Drugz
This medication is a platelet aggregation inhibitor used for patients having a myocardial infarction.
What is Aspirin?
A traction splint is used to stabilize this bone, in the event of a fracture.
What is the Femur?
This organ houses babies while they grow during pregnancy.
What is the Uterus?
Injuring a person's name or character through false written statements.
What is Libel?
This exam should be performed any time a patient has altered mental status or non-baseline deficits.
What is a stroke scale/assessment?
Using medications for something other than what they were prescribed for is better known as this.
What is substance abuse?
This is the most preventable injury in the geriatric population.
What are falls?
The external "shell" of the ear, in anatomical terms.
What is the Pinna?
(also accepted: Auricle)
You must have a physical, valid copy of this document in order to cease resusciative efforts.
What is a DNR?
This electrical treatment is used to correct an abnormally fast heart rate with a pulse.
What is synchronized cardioversion?
This medication turns cyanide into vitamin b12 in the body.
What is Hydroxocobalamin?
This is a method for calculating the percentage of body surface area that has been burned by dividing each portion of the body into multiples of a particular number.
What is the rule of nines?
This valve is found between the right atrium and the right ventricle in the heart.
What is the tricuspid valve?
The assumption that a person has accepted care based on their actions or surrounding circumstances, despite a lack of verbal agreement.
What is implied consent?
This condition creates a perfusion problem in the lungs due to a blockage, and you may find that your oxygen therapy does not improve the patient's condition as a result.
What is a pulmonary embolism?
This medication has a nickname for sending people on a sleepy "ride" in a type of vehicle.
What is Ativan?
(Take a ride on the "van")
If the phrenic nerve is damaged in a traumatic accident, you might expect this muscle to stop functioning.
What is the diaphragm?
This is considered the last portion of the upper GI tract, before it becomes the lower GI tract.
What is the duodenum?
If you detain or hold a patient without justifiable cause, you will be charged with this.
What is False Imprisonment?
Prehospital treatment of this condition should include a 12-lead ECG, fluid infusion, Tylenol, and antibiotics if possible.
What is sepsis?
This medication's generic name sounds like you're calling someone on your underwater cell.
What is Hydromorphone?
This word comes from ancient Greek and means "wound" or "hurt"
What is Trauma?
Humans and giraffes have the same number of these structural components in their body.
What are neck vertebrae? (7 of them)
This is a federal law that protects sensitive patient health information. (The full name)
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
Some protocols allow for the use of this medication type in hypothermic patients in order to reduce shivering, particularly in targeted temperature management.
What are benzodiazepines?