Bleeding Control
What's Bleeding?
Bleeding Emergencies
Signs of Internal Bleeding
Circulatory System Concepts
100
This is the first thing an EMT should do to control bleeding.
What is apply direct pressure?
100
When these vessels bleed, they tend to ooze.
What are capillaries?
100
This is known as severe bleeding.
What is a hemorrhage?
100
D on the DCAP BTLS scale.
What is deformity?
100

This Major Vessel feeds deoxygenated blood back into the heart from the rest of the body

What is the Vena Cava

200
When application of direct pressure fails, the EMT should consider application of this.
What is a tourniquet?
200
Blood coming from this vessel tends to be a darker red in color.
What is a vein?
200
This a word to describe complete blood loss, or bleeding to death.
What is exsanguination?
200
C on the DCAP BTLS scale.
What is contusion?
200
This is the only artery that carries deoxygenated blood.
What is the pulmonary artery?
300
This is an intervention an EMT can perform when a tourniquet will not control bleeding.
What is apply a second tourniquet?
300
When this vessel bleeds, it tends to "squirt."
What is an artery?
300
Significant blood loss typically leads to this type of shock.
What is hypovolemic shock?
300
This sign indicates a person is bleeding into his abdomen.
What is rigidity?
300
Blood transports these proteins that help to fight disease.
What are antibodies and WBCs?
400
This is a commercially available dressing held in place by a tightly wrapped bandage.
What is a pressure bandage?
400
This type of vessel is under low pressure and is less likely to cause complete exsanguination.
What is a vein?
400
If a person is bleeding with tachycardia and normal blood pressure, he is in this condition.
What is compensated shock?
400
Bleeding from this naturally occurring opening in the body may indicate internal bleeding.
What is an orifice?
400

This valve in the heart controls the flow of blood from the right ventricle to the lungs

What is the pulmonary valve

500
This is a substance applied to a dressing or to a wound to stop bleeding.
What is a hemostatic agent?
500
When this blood vessel bleeds, it often spasms in an attempt to stop the bleeding.
What is an artery?
500
When a patient experiences profound blood loss and presents with normal heart rate, hypotension, and altered level of conscious, he is in this state.
What is irreversible shock?
500
This appearance of the stool, which is NOT bright red, can still indicate internal bleeding.
What are dark, tarry appearing stools?
500
This is another blood thinner, aside from aspirin and is prescribed to person's with a history of ischemic stroke.
What is either: Warfarin or Plavix?
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