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A patient with a sprained ankle should use RICE: rest, ice, compression, and this.
What is elevation?
A normal adult resting heart rate is usually about this many beats per minute.
What is 60–100 bpm?
This imaging test is commonly used to check for broken bones.
What is an X-ray?
These chemical messengers help nerve cells communicate.
What are neurotransmitters?
This macronutrient is the body’s preferred quick source of energy.
What are carbohydrates?
A patient has red, hot skin, dizziness, nausea, and heavy sweating after exercising outside in summer.
What is heat exhaustion?
A fever is commonly considered a temperature at or above this Fahrenheit value.
What is 100.4°F?
This imaging test uses sound waves and is commonly used during pregnancy.
What is an ultrasound?
This neurotransmitter is strongly associated with reward, motivation, and movement.
What is dopamine?
This organ releases insulin to help regulate blood sugar.
What is the pancreas?
A patient has sudden severe abdominal pain in the lower right side, nausea, and fever.
What is appendicitis?
Blood pressure is written as two numbers. The top number is called this.
What is systolic pressure?
This imaging scan takes many X-ray images to create cross-sectional views of the body.
What is a CT scan?
This part of the nervous system controls automatic functions like heart rate, digestion, and breathing.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
This molecule is often called the “energy currency” of the cell.
What is ATP?
A patient arrives with one-sided leg swelling, warmth, redness, and calf pain after sitting on a long flight. Doctors worry about a blood clot forming in a deep vein.
What is deep vein thrombosis / DVT?
A pulse oximeter reading below this percentage is often considered low and may require medical attention.
What is below 90%?
This imaging test uses magnets and radio waves and is often used for soft tissue, brain, and spinal cord imaging.
What is an MRI?
This brain structure plays a major role in memory formation.
What is the hippocampus?
This condition occurs when the body cannot make enough insulin or cannot use insulin properly.
What is diabetes?
This is the medical term for fainting.
What is syncope?
If a patient’s heart beats 18 times in 15 seconds, their heart rate is this many beats per minute.
What is 72 bpm?
This imaging test uses a radioactive tracer to show areas of high metabolic activity, often in cancer evaluation.
What is a PET scan?
This protective barrier helps control what substances can pass from the bloodstream into the brain.
What is the blood-brain barrier?
This process breaks glucose down to make ATP and begins in the cytoplasm.
What is glycolysis?