Cold Emergencies Category Name
This is the most serious local cold injury because the tissues are actually frozen.
What is frostbite?
These painful muscle spasms often occur after exertion in the heat.
What are heat cramps?
This reflex can protect cold-water drowning victims by slowing the heart rate.
What is the diving reflex?
This spider has a red hourglass marking and causes painful muscle spasms.
What is a black widow spider?
This type of heat transfer occurs when wind moves across the body.
What is convection?
A patient with this condition may have red, pale, or cyanotic skin and be shivering but alert.
What is mild hypothermia?
This condition is the most serious heat illness and can be fatal without rapid cooling.
What is heatstroke?
In drowning victims, why is it important to begin ventilations as early as possible?
What is to overcome laryngospasm and prevent aspiration?
This type of snake bite presents with two puncture wounds, swelling, and discoloration.
What is a pit viper bite?
This marine creature can cause extremely painful stings, requiring tentacle removal.
What is a jellyfish (coelenterate)?
Name two passive rewarming methods used in the field.
What are removing wet clothing and covering with warm blankets?
Patients experiencing heat exhaustion will typically have what skin signs?
What are cool, clammy, pale or ashen skin?
This type of diving emergency presents immediately upon surfacing and may involve pink, frothy sputum.
What is an air embolism?
The bite of this small, colorful snake causes progressive paralysis but may not be painful.
What is a coral snake?
What is the first thing to do when treating a patient with immersion foot?
What is remove wet shoes/socks and begin gradual warming?
You should never do this to frostbitten tissues, even if you’re trying to warm them.
What is massage or rub them?
One key difference between heat exhaustion and heatstroke is the presence or absence of this symptom.
What is sweating?
What is the first action you should take when trying to rescue someone in water?
What is "reach" – attempt a shore-based rescue?
What common item can be used to remove a bee stinger?
What is a credit card?
In which U.S. region is the Centruroides scorpion—dangerous to humans—commonly found?
What is the southwestern United States?
At what core temperature does shivering typically stop and the patient becomes lethargic?
What is below 93.2°F (moderate hypothermia)?
This cooling method involves wet towels and fans and is used in the management of heatstroke.
What is active cooling?
When multiple patients are struck by lightning, this unusual triage method is used.
What is reverse triage?
This tick-borne disease presents with a "bull’s-eye" rash and flu-like symptoms.
What is Lyme disease?
A patient at high altitude has a throbbing headache, ataxia, vomiting, and altered LOC. What life-threatening condition is this?
What is High Altitude Cerebral Edema (HACE)?