from biochemical substances released during tissue injury and tends to be constant and not relieved by changing movement or position.

What is chemical pain?

300

This term means the study of the biological causes, effects, and process of disease.

What is pathology?

300

During a manual BP measurement, the first repeated Korotkoff sounds represents this.

What is systolic pressure?

300

Infant compressions should be this deep.

What is 1.5 inches?

300

The color you would triage a patient in a mass event who is motionless, isn't breathing, and doesn't have a pulse.

What is black?

300

This type of pain originated in bones, nerves, muscles, tendons, ligaments, arteries, or joints

What is deep somatic pain?
400

This is the overall picture made up of signs, symptoms, medical history, and physical examination.

What is clinical presentation?

400

A cuff that is too small may cause the blood pressure reading to appear this way.

What is falsely high?

400

After an AED delivers a shock, you should immediately do this.

What is resume chest compressions/CPR?

400
The word used for complete loss of consciousness.

What is syncope?

400

A person who has had an arm or leg amputated continues to experience pain that feels like it is coming from the missing body part. This phenomenon is known as what?

What is phantom limb pain?

500

An AT believes several different conditions could be responsible for an athlete's problem. The list of possibilities is called this.

What is a differential diagnosis?

500

During the palpatory estimate, the radial pulse disappears at 130 mmHg. According to the procedure, approximately what pressure range should you reinflate to for the auscultatory reading?

What is 150-160 mmHg?

500

Two trained rescuers are performing CPR on a child. They should use this compression-to-breath ratio.

What is 15:2?

500

Type of illness that is worse at night, worse with organ function, and doesn't change with movement or posture.

What is systemic illness?

500

A person's response to pain is affected by cultural, social, and personal experiences is called this.

What is perceptual pain?

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