Medical/Anatomy
Shock caused by an allergic reaction.
What is anaphylactic shock?
The last vital sign to change in response to shock.
What is the blood pressure?
The patient medication that will assist with breathing during anaphylactic shock.
What is epinephrine?
You would use an occlusive bandage and you would tape 3 sides.
What is a sucking chest wound?
Definitive care within 1 hour of the injury.
What is the golden hour?
Another name for grand mal seizure.
What is Tonic-Clonic seizure?
Do not replace organ(s), apply an occlusive dressing and bulky trauma dressings.
What is an evisceration?
A hormone that stimulates cells in the liver to break down stores of glycogen into glucose.
What is Glucagon?
Alternate back blows, chest thrusts, and ventilation attempts.
How do you clear an infant’s obstructed airway?
The acronym used to find contusions, punctures, lacerations, etc.
What is DCAPBTLS?
List the organs in the upper left quadrant
What is liver, spleen, pancreas, stomach, left kidney, and colon.
You feel a "popping" as if there were crisped rice cereal trapped beneath the skin.
What is subcutaneous emphysema?
MDI is abbreviated for.
What is Metered Dose Inhaler?
Should be treated by repositioning the airway and reducing the size of ventilations.
What is stomach (gastric) distention?
This respiratory disease is caused by the breakdown of the alveolar wall surface and the lungs loose their elasticity and excessive mucus is secreted in both the alveoli and bronchioles.
What is Emphysema?
The dominant pacemaker of the heart.
What is the SA node?
The organ that can be injured from a sharp blow to the back.
What is the Kidney?
Proventil is the trade name for what drug.
What is Albuterol?
The proper head position when using an oropharyngeal airway.
What is hyperextended?
This is a condition that result from the buildup of fatty deposits on the inner walls of blood vessels.
What is Arteriosclerosis?
Name two central pulses.
Irregular, decreased respirations (caused by impaired brainstem function)
Bradycardia.
Systolic hypertension (widening pulse pressure)
What is Cushing's Triad?
what is racemic epinephrine?
Pain and/or "pulling" felt when the patient's knees are elevated and the head is flexed (chin to chest).
What is Burdzinski's Sign?
This is the time frame in which Thrombolytic therapy must be initiated from the onset of a Cerebral Vascular Accident.
What is 3 hours?