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Paying attention to conditions and people around you at all times and the potential risks those conditions or people pose.
What is Situational Awareness?
The circulation of blood within an organ or tissue to provide necessary oxygen and nutrients and to remove waste.
What is perfusion?
"Does anything make the symptoms better or worse? How are you most comfortable?
Provocation/Palliation.
The process of listening to sounds the body makes by using a stethoscope.
What is auscultation?
The process of sorting patients based on the severity of each patient's condition.
What is Triage?
Used to test a patients responsiveness?
What is the AVPU scale?
The signs and symptoms that the patient does not have.
What are pertinent negatives?
Generally performed on patients who have sustained nonsignificant MOIs or on responsive medical patients.
What is a Focused Assessment?
Advanced Life Support
Air Medical Support
Fire Departments
Law Enforcement Personnel
What is included as specialized resources?
Includes neck muscles, the chest pectoralis major muscles, and the abdominal muscles.
What are accessory muscles?
A pain scale that may be helpful in assessing a patients pain, especially in children and patients with a developmental delay.
What is the Wong-Baker scale?
When only one section of the chest rises on inspiration while another area of the chest falls.
What is Paradoxical Motion?
Incident Command System
What is implemented when there are multiple patients?
Sternocleidomastoid
What are neck muscles?
An objective finding that you can detect by observing or examining the patient.
What is a sign?
Eye Opening
Best Verbal Response
Best Motor Response
What is GCS?
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
What is CDC?
When a patients lips, mucous membranes, nail beds, skin over the blood vessels, appear blue or gray.
What is Cyanosis?
A subjective condition that the patient feels and tells you about.
What is a symptom?
A blood pressure cuff with gauge.
What is a sphygmomanometer?