airway and breathing
These include respiratory depression, pinpoint pupils, and unconsciousness.
Opioid overdose
These are the three stages of labor.
👉 What are dilation, expulsion, and placental delivery?
This is your number one priority on any call.
👉 What is scene safety (yourself)?
This severe allergic reaction causes hives, swelling, and airway compromise.
👉 What is anaphylaxis?
This is the best initial treatment for a scalp wound.
👉 What is direct pressure?
This describes difficulty breathing.
Think bad breathing
What is dyspnea
This is the normal pediatric respiratory rate range.
Depends on age
12+: 12-20
younder children is typically up to 60 lowest 20
This document is considered a legal record in court.
👉 What is a patient care report (PCR)?
This is inflammation of the abdomen often due to infection or rupture.
👉 What is peritonitis?
This type of shock results in loss of sympathetic tone.
👉 What is neurogenic shock?
These abnormal lung sounds include wheezing, crackles, and stridor.
👉 What are adventitious lung sounds?
This is the target SpO₂ for a newborn at 2 minutes.
👉 What is 90–95%?
These are the four elements required to prove negligence.
👉 What are duty, breach, causation, and damages?
These include headache, confusion, and respiratory distress from toxins.
👉 What is cyanide poisoning?
This bone can hold up to 1–2 liters of blood when fractured.
👉 What is the femur?
These stages progress from distress to failure to arrest.
👉 What are stages of respiratory compromise?
Daily Double
These signs indicate imminent delivery.
What is a sign of breech
👉 What is crowning and urge to push?
Anything but the head
During an MCI, this replaces full assessments.
👉 What is rapid triage?
These include flank pain and blood in urine.
👉 What are signs of kidney stones or kidney pain?
These are signs of compensated vs decompensated shock in pediatrics.
👉 What is increased HR vs hypotension/AMS?
This type of breathing is deep and rapid, commonly seen in DKA.
👉 What is Kussmaul respirations?
This should be considered after a stressful pediatric call.
👉 What is CISD (critical incident stress debriefing)?
This is the most common major issue in EMS disaster response.
👉 What is communication failure?
how do you ventilate a stoma
Pedi ambu bag
This condition causes sudden chest pain and shortness of breath from lung collapse.
👉 What is spontaneous pneumothorax?