Environmental
This illness is characterized by irrational behavior, extreme tachycardia, hypotension, hot, dry skin, and confusion.
What is Heat Stroke?
A standardized management concept specifically designed to allow its users to adopt an integrated organizational structure equal to the complexity and demands of single or multiple incidents.
What is the Incident Command System?
Starts with regular contractions and ends when cervix fully dilated.
What is the first stage of labor?
It's the score used to assess a baby after birth.
What is the APGAR score?
It's one danger of prolapsed cord.
What is Oxygen supply to the baby may be totally interrupted?
This is the pathophysiological event that ultimately leads to hypoxia, hypoxemia, acidosis, and dysrhythmia in drowning.
What is Laryngospasm?
It is where it is best to park at a scene where there may be hazardous materials.
What is uphill/upwind?
It's how long the placenta normally takes to deliver.
What is 10-20 minutes?
It's the most common tasks you need to do to improve a baby who is not initially doing well.
What is dry, warm, position, suction, stimulate, oxygen?
It's when the shoulder's get hung up in the birth canal.
What is shoulder dystocia?
Waxy, pale skin, cold to the touch
What is Frostbite?
The area required for a helicopter landing zone.
What is 100’ x 100’ area?
When you see the baby's head at the cervical opening.
What is crowning?
Presents as buttocks or legs first.
What is breech birth?
It's when the placenta blocks birth canal.
What is Placenta Previa?
This affects how cold the environment seems to a person.
What is Wind Chill?
The proper approach area for a helicopter.
What is front and sides only?
Full dilation of cervix and increased contractions ending with the baby being delivered.
What is the second stage of labor?
When umbilical cord presents first and becomes squeezed between vaginal wall and baby’s head.
What is prolapsed cord?
It's when the placenta prematurely separates from uterine wall.
What is Placenta Abruptio?
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A high-altitude illness that presents with hyperpnea, crackles, rhonchi, tachycardia, and cyanosis is called this.
What is High Altitude Pulmonary Edema
The legal caveat that allows you to do things deemed illegal for other drivers when operating an emergency vehicle.
What is "due regard for public safety"?
It's the first thing you should do once the baby's head is out.
What is suction mouth then nose?
Delivery before 8 months or weight less than 5 lb at birth.
What is a premature baby?
It is caused by Pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH).
What is Pre-Eclampsia?