Emergency
Protocols
Protocols
This tool is used to quickly stop bleeding
What is a Tourniquet?
This field studies the nervous system and disorders like epilepsy and Alzheimer’s.
What is neurology?
What is the largest organ in the human body?
What is Skin?
Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Disability, and Environment/Exposure
What is the ABCDE's?
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
What does CPR stand for?
This maneuver is what you do when a patient is choking
Heimlich Maneuver
This area focuses on children's health and development.
What is pediatrics?
This body system provides support and protection and includes bones and joints.
What is the skeletal system?
This term means “high blood pressure.”
What is hypertension?
A normal adult has this many bones.
What is 206?
The recommended rate of chest compressions in adult CPR is
100 to 120 per min
This area focuses on cancer development, diagnosis, and treatment.
What is oncology?
This organ stores bile and helps with fat digestion.
What is the gallbladder?
“Oste/o” is used to indicate conditions, structures, or procedures related to
What are bones?
This blood type is known as the universal donor.
What is O negative?
This is the most common medication given to stop an active seizure
What is Lorazpam?
This study involves the immune system and how the body fights infection.
What is immunology?
This plane divides the body into right and left halves.
What is the sagittal plane?
This acronym refers to a scan that uses magnetic fields.
What is MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)?
These organs remove waste from the blood and produce urine.
What are the kidneys?
If a patient has sharp chest pain and one sided breaths, it is most likely a
What is a Collapsed Lung?
This field examines hormones and disorders like diabetes or thyroid disease.
What is endocrinology?
This is the term for the front of the body.
What is anterior?
Genetic disorder where erythrocytes are abnormally shaped, like a sickle
What is sickle cell anemia?
This group of diseases cause muscles to become weaker overtime
What is Muscular dystrophy?