What is...(Geriatric) failing body systems, chronic illness, poor diet, lack of exercise. (Pediatric) small muscle mass, large skin surface with little fat
100
The condition of the skin in heat exhaustion (describe)?
What is moist, pale and normal/cool to touch (diaphoretic)
100
Always assume this in a water related injury
What is spinal injury
100
Percent of the population will have an allergic reaction to a bite or sting?
5%
100
The body's initial response to keep warm?
shivering
200
What are 3 signs/symptoms of hypothermia?
What is shivering, numbness, stiff posture, drowsiness, rapid HR, rapid RR, loss of motor control, decreased LOC, cool skin temp, skin red them pale then cyanotic
200
Patient stops sweating
What is the main sign that a patient has crossed from heat exhaustion to heat stoke? (hint....skin condition)
200
Name one factor in primary prevention against drownings?
Barriers, fences, constant supervision
200
percent of spiders are poisonous?
What is 100%
200
What do you never place on a bite? Why?
What is an ice pack...increase tissue death by keeping toxins in area
300
List 3 reasons you can rewarm frostbite
1) If transport extremely delayed. 2) Medical direction orders it done.
3) Protocol allows it.
300
The first intervention (airway is stable) in a heat emergency?
What is to remove patient from heat source
300
What consideration is taken when transporting an injured SCUBA diver to the proper facility? (relates to the facility!)
Hyperbaric chamber availability
300
True/False: The best way to rewarm a body part is to massage it
What is FALSE
300
What you check when applying a constricting band on a snakebite victim? Be specific!
Pulses distal to bite site
400
The mechanism causing hypothermia in a patient who was found drunk on the ground in a parking lot with the temperature outside of 40 degrees F?
What is conduction (transfer of heat from one source to another)
400
The location of placement of ice packs to cool a patient in a heat emergency?
What is armpits, groin, and neck
400
The location of placement of ice packs to cool a patient in a heat emergency?
Small flat-bottomed aluminum boat
400
The only poisonous snake in the U.S. that is NOT a pit viper AND what type of venom does it have?
What is a coral snake=neurotoxin
400
A symptom of decompression sickness that causes deep pain in muscles and joints
What is "the bends" and describe what it causes?
500
Active: application of external heat source to rewarm the body.
Passive: covering a hypothermic pt with blanket or taking similar steps to allow the body to rewarm itself.
What is the difference between active and passive rewarming?