Respiratory
The mouth, pharynx, and larynx make up this division of the airway-the trachea does not.
What is the upper airway?
An acute myocardial infarction occurs when myocardial tissue dies secondary to an absence of this.
What is oxygen?
Slurred, difficult to understand speech is called this.
What is dysarthria?
This organ is the storage pouch for bile from the liver.
What is the gallbladder?
Insulin functions in the body by doing this.
What is enabling glucose to enter the cells?
Signs/symptoms, allergies, medications, pertinent history, last oral intake, events lead up to, this acronym.
What is SAMPLE?
In an alert patient, a regular inhalation/exhalation pattern with clear, equal bilateral breath sounds indicate this.
What is normal breathing?
The ability of cardiac cells to contract spontaneously without a nerve stimulus.
What is automaticity?
A generalized (tonic-clonic) seizure is characterized by this.
What is severe twitching of all the body's muscles?
A hernia that slips back into the body cavity where it belongs is described this way.
What is reducible?
Deep, rapid Kussmaul respirations occur because the body is doing this.
What is eliminating acids from the blood?
Hepatitis, blocked bile ducts, and pancreatic cancer call produce this yellowing sign.
What is jaundice?
In a child, increased tidal volume is NOT one, but bradycardia, cyanosis, and decreased breathing effort ARE signs of this.
What is respiratory failure?
A blood clot that travels until it lodges in a vessel too narrow to pass, blocking flow.
What is an embolism?
Sudden severe headaches followed by unresponsiveness, slow irregular breathing, a BP of 190/94, pulse 50, is most likely this.
What is a hemorrhagic stroke?
RUQ pain with referred pain to the right shoulder in an obese 35 y/o woman suggest this.
What is acute cholecystitis?
The definitive in-hospital treatment for a hyperglycemic patient with a BGL of 480mg/dL.
What is insulin?
When a patient take numerous medications, do this with them.
What is take them all to the hospital and list them on the PCR?
Compared to adults, the pediatric airway is smaller in diameter, shorter in length, and the vocal cords sit here.
What is more anteriorly?
Increased heart rate plus increased stroke volume produces the greatest rise in this.
What is cardiac output?
When taking a stroke history from family, this is the single most important thing to determine.
What is the patient's last known normal?
For a hematemesis patient (alcohol use Hx, bright red vomit, hypotensive) this is your most immediate action.
What is protect the airway from aspiration?
Unresponsive, tachycardic, hypotensive patient wearing a 'hemophilia' alert bracelet, suspect this.
What is internal bleeding?
In a critically ill patient FAR FROM the hospital, after managing the ABCs you should consider this.
What is requesting an ALS unit?
A tired, cyanotic (lips) heart failure patient laboring to breathe needs this over a NRB.
What is assisting ventilations with a BVM?
For an AMI patient with an implanted pacemaker, you provide this level of care.
What is the same care as any other AMI patient?
A single seizure lasting more than a few minutes or repeated seizures with no return to consciousness between them, defines this emergency.
What is status epilepticus?
This two word term describes the sudden onset of severe abdominal pain from irritation of the peritoneum, a possible surgical emergency.
What is an acute abdomen?
In this blood disorder, red cells stiffen into a crescent shape, jamming small vessels and triggering painful crises.
What is sickle cell disease?
Home 3 months from West Africa with fever, watery diarrhea, vomiting, body aches, suspect this.
What is Ebola?