Random Facts 1
This is described as, a type of health care that focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's pain and symptoms and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs at the end of life.
What is hospice?
What is the pediatric weight formula?
(years of age x 2 )+8
What is Murphy's Sign?
What is asking the patient to take in and hold a deep breath while palpating the right subcostal area?
Your adult patient is complaining of non-traumatic pain in his left upper abdominal quadrant (LUQ). He describes the pain as cramping, diffuse, and with varying intensity from six to ten on the pain scale. Upon assessment, you find there to be distension, pain, and guarding on palpation in the LUQ.
Which of the following organs should you suspect is causing his pain?
What is the stomach?
While evaluating the pupils of your unresponsive trauma patient, you note his pupils have a dysconjugate gaze. What type of injury does this finding normally represent?
What is brainstem damage or herniation?
What is an aberration?
What is a deviation or irregularity (not normal)?
What condition causes a disruption of the heart's normal rhythm? Specifically, this disorder can lead to irregular heartbeats in the heart's lower chambers (ventricles), which is an abnormality called ventricular arrhythmia.
What is Brugada Syndrome?
What is a Hordeolum?
What is a (eye) stye?
The umbilical cord is wrapped tightly around the baby's neck and you have tried unsuccessfully to slip the cord over the head. What should your next course of action be?
What is clamp the cord in two places and cut it in the middle?
You decide to administer CPAP to your spontaneously breathing patient who is complaining of dyspnea. What should the initial pressure valve setting be on a fixed rate FiO2 CPAP device?
What is between 7 and 10 cm H2O
What is the Apgar Score?
What is, a test given to newborns soon after birth?
You are preparing to intubate an apneic child who is 12 years old and weighs 29 kg. Which of the following endotracheal tube sizes would be most appropriate for this patient?
What is a 6.5mm ET tube with a balloon cuff?
What is an epidural hematoma?
What is when blood accumulates between the skull and the dura mater?
Your adult patient is found unconscious with decreased respirations. Which of the following medical conditions is most likely to cause a direct decrease in a patient's respiratory effort and/or breathing rate?
What is metabolic alkalosis
Your adult patient was involved in a baseball accident in which a ball struck him in the face around the mandible. He is conscious and alert, denies loss of consciousness, but is not able to close his mouth. It appears as if he is yawning widely and is not able to return his face to a normal position.
What is the most likely cause of this finding?
What is anterior mandibular dislocation?
What is the name for a fertilized egg?
What is a Zygote?
Electrolytes, such as calcium, potassium, and sodium in the blood, are essential to normal cardiac function. What other electrolyte must be present in the blood for the electrolytes to help maintain normal cardiac function?
What is Chloride?
If a patient has stopped breathing due to a spinal cord injury, which of the following nerves is likely involved in the injury?
What is the phrenic nerve?
You are on-scene with an elderly female; bystanders report she suddenly collapsed while walking through the mall. She is pulseless, apneic, and showing pulseless electrical activity on the monitor. When attempting to ventilate and intubate the patient, it is apparent she has a laryngeal spasm, and the ventilations are not getting into her lungs.
At this point, what should you do to manage the patient's airway?
What is use a forcefully upward pull on the lower jaw while ventilating with a bag-valve mask.
Your adult anaphylaxis patient is suffering from hypotension that is not responding to epinephrine. Which of the following medications is capable of combating hypotension associated with anaphylaxis when epinephrine fails to improve blood pressure?
What is Cimetidine?
This is described as, an extra electrical pathway in the heart causes a rapid heartbeat.
What is Wolff-Parkinson White Syndrome?
When serum glucose levels are low, what does the nervous system release to promote liver glycogenolysis?
What is epinephrine and norepinephrine?
COPD patients may present with electrocardiogram changes due to the chronic hypoxemia. Which of the following EKG changes would you expect to see in an end-stage COPD patient with right atrial enlargement?
What are tall peaked, P-waves?
Your 20-year-old patient has reportedly been ill for three days with a high fever, chills, nausea, and vomiting. Her skin is cool and pale and has a delayed skin turgor response. Her heart rate is accelerated while her respirations are shallow and fast. Her blood pressure is borderline hypotensive, and she has a decreased level of consciousness.
Suspecting dehydration, which of the following IV fluid would be most appropriate to administer to this patient?
What is isotonic solution?
You suspect your 66-year-old patient may be experiencing an ischemic stroke due to his signs, symptoms, and especially his past medical history. Which of the following hematological disorders would most likely cause or worsen a stroke caused by a blood clot?
What is Polycythemia?