Misc. I
This has no adverse effect on the oxygen-carrying capacity of the RBC's and no negative effect on the patient's blood pressure.
What is hydroxocobalamin?
The creation of energy through the breakdown of nutrients in the presence of oxygen.
What is aerobic metabolism?
REL
What is Recommended Exposure Limits?
These types of sensors are filled with a chemical reagent that reacts with a target gas and results in a meter reading.
What is an electrochemical sensor?
Oxygen-carrying cells found in mammals.
What are red blood cells?
A group of substances that occurs naturally in materials such as coal or crude oil.
What are Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH's)?
What is the mitochondria?
Wearing this is the gold standard of respiratory protection and is the best way to reduce the possibility of inhalation exposures.
What is SCBA?
STEL represents this amount of exposure no more than four times a day.
What is 15 minutes?
This is the natural antidote for CO poisoning.
What is oxygen?
Reagent-filled tubes designed to draw in a sample of air by way of a manual handheld pump.
What is a colorimetric tube?
A process in which material is decomposed or broken down, into simpler molecular compounds by the effects of heat alone.
What is pyrolysis?
STEL
What is Short-Term Exposure Limits?
The IDLH for CO is ____ ppm.
What is 1200?
The airborne solid and liquid particulates and gases evolved when a material undergoes pyrolysis or combustion.
What is smoke?
This can be administered to a smoke inhalation patient without first verifying the presence of cyanide in the body.
What is the Cyanokit?
A state of inadequate oxygenation of the blood and tissue sufficient to cause impairment of function.
What is hypoxia?
Also known as the visible part of smoke.
What are particulates?
REL represents this amount of exposure.
What is 10-hour exposure?
An elevated ______ level in cells is a key indicator of cyanide toxicity.
What is lactic acid?
These two gases are the most common in all fires.
What is CO & HCN?
Found in the mitochondria, this is important in cell respiration as an agent of electron transfer from certain cytochrome molecules to oxygen molecules.
What is cytochrome oxidase?
IDLH
What is Immediately Dangerous to Life & Health?
This type of sensor uses ultraviolet light to ionize the gasses that move through the sensor.
What is a photoionization sensor?
______ are the most common technologies used in postfire detection and monitoring.
What are electrochemical sensors?