Scottys Weird Jokes
A common finding in pneumonia patients that is noted by an increase in body temperature is known as what?
A Fever
Your patient is breathing 24 times per minute and has an approximate tidal volume of 200mL. What is this patients minute ventilation?
4,800 mL
You only bag until you see what?
Chest Rise
Name of the kind of lung sounds you would hear when a patient has cystic fibrosis.
Rhonchi
Why do we paralyze patients prior to performing intubation?
Gag Reflex could cause vomiting and aspiration
Inhalers are generally what class of medications?
Bronchodilators/Beta II Agonists
Albuterol is what kind of agonist?
Beta II
Do Non-Rebreathers work by increasing FiO2 or PEEP?
FiO2
True/False
Curved Laryngoscope blades are designed to lift the epiglottis directly with the tip of the blade.
False
When 2 rescuers are utilizing a BVM, one rescuer squeezes the bag and the other rescuer does what?
Holds the face mask in place
Who has the best eye brows in the class according to literally everyone at the cadaver lab?
Hint: He crushed 225 on Bench yesterday.
Perez
Corner of the mouth to the tip of the ear lobe
In order to use any tipe of SGA, the patient needs to be missing what reflex?
Gag Reflex
What gets washed out in drowning patients?
Surfactant
Do not extend the stylet past where on an ET Tube?
The Murphey Eye
***Daily Double***
Which part of a BVM (ALL PARTS, not just the bag, valve, and mask) is purely for increasing FiO2 and has nothing to do with assisting ventilations?
O2 Reservoir
Pulsus paradoxus means that there is a drop in systolic blood pressure when?
Upon Inhalation
What is "Unilateral Hyper-Resonance"?
Hyper-Resonance on one side of the chest.
Proventil is a trade name for what generic drug?
Albuterol
What makes atroven beneficial in treating a patient who is experiencing an asthma attack WHILE exhibiting signs of ACS as well?
Atrovent does not reach the myocardial tissue.
Describe the problem with fluid in the lungs on the alveolar level.
Decreases the ability of the alveoli to exchange gasses.
Muscular Dystrophy would most like decrease what part of ventilations?
Depth
***Daily Double***
When is the glottic opening the largest?
This common and usually congenital form of COPD causes patients to have decreased peak flow and decreased forced expiratory volume
Asthma
After abdominal thrusts are unsuccessful, what should be performed on an unresponsive choking patient?
CPR/Chest Compressions