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Trauma
Respiratory System
Shock
Chest & Abdomen
100
What BSI stands for.
What is body substance isolation?
100
Bright red, spurting blood.
What is arterial bleeding?
100
Also called dying respirations, they are sporadic, irregular breaths usually seen just before respiratory arrest.
What are agonal respirations?
100
Cold and clammy skin, altered mental status, nausea and vomiting, restlessness, etc.
What are the signs and symptoms of compensated shock?
100
Where the spleen is located.
What is the left upper quadrant?
200
What the crew should be looking for while en route and arriving at a scene.
What is scene safety?
200
The immobilization of an injury from the joint below to the joint above.
What is splinting?
200
The sound produced when there is edema or spasms of the lower airway.
What is wheezing?
200
The last vital sign to change in response to shock.
What is blood pressure?
200
The condition of having insufficient oxygen (can cause chest pain).
What is ischemia?
300
Indicators of traumatic injury.
What are mechanisms of injury?
300
Used to treat a suspected femur fracture.
What is the Kendrick Traction Device?
300
The mask that delivers close to 100% oxygen.
What is a non-rebreather mask?
300
Shock due to low volume of blood.
What are hypovolemic shock?
300
Condition where a segment of chest wall may be detached from the rest of the thoracic cage.
What is flail chest?
400
An important consideration if injury is suspected.
What is c-spine immobilization?
400
Two categories of traumatic injuries.
What are blunt and penetrating?
400
May be used when an oropharyngeal airway causes a gag reflex.
What is a nasopharygeal airway?
400
A balance of all systems of the body.
What is homeostasis?
400
An open abdominal wound from which internal organs or fat protrude.
What is an evisceration?
500
A 360 degree safety check that should be performed on every vehicle crash.
What are inner and outer circles?
500
This is considered a significant fall.
What is a fall from more than 15 feet or 3x the patient's height?
500
The accumulation of fluid in the space between the alveoli and the pulmonary capillaries.
What is pulmonary edema?
500
Treatments an EMT-B can provide for shock.
What is high-flow oxygen, keep the patient warm and place them in Trendelenberg position.
500
When the wall of the aorta develops weak areas that swell.
What is an aneurysm?
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