This is result of injury leading to multiple capillary beds bleeding into the lung parenchyma.
What is a pulmonary contusion?
100
This device would be useful for patients who are showing extreme accessory muscle use.
What is a bag valve mask?
100
This is a disease process causing lower airway obstruction that is characterized by bronchoconstriction, increased mucous production and carbon dioxide retention.
What is asthma?
100
This type of airway obstruction is common in babies and toddlers.
What is a foreign body airway obstruction (FBAO)?
100
This is manifested by unequal chest rise, or when the chest and abdomen are not in synchrony with each other.
What is paradoxical motion/movement?
200
This injury is comprised of two or more ribs fractured in two or more places.
What is a flail chest or flail segment?
200
This is the first intervention and EMT should take on seeing a penetration to the chest.
What is cover it with a gloved hand?
200
This is a disease characterized as one that causes lower airway obstruction due to alveoli that can no longer maintain their spherical shape, leading to poor gas exchange; it's nearly always a result of long term exposure to cigarette smoke.
What is emphysema?
200
This is an umbrella term describing more than one lower airway obstruction disease?
What is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)?
200
This is a sign a person with pneumonia, with pus in his lung will likely have, but a person with a hemothorax, with blood in his lung, will not likely have.
What is a fever?
300
This injury is the result of a penetration to the chest, may have bubbling at the site, and may or may not lead to a collapsed lung.
What is a sucking chest wound?
300
Your patient with dyspnea cannot tolerate laying on his back. In what position should you place him?
What is a position of comfort?
300
This condition is characterized by inflammation to the lining of the lung and the cavity in which the lung sits.
What is pleurisy?
300
This disease may be chronic or acute and is characterized by increased mucous production, bronchoconstriction, and inflamed airways.
What is bronchitis?
300
This sign is unique to cardiac tamponade.
What are muffled heart tones?
400
This injury is characterized by both an abnormal opening in the lung AND the collapse of that lung.
What is a tension pneumothorax?
400
Your patient has a penetration to his posterior at the thoracic vertebrae. This is the type of covering you should apply.
What is an occlusive dressing?
400
This is the result of a clot that has become lodged in the vasculature of the lung.
What is a pulmonary embolism?
400
Any 2 of these 4 substances may cause a lower airway obstruction by increasing the distance that gases must travel.
What are mucous, blood, pus and water?
400
This is the result of increased pressure in the pericardium leading to an elevated diastolic pressure.
What is narrowed pulse pressure?
500
This injury is the collection of blood in the lung and or/chest compromising pulmonary function.
What is a hemothorax?
500
When you tape an occlusive dressing on three sides, this is what you have created, permitting air to escape but not permitting air to enter the wound.
What is a flutter valve?
500
This is the condition of having surfactant washed away by some means.
What is atelectasis?
500
This is the inhalation of vomitus which can wash away surfactant and effectively obstruct gas exchange at the alveoli.
What is aspiration?
500
The combination of hypotension, cyanosis, and diminished or absent lung sounds on one side nearly always indicates the patient is experiencing this.