Medical Emergencies
This occurs when blood flow to part of the brain is blocked or a blood vessel ruptures. Symptoms include speech slurring and facial drooping.
This professional specializes in managing ventilation, adminstering treatments to the lungs, and assesing patients with breathing disorders.
What is a respiratory therapist?
The purpose of the classroom we are connected to, containing mock hospital beds and medical equipment.
What is the Certified Nursing Assistant class
This organ produces insulin and glucagon to help regulate blood glucose.
What is the pancreas?
This medical term means an abnormally fast heart rate, generally over 100 beats per minute in a resting adult.
What is tachycardia?
This condition occurs when the heart muscle doesn't have adequate blood flow. Symptoms include chest tightness and pain, and shortness of breath.
What is a myocardial infarction (heart attack)?
This professional provides diagnostic imaging using radiation.
What is a radiologic technologist.
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This organelle within cells produces most of the ATP used to power cellular processes.
What is the mitochondrion?
This term describes difficulty breathing or the sensation of being short of breath.
What is dyspnea?
A patient develops hives, swelling in the throat, and difficulty breathing, after eating.
What is anaphylaxis?
A patient has swallowing difficulties after a stroke. This professional evaluates swallowing function and provides rehabilitation for communication and swallowing disorders.
What is a speech-language pathologist?
Wests most popular HOSA event last year.
What is Behavioral Health?
This autoimmune disease damages the myelin sheath in the central nervous system, disrupting nerve signal transmission.
What is multiple sclerosis?
This bacterial infection causes red, swollen, warm, and tender skin, often spreading beyond the initial area.
What is cellulitis?
A patient with diabetes is confused, sweating, and states that they are hungry. They also state that they are dizzy.
What is hypoglycemia?
This professional specializes in disorders of the kidneys, including chronic kidney disease and electrolyte imbalances.
What is a nephrologist?
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Who is Evelyn Sandra?
This autoimmune disease damages the small intestine when a certain yeast is consumed, causing inflammation and interfering with nutrient absorption.
What is celiac disease?
This life-threatening condition involves infection-triggered organ dysfunction resulting from a dysregulated response to infection.
What is sepsis?
A patient has sudden shortness of breath, chest pain that worsens with inhalation, and a pulse of 140 after a long period of laying down. A CT scan shows a blockage in the lungs.
What is a pulmonary embolism?
This professional specializes in diagnosing and treating disorders of the blood, bone marrow, and lymphatic system, including leukemia and lymphoma.
What is a hematologist?
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What is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
This inherited disorder causes abnormal hemoglobin to form under low-oxygen conditions, making red blood cells rigid and sickle-shaped.
What is sickle-cell-disease?
This medical term describes the abnormal accumulation of fluid in the body's tissues, often causing noticeable swelling in the legs, ankles, or feet.
What is edema?