General
The general type of illness a patient is experiencing.
What is Nature of Illness (NOI)?
After determining the # of patients and considering whether you need additional assistance, what is your next step?
What is determine MOI/NOI?
A measure of the disease-causing ability of a microorganism.
What is virulence?
Injuries resulting from physical forces applied to the body.
What are trauma emergencies?
A common virus caused by human herpes viruses 1 and 2, characterized by small blisters whose location depends on the type of virus. Type 2 results in blisters on the genital area, while type 1 results in blisters on nongenital areas.
What is herpes simplex?
TWhen the determination of whether a medical patient is a high-priority or low-priority transport is typically made.
What is after the primary assessment?
An objective finding that can be seen, heard, felt, smelled, or measured (eg, a laceration or the patient’s blood pressure) when assessing a patient to establish illness or injury.
What is a sign?
An outbreak of a disease that occurs on a global scale or over a wide area.
What is pandemic?
Emergencies caused by illnesses or conditions, not by an outside force.
What are medical emergencies?
An airborne bacterial infection that affects primarily children younger than 6 years; patients will be feverish and exhibit a “whoop” sound on inspiration after a coughing attack; highly contagious through droplet infection; also called whooping cough.
What is Pertussis?
Life threats are quickly identified by assessing ______, _______, _______, ________, ________.
What are Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Disability, and Exposure (ABCDE's)?
A subjective finding that the patient feels, but that can be identified only by the patient; for example, what the patient tells a provider during assessment.
What are symptoms?
A medical condition caused by growth and spread of harmful organisms within the body.
What is infectious disease?
A potentially life-threatening viral infection that usually starts with flulike symptoms.
What is severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)?
A virus that has crossed the animal/human barrier and infected humans and that kills thousands of people every year.
What is influenza?
In addition to obtaining a SAMPLE history and asking questions related to the chief complaint, what else should you inquire about when assessing a patient with a potentially infectious disease?
What is recent travel?
Awareness and Concern for potentially serious underlying and unseen injuries/illness.
What is index of suspicion?
A bacterium that can cause infections in different parts of the body and is often resistant to commonly used antibiotics; it is transmitted by different routes, including the respiratory route, and can be found on the skin, in surgical wounds, and in the bloodstream, lungs, and urinary tract.
What is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)?
Highly contagious respiratory infection that can cause a constellation of symptoms that emerge 2 to 14 days after exposure.
a. Fever, chills, cough, shortness of breath, body aches, headache, and a loss of taste and smell are key complaints.
b. May additionally attack heart walls and blood vessel lining
c. Also injure the kidneys.
What is COVID - 19?
An inflammation of the meningeal coverings of the brain and spinal cord; can be highly contagious.
What is meningococcal meningitis?
The pneumonic used in medical emergencies during the focused exam.
What is OPQRST?
In contrast to the assessment of a trauma patient, assessment of a medical patient is focused on _______, ________, and _________.
What are Nature of illness, chief complaint, and symptoms.
An outbreak of a disease in which new cases in a human population substantially exceed the number expected based on recent experience.
What is an epidemic?
The end-stage disease process caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). A person with AIDS is extremely vulnerable to numerous infections.
What is acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)?
A type of virus that is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito in which the majority of infected persons are asymptomatic; transmission can occur from an infected mother to her fetus, and from an infected male to his sexual partners.
What is Zika?