Anatomy
The solid organs in your body
What are the ovaries (in women), spleen, liver, pancreas, and kidneys?
Three OTC drugs
What are acetaminophen, ibuprofen, and aspirin?
Naso Pharyngeal Airway (NPA) Placement
(unresponsive patients with gag reflex) What is lubricate the NPA and insert into right nare with bevel facing towards the septum (nose to ear length)?
Cardiogenic shock
What is inadequate function of the heart or pump failure? S/S= edema, tachynpea, rales.
Exposure routes
What are inhalation, injection, ingestion, and skin absorption?
Aorta
What is the main artery leaving the left side of the heart, carrying oxygenated blood to the body?
Treatment for anaphylaxis
What is 0.3 mg for adults, 0.15 for kids, administered IV in shock?
Respiration pattern seen in cases of metabolic acidosis
What is Kussmaul respirations?
Types of distributive shock
What are septic, neurogenic, anaphylactic, psychogenic (SNAP)?
Elements of a primary survey
Verbalizes general impression of the patient, level of consciousness (AVPU), cheif complaint, airway/breathing, circulation and transport decision?
Chamber that the vena cava empty into
What is the right atrium?
Signs of sedative-hypnotic drugs
What are slurred speech, sedation or coma, hypoventilation, and hypotension?
What are Venturi masks, rebreathing masks, partial/non-rebreathers, nasal cannulas, BVM, and CPAP?
Stages of shock
What are compensated, decompensated, and irreversible?
Hepatomegaly definition and causes
What is enlarged liver? Caused by infection, parasites, tumors, anemias, toxicity, heart failure, congenital heart failure and metabolic disturbances?
Functions of the liver
What are assists in digestion, secretes bile and aids in digestion of fats, filters toxic substances. Creates glucose stores. Produces substances that regulate immune response?
Examples of sympathomimetics
What are mephedrone, cocaine, methamphetamine, and epinephrine?
Cheyne-Stokes respirations
What is an abnormal pattern of breathing characterized by periods of apnea followed by deep rapid breathing?
Types of generalized seizures
What is grand mal and tonic clonic? Characterized by severe twitching of all the body's muscles, that may last several minutes or more.
For a DNR order to be valid, it must...
What is clearly state the patient's medical problem?
The spinal column areas
What are cervical (4), thoracic (12), lumbar (5), sacral (5), and coccygeal (4)?
Actions of Asprin in a suspected Miocardial Infarction
What is inhibiting platlet aggregation, reducing inflammation and preventing further clotting?
Infant airway characteristics during CPR
What is that infant's heads are proportionally larger, must use a wedge under the infants shoulders to keep airway open
Status elipticus
What is a condition in which seizures recur every few minutes or last longer than 30 minutes?
How to treat injected poison
What is monitor airway, provide high flow oxygen, remove jewlery or clothes near the injection site, take all containers/bottles and labels with the patient to the hospital?