Oxygenation Situation
Structure where the upper airway becomes the lower airway.
What is the larynx/vocal cords?
Common locations that cardiac pain may be referred to.
What is the jaw, neck, arm, shoulder, or epigastrium?
The term describing a seizure caused by another disease process.
What is a secondary seizure?
Common causes of AMS (list 3).
What is hypoglycemia, head strike, degenerative disorders, hypoxia, overdose, infection (UTI, sepsis)?
The pharmacological action of Nitroglycerin.
What is vasodilation, reducing the workload of the heart?
Condition causing rapid onset shortness of breath despite normal breath sounds.
What is a pulmonary embolism?
Characteristics of stable angina (list 3).
What are exacerbated by activity/stress, resolves with rest or Nitroglycerin, results from partial occlusion of a blood vessel, usually resolves in ten minutes or less
Age range where febrile seizures are most common.
What is between 3 months and 6 years of age?
Common questions to determine a patient's level of consciousness.
What is person, place, time, and event?
A condition common in young females in which there is a decreased RBC and hemoglobin level, impairing oxygen carrying capacity.
What is iron deficiency anemia?
Common physical signs of respiratory distress in pediatric patients.
What is nasal flaring, head bobbing, grunting, use of accessory muscles, and abdominal breathing?
An AED will only recommend shock for these two rhythms.
What is ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation?
A seizure lasting longer than this amount of time (in minutes) requires aggressive management.
What is 5 minutes?
An alternative diagnosis that often mimics stroke-like symptoms
What is hypoglycemia?
True or false: Patients with pneumonia commonly report hemoptysis (coughing up blood) due to the infection.
What is false?
The appropriate oxygen delivery device and flow rate for a patient with a respiratory rate of 8, SPO2 of 88%, and cyanosis around the lips.
What is a BVM at 15lpm?
Common ways patients describe pain associated with an aortic dissection.
What is tearing, sharp, shearing, or ripping pain?
Common complications following a seizure (list 3).
What is self-injury, head strike, loss of bowel or bladder control, and biting one's tongue?
The four components of the Cincinnatti Stroke Scale.
What is facial droop, arm drift, slurred/abnormal speech, and time of last known normal?
Common sign/symptoms of epiglottitis (list 3).
What is drooling, stridor, and high fever?
Also: Sore throat, muffled voice, restlessness
Common causes contributing to a diagnosis of COPD (list 2).
What is smoking, occupational exposure to industrial gases, secondhand smoke, environmental air pollution?
The difference between ischemia and infarction.
What is that ischemia is due to partial occlusion of a blood vessel, but infarction is total occlusion causing permanent tissue damage and dysfunction.
Condition where a patient seizes, becomes postictal, and seizes again before returning to consciousness.
What is status epilepticus?
Three signs/symptoms that are associated with CVA.
What are headache, hypertension, and difficulty speaking?
Also: Facial droop, arm drift, loss of balance, confusion.
Phenobarbital, Clonazepam, Depakote, Keppra, and Dilantin are all medications used to treat these conditions.
What is epilepsy or other seizure disorders?
A condition known as pulsus paradoxus.
What is the finding that while obtaining a manual blood pressure on a patient the needle drops 10mmHg each time the patient inhales?
Symptoms of right-sided heart failure (list 3).
What is pedal edema, JVD, and low to normal systolic BP?
Phases of a generalized seizure (in order).
What is aura, tonic, clonic, and postictal?
The full description of the pneumonic "AEIOU-TIPS".
What is alcohol, epilepsy, insulin, overdose, uremia, trauma, infection, psychoses, and stroke?
A blood pressure medication class known to prevent tachycardia.
What are beta blockers?
Ex: Labetalol, Atenolol, Metoprolol