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Circulatory system is also called?
Cardiovascular System
Part of the body that has been cut off or torn away.
Amputation
The result of body tissues coming into direct contact with a heat source
What are Thermal Burns
The reason a Pneumothorax is potentially Life threatening
What is Air trapped in the chest cavity can expand enough to compress the lung(s) to the point of collapse.
On the skin open to the air caused by scraped, tears, or penetrating injury
What is Open Wound
Occurs when there is an imbalance between oxygen supply and demand in the body
What is Shock
The three Classifications of Burns
What is Superficial (1st Degree), Partial Thickness (2nd Degree), and Full Thickness (3rd Degree) Burns
The technical term for a "Sucking Chest Wound"
What is Open Pneumothorax?
Caused by an Impact or excessive pressure that doesn't break the skin or from a penetrating injury
What is a Contusion
Organ through which the substance causing a contact Poisoning enters the body
What is the Skin
If your core temperature was 35.0-33.9 what stage of hypothermia would you be in
Moderate
Occurs when A segment of the ribs breaks off and is mobile
What is Flail Chest
Occurs when a substance enters the body and has negative effects
What is Poisoning
May occur when taking a medication belonging to someone else.
What is Poisoning from an Ingested Substance
First and key step of the actual treatment for a dry chemical Burn
What is Brush off any Dry Chemical?
Exposure to extreme colds or by contact with extremely cold objects. Frostbite occurs when tissue temperature fall below freezing point
What is frostbite?
The increased blood flow to the skin, as much as ____% of the cardiac output, and a rising body temperature causes blood flow to internal organs to decrease.
25%
When the relative humidity exceeds _____ per cent, the air has a limited ability to absorb moisture and cooling is minimal.
70%
Name 3 categories of heat injuries
Weakness, hot, dry skin, body temperature over 41C are symptoms of ______________.
Heat Stroke