A&P
What is the blood?
A 1 year old child could start showing signs of shock after losing approximately this much blood.
What is 3 to 6 ounces?
Narrowing of a blood vessel.
What is vasoconstriction?
A bruise from an injury that causes bleeding beneath the skin without breaking the skin; also called ecchymosis.
What is a contusion?
A dressing impregnated with a chemical compound that slows or stops bleeding by promoting clot formation.
What is a hemostatic dressing?
Also known as the pump.
What is the heart?
This means bleeding.
What is hemorrhage?
What is a capillary?
The vomiting of blood.
What is hematemesis?
In most cases, this will stop the bleeding.
What is direct pressure?
These carry blood away from the heart.
True or False, the average male contains more blood volume than the average female.
What is True?
This type of bleeding is characteristically bright red and spurts in time with the pulse.
What is arterial bleeding?
What is non-traumatic bleeding?
Also known as the container.
What are the blood vessels?
The body will not tolerate an acute blood loss of greater than this percentage of blood volume.
What is 20%
This type of bleeding is darker than arterial bleeding and flows steadily.
What is venous bleeding?
Black, foul-smelling tarry stool that contains digested blood.
What is melena?
If direst pressure fails to immediately stop a hemorrhage, apply this above the level of the bleeding.
What is a tourniquet?
The largest artery of the body.
What is the aorta?
A condition in which low blood volume results in inadequate perfusion and even death.
What is hypovolemic shock?
This process happens when a clot forms, plugging the hole and sealing the injured portions of the blood vessel.
This is the first sign of hypovolemic shock.
What is altered mental status?
This is a type of splint that may be indicated for a suspected closed unstable pelvic fracture.
What is a pelvic binder?