Medical
Trauma
Terminology
Medications
Other
100
Term that describes a patient who has consumed alcohol. The alcohol is usually somehow contributing the reason for the emergency.
What is ETOH positive?
100
Applying pressure to the site of the injury
What is the best way to control bleeding?
100
Medical term for a nose bleed.
What is epistaxis?
100
An effect of a drug that was not the desired effect.
What is a side effect?
100
Legs
When lifting/moving patients, always lift with ...
200
Hypertension
What is the medical diagnosis of a person with high blood pressure?
200
True or False: Applying cold packs to the bridge of the nose is helpful in stopping a nose bleed.
False
200
A device used to stabilize a patients neck.
What is a cervical collar?
200
An analgesic.
What is the category of drug that reduces pain?
300
"Until they are warm and dead."
Finish this phrase... "They're not dead..."
300
Rule of Nines (Rules of Palms)
What is the method of determining what percentage of a patient's body surface has been burned?
300
Activated charcoal, oral glucose, oxygen, epinephrine, albuterol.
What medications can be administered by an EMT-B?
300
True or False: What conducts heat away from the body 25x faster than still air.
True
400
True or False: Slurred speech, disorientation, and one-sided weakness are symptoms of a stroke
True
400
In a plastic bag on top of ice. (This is the procedure for what kind of traumatic injury)
What is the procedure for dealing with a avulsed limb.
400
Praipism.
What is the result of a severe spinal injury that causes an erection in a male patient?
400
A BLS medication used to absorb poisons.
What is activated charcoal?
500
Describe WHY traction splinting relieves pain.
Traction splinting pulls the bones apart so that they are not scraping on top of each other.
500
A medication placed under the tongue and is used to dilate the coronary artery.
What is nitroglycerin?
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