Vital Signs
The number of breaths a person takes per minute.
What is Respiratory Rate?
Universal Emergency Number for people throughout the United States to request emergency.
What is 911?
Procedure used to treat upper-airway obstructions or choking by foreign objects by using thrusting force.
What is the Heimlich Maneuver?
Medication that you take to alleviate hearburn.
Bonus Points for the medical name.
What are Tums? or Calcium Carbonate.
The name of the pigment responsible for giving skin and hair color.
What is Melanin?
Number of times your heart beats per minute.
What is Heart Rate?
An adhesive strip used to cover minor cuts and abrasion.
What is a Band-aid?
Emergency procedure consisting of chest compressions often combined with artificial ventilation or mouth to mouth.
Bonus points for the complete name.
What is CPR? Or Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Commonly used medication to help with allergies and often causes some drowsiness.
Bonus points for the generic name.
What is Benadryl? Or Diphenhydramine.
Type of blood cells fight infections and diseases.
What are White Blood Cells?
Vital sign that measures how well your body can regulate heat.
What is Temperature?
A device such as a strip of cloth or a band of rubber, that is wrapped tightly around a leg or an arm to prevent the flow of blood to the leg or the arm for a period of time. Seen in movies when someone is bleeding out and they rip a piece of their clothing to tie around and delay the bleeding.
What is a tourniquet?
It can treat narcotic overdose in an emergency situation.
Bonus points for the generic name.
What is Narcan? Or Naloxone.
Medication used to treat constipation by inducing bowel movements.
Bonus points for an example.
What is a laxative?
Examples: Bisacodyl, Senna, Magnesium Citrate, Milk of Magnesia, Polyethylene glycol
The organ that produces insulin in the body.
What is the pancreas?
The force of the blood pushing against the artery walls during contraction and relaxation of the heart.
What is Blood Pressure?
Topical medication used to help relieve itching, swelling and irritation caused by allergies and skin conditions.
What is Hydrocortisone?
A medicine is used to treat severe allergic reactions called anaphylaxis.
What is an Epi-Pen or epinephrine injector?
The generic name for Tylenol.
What is acetaminophen?
The location of the thinnest piece of skin found in the human body.
What is the eyelid?
Measure of the level of oxygen in your blood.
What is Oxygen Saturation?
Critical condition brought on by the sudden drop in blood flow through the body. May result from trauma, heatstroke, blood loss or an allergic reaction. It also may result from severe infection, poisoning, severe burns or other causes. It keeps organs from getting enough blood or oxygen.
What is Shock?
A portable electronic device that is automatically able to treat arrhythmia issues through defibrillation by the application of electricity which stops the arrhythmia, allowing the heart to re-establish an effective rhythm.
What is an Automated External Defibrillator?
General class of medications sold over the counter to treat athlete's foot, yeast infections, or certain rashes.
What are anti-fungal medications? Will take some examples.
In what year did California become the first state to legalize medical marijuana usage?
Hint: The year Andy was born.
1996!!!