Signs & Symptoms
Symptoms include increased respiratory rate, wheezing, dyspnea, cough, and chest tightness after exercising.
What is an asthma attack?
Procedure done to prevent the spread of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa before and after patient care.
What is hand hygiene?
Best place to find a patient's pulse during an emergency.
What is the carotid artery?
Can administer unlimited doses of this emergency medication.
What is Narcan?
Setting is Litchfield Correctional Facility for women.
What is Orange is the New Black?
Type of shock caused by blood or fluid loss resulting from trauma, burns, GI bleeding, and severe dehydration.
What is Hypovolemic shock?
Isolation precaution for patients with Influenza.
What is Droplet precautions?
Place patient in this position during a syncopal episode.
What is supine with legs elevated?
Another name for self-administered medications located in a patient's unit.
What are KOPs (keep on person)?
Volunteers go uncover as incarcerated individuals to a county jail.
What is 60 Days In?
Signs include bruising around the eyes "Raccoon eyes" and bruising behind the ears "Battle signs".
What is a basilar skull fracture?
Precaution used on all patients to prevent the spread of infectious diseases.
What are Standard Precautions?
This assessment includes airway, breathing, circulation, and disability/deformity.
What is a primary assessment?
Do not give this emergency medication to an unconscious patient during a hypoglycemic episode.
What is oral glucose gel?
Movie starring a death row inmate that brings a mouse back to life.
What is the Green Mile?
Symptoms include abrupt loss of consciousness, body stiffening and jerking, and loss of bladder control.
What is a tonic-clonic (grand mal) seizure?
Ethyl, methyl, and isopropyl are this type of disinfectant.
What is alcohol?
Heart rhythms that require defibrillation.
What are ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation?
Hold this emergency medication if the patient's systolic BP < 90mmHg.
What is nitroglycerin?
Movie based on a Stephen King novella about a banker convicted of murdering his wife and her lover.
What is The Shawshank Redemption?
Patient is stabbed in the chest and symptoms include sudden onset of pleuritic chest pain, labored breathing, use of accessory muscles, tachycardia, hypotension, and tracheal deviation.
What is a tension pneumothorax?
A contagious disease caused by the itch mite.
What is scabies?
Primary treatment for an anaphylactic emergency.
What is epinephrine/Epi-pen?
Must be counted every shift, documented in a logbook, and wasted in an Rx Destroyer bottle.
What is a Controlled Substance (narcotics)?
Clint Eastwood escapes from an island prison.
What is Escape from Alcatraz?