CARDIO
It is the pressure felt when obtaining a palpated blood pressure
What is systolic pressure?
The contraindicated way of providing oxygen for a conscious, responsive patient
What is a BVM?
A state at which the patient is responsive but a pulse cannot be felt due to a severely depressed blood pressure
What is decompensated shock
The medication used to treat angina, or chest pain
What is nitroglycerin?
The organ that filters blood
What is the liver?
The ratio of compressions to breaths for 2-rescuer CPR of infants and children
What is 15:2?
The body part at which you’d find subcutaneous emphysema
What is the chest/neck?
It is the first thing addressed after determining patient responsiveness when a patient is breathing adequately but has a severe arterial bleed
What is bleeding control/ circulation?
The medication used to prevent the aggregation of platelets and treat AMI
What is aspirin?
The location at which the posterior tibial pulse is palpated
What is the medial side of the ankle?
The most reliable means of obtaining a blood pressure
What is a manual blood pressure?
The backup system for the body to breathe common in COPD patients
What is hypoxic drive?
The first thing assessed and treated for an unresponsive patient in respiratory depression due to an opioid overdose
What is the airway/breathing and providing oxygen?
The medication route used when IV is unobtainable?
What is IO/ intraosseous?
The age at which the posterior fontanelle fuses
What is 3 months?
It is the most likely cause of death if a patient suddenly dies with AMI
What is VFib?
The preferred INITIAL way to give ventilations for a single EMT managing an apneic patient
What is mouth to mask with a one way valve?
The type of secondary assessment we do in the back of the ambulance for a conscious patient with a “not so critical” medical emergency
What is a focused secondary of the affected area?
The way one should provide oral glucose for an unresponsive patient
What is between the cheek and gums?
The name of the area between the lungs and heart that contains structures such as the heart, great vessels, esophagus, and trachea
What is the mediastinum?
It is the electrical node of the heart that pauses so that the ventricles can fill with blood
What is the AV node?
The monitoring of exhaled CO2 of a patient
What is capnography?
A bacterial condition that is resistant to antibiotics
What is MRSA?
The medical condition treated with alupent
What is asthma?
The thing that keeps alveoli expanded and makes it easier to perform gas exchange
What is surfactant?