TRIAGE/MCI/HAZMat
The main person in charge of an MCI.
Who is the Incident Commander?
When an egg implants in the fallopian tube.
What is an Ectopic Pregnancy?
DCAP-BTLS stands for this
What is Deformities, Contusions, Abrasions, Penetrations, Burns, Lacerations, and Swelling.
PPV stands for this
What is Positive Pressure Ventilation?
A condition in which the arteries of the heart harden.
What is arteriosclerosis?
The 3 zones in a HAZMAT incident?
What is the Hot, Warm, and Cold zones?
When the placenta implants at the opening of the uterus.
What is Placenta Previa?
A persistent and painful sign resulting from a spinal injury presenting in the pelvis.
What is Priapism?
A medication that EMT's can help with for patients suffering from bronchoconstriction.
This location of the heart is where the blood fills up before it is pushed out to the rest of the body by the contracting muscle.
What is the Left Ventricle?
The 4 elements of the Incident Command System.
What is Operations, Planning, Logistics, and Finance?
When the placenta detaches from the uterus.
What is Abruptio Placenta?
This sign will display itself to an epileptic patient in a smell, taste, or vision.
What is an Aura?
The patient MUST be able to do this in order to receive C-PAP therapy.
What is Follow instructions?
This symptom occurs in CHF patients when the Left and Right side of the heart begin to fail.
What is Pedal Edema?
What is Priority 1/Immediate, Priority 2/Delayed, Priority 3/Walking Wounded, Priority 4/Dead?
When a pregnant female presents with hypertension, edema, AND seizures.
What is Eclampsia?
What SLUDGEM stands for
What is Salivation, Lacrimentation, Urination, Defication, GI upset, Emisis, Miosis?
Emphysema, Chronic Bronchitis, Black Lung are all this type of disease.
What is COPD?
The 4 valves of the heart
What are the Tricuspid, Bicuspid, Pulmonary, and Aortic Valves?
The mnemonic that is used to triage patients in a quick and simple format.
What is RPM: Respirations, Pulse, Mental Status?
When the fetus dies in utero.
What is a spontaneous abortion?
Located in the RLQ
What are the Large Intestine, Small Intestine, Appendix, and in Females, Right Ovaries?
This condition is when a lung has collapsed and patient vitals are within normal limits.
What is a Simple Pneumothorax?
Death of the tissue in the heart (Ischemia)
What is Myocardial Infarction?
START stand for this.
What is Simple Triage And Rapid Treatment?
When the baby gets stuck in the pelvic arch.
What is Shoulder Dystsocia?
The 4 traumatic injuries to the chest.
What are Paradoxical Movement, Flail Segment, Impaled Object, and Sucking Chest Wound?
Children often experience this disease will show respiratory distress, tripod positioning and a barking cough.
What is Croup?
A clot formed of blood and plaque traveling in the artery or vein.
What is a EMBOLI?
A condition in which the airway closes from toxic chemical inhalation.
What is Asphyxia?
Para Gravida means this
Para = # of pregnancies, Gravida = # of live births
A sign that you would see when there is a significant blunt force trauma to the head.
What are Racoon Eyes or Basilar Skull fractures.
Often found in patients with CHF where fluid builds up in the lungs.
What is Pulmonary Edema?
DOUBLE
A type of chest pain that is caused when the coronary arteries spasm, leading to reduced blood flow, usually occuring during sleep and is relieved by medication.
What is Printzmetal Angina.