Heart Smart
This organ pumps blood throughout your body.
What is the heart?
This healthcare provider responds to emergencies before patients reach the hospital.
Who is a paramedic?
Adults usually have this many permanent teeth.
What is 32?
Nurses use this tool to listen to your heart and lungs.
What is a stethoscope?
This is the first thing you should do before helping someone who is bleeding.
What is make sure the scene is safe?
This machine records the electrical activity of the heart.
What is an ECG/EKG?
The first thing EMS checks when arriving at a scene is this.
What is scene safety?
This material is often used to make impressions of teeth.
What is dental impression material (alginate)?
Before touching any patient, this is the most important thing a nurse should do to help prevent the spread of germs.
What is wash your hands
__________ is the first method used to stop severe bleeding.
What is applying pressure?
Cardiac ultrasound is also called this.
What is an echocardiogram?
This emergency number should only be used for life-threatening emergencies.
What is 911?
What does a dental hygienist primarily do?
What is clean teeth and educate patients?
A nurse checks these five basic measurements, often called "vital signs." What are they?
What is blood pressure, heart rate (pulse), respiratory rate, oxygen saturation and temperature?
True or False:
A tourniquet should be loose enough to allow a little bleeding.
What is False?
How many chambers does the heart have?
What are four?
Paramedics can perform this lifesaving treatment when someone's heart stops.
What is CPR?
Name one reason dentists make impressions.
What are braces, crowns, retainers, dentures, mouth guards?
Nurses don't just care for patients, they also educate them about staying healthy, taking medications correctly, and preventing illness. This type of care is called __________.
What is patient education?
Where should a tourniquet be placed?
What is 2-3 inches above the wound (not over a joint)?
Blood enters this side of the heart first after returning from the body.
What is the right side (right atrium)?
Name two things' paramedics can do that EMTs typically cannot.
What are administer medications, start IVs, advanced airway management, interpret ECGs?
True or False:
Every person has the exact same tooth pattern.
What is False?
You enter a patient's room and notice they are having trouble breathing. Before doing anything else, what should your first priority be?
What is to assess the patient
After placing a tourniquet, should you check for a pulse?
What is .. Yes?