Diabetes
Geriatric Emergencies
Communicable Diseases
Abdominal Pain
Misc
100
What is required for sugar to enter the cells
Insuline
100
What is going to happen to their hearing and sight over time?
Dimish
100
What are the three best ways to protect yourself from Communicable Diseases?
Obtain immunization (HBV, HAV), Wear gloves and Wash hands
100
How many Quadrants is the abdomen divided into?
Abdomen divided into four quadrants by body mid-line, horizontal plane through umbilicus
100
What, along with heart disease and cancer, accounts for 64 percent of U.S. deaths
Stroke
200
What is Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) andHyperosmolar coma?
Hyperglycemia
200
What is the loss of a person's cognitive, or intellectual, function. Those conscious mental tasks that we perform every waking second of every day, from remembering our name to performing complicated mathematical calculations.
Dementia
200
Over 34.3 million infected with this virus right now! 71% live in Sub-Saharan Africa and 16% live in South/Southeast Asia
What is AIDS
200
This type of shock presents; Tachycardia, Decreased blood pressure, Faintness, Blacking out, Decreased urine output, Rapid breathing and Confusion
What is Hypovolemic Shock.
200
Where does the embryo implant itself in a tubal pregnancy?
What is A Fallopian tube.
300
What is something you wouldn't give a unconscious diabetic PT?
Oral Glucose
300
What is Physical or psychological injury of older person by their children or care providers?
Geriatric Abuse/Neglect
300
What are microorganisms that may be present in blood and cause disease, such as hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Exposures occur through needlesticks or cuts from other sharp instruments contaminated with an infected person’s blood or through contact of the eye, nose, mouth, or skin with infected blood.
Bloodborne Pathogens
300
What is Crampy abdominal pain; nausea, vomiting (often of fecal matter)and abdominal distension
Bowel Obstruction
300
What does the "myo" mean in myocardial?
Muscle
400
What is altered mental status, seizure, headache or unusual behavior a sign of?
hypoglycemic
400
What is is the thinning of bone tissue and loss of bone density over time.
Osteoporosis
400
What is a popular string of influenza that has caused havic in 2009?
H1N1 aka "Swine Flu"
400
Typically, this type of organ bleeds heavily and causes shock.
When solid organs are injured, they bleed heavily and cause shock (example:Liver, Spleen, Kidney and Pancreas)
400
What was Friedrich Serturner the first to extract from opium and use as a pain reliever?
Morphine
500
What is a state of inadequate insulin levels resulting in high blood sugar and accumulation of organic acids and ketones in the blood.
Diabetic ketoacidosis
500
True or False: You shouldn't monitor EKG in all patients with neurologic symptoms
False, Cardiogenic mechanisms may cause TIAs/CVAs
500
Sudden onset of fever, headache, stiff neck (except in infants), nausea, often vomiting, a purplish-red rash in some cases, confusion or difficulty awakening from sleep are common, especially in children. In infants, poor feeding, extreme listlessness, irritability and sometimes vomiting may be the only symptoms present.
Meningitis, Bacterial
500
What two "spaces" are located within the abdomin?
Peritoneal cavity Retroperitoneal cavity
500
What do itchy people call the "rhus radicans" they were sorry they came into contact with?
Poison Ivy
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