Acronyms
This acronym is used to obtain a patients consciousness level.
Alert
Verbal
Pain
Unresponsive
For an adult, what is the compression-to-breath ratio.
30:2
What system provides shape and support for the body
Skeletal system
This treatment must be used to treat an amputation of an extremity with spurting bright red blood
TQ
The first thing you should do before helping any injured person.
Ensuring the scene is safe and using body substance isolation.
This acronym is used to size up a scene.
Environment, Number of pts, Additional Resources, MOI, Extrication, Spinal Precautions
This is used to shock the heart back to rythym.
Automated External Defibrellator
3 Places to get pulses
Carotid, Femoral, Radial, Brachial
"Help! My bone is sticking out of my leg!"
Open Fracture
FAST
This acronym is used to obtain more information about basic hist of a patient
Signs/Symptoms, Allergies, Medications, Past medical history, last oral intake, events
This vital sign measures how fast the heart beats.
Heart rate
The "BLANK" system controls virtually all the voluntary and involuntary activities in the human body.
The Nervous system
Strokes
A person who is not breathing normally and has no pulse needs this life-sabing procedure immediately.
This is used to obtain a secondary assessment.
Onset, Provocation, Quality, Radiation, Severity, Time
A normal respiratory rate for an adult is approximately this many breathes per minute.
12-20 breaths per minute
What blood vessels carries oxygenated blood through out the body
Arteries
"I get wide spread hives and my throat swells when I get stung by a bee"
Anaphylaxis/ Epi-Pen
If someone is choking and cannot speak or cough, you should do what?
Abdominal Thrusts
These are used to do trauma assessments.
Deformities, Contusions, Abrasion, Penetrations, Burns, Lacerations, Swelling, Tenderness, Instability, Crepitus
Color, Motor, Sensory, Temperature, Pulse
This is a non shockable rhythm which suggest that the patient is clinically deceased
Asystole
Which Lung is larger than the other?
Right is larger than the left
This is the medical word for "Blue pigmented skin."
Cyanosis
This is needed to regulate the bodies blood glucose levels
Insulin