Have a heart.
The single dose of nitroglycerin for cardiac chest pain.
What is 0.4mg?
Insta-glucose is used to treat this diabetic emergency.
What is hypoglycemia?
The class of MDI medication an EMT is allowed to administer.
What is a beta 2 agonist?
Route of administration for an epinephrine autoinjector.
What is intramuscular (IM)?
The main pacemaker of the heart.
What is the sinoatrial (SA) node?
The medical abreviation for nitroglycerin.
What is NTG?
The accepted range for blood glucose.
What is 70 to 140 mg/dl?
A holding chamber that attaches to a metered-dose inhaler to improve medication delivery to the lungs.
What is a spacer?
Route of administration for aspirin.
What is by mouth(PO)?
Exchange of oxygen between the capillaries and tissue cells is this type of respiration.
What is internal respiration?
The medical abreviation for aspirin.
What is ASA?
To treat hypoglycemia, the EMT must document a BGL <70 mg/dl and this.
What are signs and symptoms of hypoglycemia?
MDIs can be used for asthma or this progressive, irreversible lung disease, commonly caused by smoking .
What is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)?
The route for nitroglycerin tablet and spray.
What is sublingual (SL)?
A valid Florida DNR is printed on this color paper.
What is yellow?
The reason for adminstering aspirin to a suspected MI.
What is to prevent platelet agglutination (keep the clot from getting bigger)?
The EMT is prohibited from assisting with this injectable hormone-based medication used to treat Type 1 diabetes mellitus.
What is insulin?
This sympathomimetic hormone is used in the treatment of anaphylaxis.
What is epinephrine?
Insta-glucose is given via this route.
What is buccal?
A brief episode of stroke-like symptoms that typically disappear within minutes, but usually last no longer than 1 hour.
What is a transient ischemic attack (TIA)?
The allowable drop in systolic blood pressure before withholding nitroglycerin.
What is 30mm Hg?
The dose for insta-glucose.
What is 15g?
When administering intranasal naloxone via syringe, this device must be attached to the syringe.
What is a mucosal atomizer device (MAD)?
Term for a drug which is absorbed in the digestive system.
What is enteral?
A continuous seizure activity lasting longer than 5 minutes or two or more sequential seizures without a full recovery of consciousness between seizures.
What is status epilepticus?