Bleeding
What do I do?
Head and Shoulders
Knees and Toes
Chest Injuries
What am I?
Potpourri
100

This is what you should do first for a patient who has a laceration that is bleeding.

What is apply direct pressure to the wound?

100

This is the primary treatment priority for a patient who has abdominal trauma.

What is prepare for immediate transport?

100

This is how we treat an eye injury.

What is cover both eyes and transport?

100

This is the name for a break in the continuity of a bone.

What is a fracture?

100

This is what you should do for a patient who is pulseless and apneic with a knife impaled in their back.

What is remove the knife?

100

I am the organ most likely injured if your patient has bruising to the right upper quadrant of the abdomen.

What is the liver?

100

This is how many cervical vertebrae there are.

What is 7?

200

Distention in the abdomen often indicates this.

What is bleeding?

200

This is your treatment priority for a patient with facial trauma and gurgling, as your partner manually holds c-spine.

What is suction the airway?

200

You would most likely see a patient with abnormal variations in their pupil size and reaction with this type of condition.

What is a brain injury?

200

This is the reason for not splinting musculoskeletal injuries before moving a patient.

What is the patient is unstable?

200

You should assume any patient who has cyanosis after a chest injury needs this.

What is ventilation and oxygenation?

200

I am a temporary loss or alteration of part or all of the brain's abilities to function without physical damage to the brain.

What is a cerebral concussion?

200

This is the name of the center of the iris that allows light to moved to the back of the eye.

What is the pupil?

300

I am what you should suspect if you have a patient presenting with weakness, dizziness and melena with no history of recent trauma.

What is gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding?

300

This is what you should do for a patient who appears to have been electrocuted and who is pulseless and apneic. (Assume your scene is safe)

What is initiated CPR and apply an AED?

300

This is the part of the brain that controls coordination and body movement.

What is the cerebellum?

300

Your student has been impaled by the kickstand on his bike.  This is the most appropriate way to treat this patient.

What is unbolt the kickstand and stabilize it with bulky dressings?

300

This is the best treatment for a patient who has paradoxical movement of their chest wall after blunt chest trauma.

What is stabilize the chest wall with a bulky dressing?

300

I am the term for contraction or tensing of abdominal muscles in an effort to ease pain.

What is guarding?

300

This is the reason patient's with third degree or full-thickness burns do not complain of pain in the area of the burn.

What is the nerve endings have been destroyed?

400

This is what you should do for any trauma patient who is semi-conscious with shallow breathing.

What is assist the patient's ventilations?

400

You have a patient who has multiple injuries from a high speed car crash and is unconsciousness.  This is your priority.

What is manually stabilize the c-spine and perform a primary assessment?

400

This is what you would expect to see in a patient with an expanding intracranial hematoma or rapidly progressing brain swelling.

What is an acute deterioration of neurologic signs?

400

These are what attach skeletal muscle to the bone.

What are tendons?

400

This is the term for what develops when air accumulates in the pleural space?

What is a pneumothorax?

400

I am force acting over a distance.

What is work?

400

This is where the phrenic nerve, which controls the diaphragm, exits the spinal cord.

What is C3, C4, and C5?

500

I am the term for coughing up blood.

What is hemoptysis?

500
This is what you should assume if the patient has a penetrating wound to their abdomen, even if their vital signs are stable and there in minimal external bleeding.

What is assume the underlying organ has been injured?

500

Other than severe bleeding, this is the MOST life-threatening complication associated with an open neck injury.

What is an air embolus?

500

This is the term for a disruption of a joint in which the bone ends are no longer in contact.

What is a dislocation?

500

This is the most often cause of immediate death from blunt chest trauma caused by a car crash.

What is traumatic aortic rupture?
500

I am characterized by muffled heart tones, jugular vein distention (JVD) and narrowing pulse pressure.

What is cardiac tamponade?

500

This is the definition of kinetic energy.

What is the energy of a moving object?

600

This is your treatment priority for a patient with an evisceration (other than rapid transport).

What is keep the protruding organs warm and moist?

600

This is what you should do if you have a patient whose arm is covered with a dry chemical.

What is brush away the chemical before flushing with water?
600

These are the two components of the central nervous system (CNS).

What are the brain and spinal cord?

600

This is what you should do if you have applied a dressing and bandage to an arm laceration and the patient then begins complaining of numbness and tingling in their hand.

What is assess distal CMS and adjust the bandage as needed?

600

I am what develops when hollow abdominal organs are damaged and spill their contents.

What is peritonitis?

600

I am the hormone primarily responsible for the actions of the sympathetic nervous system.

What is epinephrine?

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