Before you run over to help, you make sure the area is this.
What is safe?
Ultrasound makes pictures of the inside of the body using these, instead of light or X-rays.
What are sound waves?
Doctors use this tool to auscultate the heart and lungs.
What is a stethoscope?
You do this to help a wound heal properly and prevent infection
What is suturing?
I fall down unconscious and am not breathing. The first thing you do is…
What is yelling “Are you ok” and shaking them awake?
Pushing at 40 beats per minute is this.
What is too slow?
Dense things like bone and kidney stones look this way on the screen.
What is bright (white)?
Respiratory rate, heart rate, blood pressure and temperature are examples of...
What is vital signs?
The first thing you do BEFORE doing a suture
What is washing your hands and putting on gloves?
You want to check someone's heart rate without a stethoscope. Show me where you would take your pulse.
What is the carotid/radial artery?
This is how deep each compression push should go.
What is at least 2 inches?
This big word describes how well a tissue bounces sound waves back.
What is echogenicity?
The normal human body temperature.
What is 98.6°F (37°C)/97.8°F (36.5°C) - 99°F (37.2°C)?
The tool you use to hold the hook while doing the suture
What is a needle driver?
DAILY DOUBLE!!! You are in the middle of doing CPR, but you forgot how to fast you need to do chest compressions. Sing one of the songs you learned.
What is Stayin’ Alive or Baby Shark?
This machine, whose name is shortened to three letters, can shock a heart back into rhythm.
What is an AED?
The word for “no echoes,” used for fluid-filled spots like cysts.
What is anechoic?
The heart has two top chambers called atria and two bottom chambers called these.
What are ventricles?
The first “simple” suture you learned how to do today
What are interrupted simple suture?
Your friend is coughing a lot, and he feels like he can’t breath. Show how you can use a stethoscope to listen to his lungs.
What is listen for breath sounds?
This is the number of seconds you spend watching for breathing.
What is 10?
In color Doppler, blood moving away from the probe shows up as this color.
What is blue?
In a blood pressure reading, this word names the top number, measured when the heart beats.
What is systolic?
The two types of suture materials based on
What are absorbable and nonabsorbable?
You are a medical student shadowing surgery and your attending doctor tells you to do an interrupted simple suture. Tell me the first step of the suture.
What is a bite?