Don't push
Score you use to assess a newborn
What is APGAR score?
New addition to procedure for a conscious choking adult
What is back blows?
Type of splint for femur fractures
What is a traction splint?
AVPU pneumonic
What is alert, verbal, painful, and unconscious?
Type of diabetic who cannot produce any insulin
What is a Type 1 diabetic?
Name at least 3 categories in the APGAR score
What is appearance, pulse, grimace, activity and respiration?
Name at least 3 signs to suspect an opioid overdose
What is decreased respirations, pinpoint pupils, apneic with a pulse, presence of drug paraphernalia?
When splinting an extremity what you do before and after
What is assess CSMs (circulation, sensation and movement)
Four things to assess for orientation
What is person, place, time and situation?
Name at least three signs of hypoglycemia (low blood sugar)
What is confusion, diaphoresis, shakiness, hungry, confusion?
Name at least three signs of imminent delivery
Grunting, urge to push, crowning
Reason we change AHA guidelines
What is to align with current evidence?
Name at least 4 high mechanisms for suspected spinal injury
What is MVC > 60 MPH, falls greater than 3 feet/5 stairs, axial load to the head/neck, significant injury above the clavicle, accidents involving ATVs, dirt bikes, bicycle accidents, or pedestrian hit by car
Name at least 3 things you would do performing a potentially compromised airway assessment
What is assess for patency (can you talk), open the airway using a head tilt/chin lift, suction the airway if needed, treat foreign body obstruction, consider an oropharyngeal or nasopharyngeal airway, consider advanced airway as appropriate (scope of practice and training)?
3 symptoms of hyperglycemia
What are the 3 p's: polyuria, polydipsia, and polyphagia?
Name three ways to manage postpartum bleeding
Massage fundus, get infant to breastfeed, assess placenta for missing pieces, call for a paramedic, call med control
True or false: mechanical CPR devices are no longer recommended for routine use
What is true?
The reason a suspected pelvic fracture requires stabilization with a bedsheet or commercial device
Limit potential internal hemorrhage
FAST assessment
Face, Arms, Speech, and Time
Name at least three complications of uncontrolled diabetes
What is kidney failure, increased risk of infection, blindness, foot ulcers, and loss of limb ?
Name at least four questions to ask when assessing a laboring mother
What number pregnancies have you had, when are you due, any complications with the pregnancy, last menstrual period or due date, and have you had prenatal care?
The type of compressions no longer recommended for infants
What is two-finger technique?
Definition and care of an open fracture
What is a break in the skin concurrent with a fracture, bone may or may not be exposed, if open fracture suspected, remove obvious debris, cleanse with NS and cover with a moist sterile dressing?
SAMPLE pneumonic for the secondary assessment
What is s/s, allergies, medications, previous medical history, last meal and events leading up to...?
Name at least three signs/symptoms of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)
extreme weakness, Kussmauls's respirations, fruity odor to breath, N/V