Cardiac
Adequate tidal volume and adequate respiratory rate that produces an adequate minute and alveolar ventilation with an increased work of breathing.
What is respiratory distress?
Facial droop, arm drift, slurred speech, and time.
What is FAST?
Any substance that impairs health or causes death by its chemical action when it enters the body or contacts the skin.
What is a poison?
What is passive rewarming?
Carries oxygenated blood from the heart to the rest of the body.
What is the aorta?
Leaning forward, bracied with arms and elbows locked and hands on a hard surface.
What is the tripod position?
This should always be evaluated in a patient that presents with altered mental status.
What is your blood glucose level?
Absorbs poisons in the stomach, prevents their absorption by the body, and enhances their elimination from the body.
What is activated charcoal?
Body's cooling mechanisms have been expanded, and the central nervous system and other symptoms start to show the consequences of this depletion.
What is heat exhaustion?
Systemic arterial disease in which plaque builds up inside the arteries.
What is artherosclerosis?
Thin, barrel-chest appearance from chronic air trapping in the alveoli causing the anterior-posterior diameter of the chest to increase.
What is emphysema?
Episodes that do not involve convulsive activity, but can include rapid blinking, chewing, or lack of attention.
What is an absence seizure?
Replaces the oxygen molecules on the red blood cells, and inhibits the capability of body cells to utilize what little oxygen is delivered.
What is carbon monoxide?
Prolonged exercise or exertion that results in the depletion of sodium relative to water content and a severe electrolyte imbalance.
What is exercise associated hyponatremia?
Chest discomfort that is prolonged and/or worsens over a time period despite rest and/or medication.
What is unstable angina?
Bronchospasm, edmea, and increased secretion of mucous that causes plugging of the airways.
What is asthma?
May be a sound, abnormal twitch, anxiety, dizziness, odor, unpleasant feeling in the stomach, visual disturbance, or odd taste.
What is an aura?
Respiratory depression, pinpoint pupils, lethargic, tremors, ataxia, and abnormal gait.
What is opioid overdose?
Pinprick sensation at the bite site, becomes a dull ache within 30minutes, severe muscle spasms, rigid board-like abdomen, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and respiratory depression.
What is a black widow spider bite?
Increase in pressure in the left atrium that leads to an increase in pressure in the pulmonary veins, and in turn you begin to have an increase in pressure in the capillaries. Fluid begins to leak out between the capillaries and the alveoli.
What is Left sided heart failure?
A hereditary disease that causes pulmonary dysfunction because of changes in the mucous-secreting glands of the lungs, it also affects the sweat glands, pancreas, liver, and the intestines.
What is cystic fibrosis?
Contraction and rigidity of the muscles.
What is the tonic phase?
PCP, Cocaine, Amphetamines, Bath Salts, MDMA, and Ecstasy.
What is a CNS stimulant?
Core temperature of 68-48 degrees.
What is profound hypothermia?