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if the scene is a possible hazmat or had an explosion, you should park your ambulance?
Uphill and Upwind
Painful urination in men and women is common.
Symptoms are more severe in men than women.
Symptoms appear approx. 2 to 10 days after exposure.
Gonorrhea
When these nerves are stimulated, it transmits a message from the body to the central nervous system (brain)
Sensory Nerves
high fever, cough, vomiting, bloody diarrhea, and shortness of breath
MERS-CoV
Thickest layer of tissue of a blood vessel wall, composed of elastic tissue and smooth muscle cells that allow the vessel to expand and contract.
Tunica Media
Ecchymosis (bruising) that develops behind the one ear over the mastoid process?
Battle Signs
Side effects from this medication causes increase heartrate, dry mucous membranes, dilated pupils, blurred vision.
Atropine
These nerves carry information from the brain to the muscles
Motor Nerves
Hallmark signs are stridor and seal-bark cough
Croup
Located in the upper brainstem; responsible for maintenance of consciousness, specifically one's level of arousal
Reticular activating system (RAS)
Fine white powder that causes flu like symptoms, dyspnea, tachycardia, pulmonary edema, and shock.
Anthrax
Responsible for clotting formation
Responsible for fighting infection and disposal of dead cells
Transportation medium for all blood components
Contains protein called Hemoglobin
Platelets
WBC
Plasma
RBC
Your ability to remain awake is a function of the?
reticular activating system
A Patient with severe trauma to the arms and face is fully immobilized onto a LSB AND begins to vomit. You should?
turn the backboard onto its side.
Mobile Integrated Health (MIH)
Common sign with patients suffering Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)
A shuffling gait when walking
When testing a mechanical suctioning unit, you should turn on the device, clamp the tubing, and ensure that it generates a vacuum pressure of more than?
300 mm Hg
28 y/o female. Possible narcotic overdose. Patient is semiconscious and has slow, shallow respirations. You should?
insert a nasopharyngeal airway and begin assisted ventilation
Transports a mature egg to the uterus
Fallopian tubes
Relative to the wrist, the elbow is?
Proximal
You pull up on scene and your patient on the front lawn, appears to be a confused, and swinging a tire iron.....what should you do?
Seek a safe area/leave the scene and request law enforcement.
You should attempt to maintain a chest compression fraction of at least
80%
A measure of the amount of air that is moved into or out of the lungs?
Tidal Volume
What organ eliminates toxic waste products from the body and control the body’s fluid balance
Kidneys