Respiratory Emergencies
What is the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide?
A MI can lead to this form of shock.
What is cardiogenic shock?
The three major parts of the brain and their functions.
What is cerebrum=cognitive function, cerebellum=balance and body movement, brainstem=vital functions?
All the PPE that should be used when treating a patient with TB.
What is gown, N95 mask, goggles, gloves?
What is hemophilia is a clotting disorder, body's decreased ability to form a clot after injury --> thrombophilia is a disorder in which the body's ability to maintain constant blood flow is impaired by the increased formation of clots and blockages?
A pulse oximeter measures this in your body to obtain a SpO2.
What is the amount of hemoglobin saturated with oxygen?
The definition of angina pectoris.
What is the supply of oxygen to the myocardium does not meet the demand?
The 5 sections of the vertebral column and how many vertebrae lie within each.
What is cervical 7, thoracic 12, lumbar 5, sacrum 5, coccyx 4?
Define infectious disease.
What is a medical condition caused by the growth and spread of harmful organisms in the body?
Define Diabetes Mellitus.
What is a disease that impairs the body's ability to use glucose of fuel (disorder of glucose metabolism) impaired insulin production, not enough function receptors on cell for insulin to bind to?
The breath sound heard during acute asthma attack. The breath sound heard in a most asthma attacks.
What is stridor? What is wheezing?
The 3 signs and symptoms of Becks Triad, which indicates.
What is muffled heart sounds, narrowing pulse pressure, and JVD. They indicate cardiac tamponade.
Name 3 conditions that mimic strokes.
The definition of virulent.
The kidneys regulate blood pressure by
What is the removal of NaCl through urination?
What is emphysema?
What is the SA node to the AV node?
The definition of generalized seizure and a explanation of what happens to the body.
What is a surge of abnormal electrical discharges in the brain, causing a tonic-clonic reaction which is the tightening of muscle followed by muscle spasms?
What is the inflammation of the liver and can lead to cirrhosis (scaring), liver cancer, liver failure?
Signs and symptoms of hypoglycemia compared to hyperglycemia.
What is Hyper: altered mental status, drowsiness, lethargy, severe dehydration, thirst, dark urine, Visual or sensory deficits, partial paralysis or muscle weakness, seizures. Hypo: normal to shallow or rapid respirations, pale, moist skin, diaphoresis, dizziness, headache, rapid pulse, normal to low blood pressure, rapid change in mental status, weakness on one side of the body, seizures, anxiousness
What is when increased levels of CO2 in the CSF decreases pH, making the body more acidic. To rid the body of excess CO2, the body will breath deeper and faster.
The equation of cardiac out put, what each value means and how your body compensates for a decrease in blood to the heart.
What is CO=SVxHR SV= amount of blood pumped through the heart in one beat, HR= amount of heart beats in 1 minute, CO=amount of blood pumped through your heart in 1 minute. If stroke volume goes down, heart rate will increase.
Two types of strokes, how they differ, and the type of neurovascular emergencies that imitates a stroke.
3 factors that increase the chance of contracting MRSA. (Bonus 100pts: What does MRSA stand for)
The difference between the visceral peritoneum and parietal peritoneum, and what would cause peritonitis.
What is the parietal peritoneum lines the walls of the abdomen, visceral peritoneum lines the abdominal organs. An abdominal organ leaks contents into cavity and irritates peritoneum, causing peritonitis.