Beyond Limitations
This genetic disorder is characterized by increased lung and digestive mucus production. These patients have a life expectancy in their late 40's.
Cystic Fibrosis
Often you have to keep your bariatric patient in this position when attempting to ventilate with a bag valve mask.
Semi Fowlers
You may have to add three to five milliliters of sterile saline to get this thick secretion out
mucous plug
These devices detect pauses in breathing and provide alerts to ensure timely medical intervention, they often give false alarms caused by movement, loose lead wires, or improperly placed electrodes.
What is an Apnea Monitor
Signs of this device failing could be pain throughout the small and large intestines, abdominal distention, and absent bowel sounds.
Colostomy
This order is a medical directive that instructs healthcare providers not to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) if a patient's heart stops beating or if they stop breathing.
What is a Do Not Resuscitate Order (DNR)
This form of abuse involves failing to provide food, shelter, or medical care.
What is neglect?
Patients with this impairment may benefit from speaking slowly and clearly, and maintaining eye contact.
What is hearing loss?
This term refers to the state of not having a fixed, regular residence.
What is homelessness?
This degenerative disorder is characterized by immune cells within the body attacking the myeline sheath of certain nerve fibers, ultimately destroying nerve fibers and preventing nerve transmission to other body tissues.
Multiple Sclerosis
Pinch or Pressure points from equipment may cause soft tissue injury and this type of great clot
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
This surgical opening in the neck provides a path between the anterior part of the neck and the trachea.
stoma
These small electronic devices are implanted in the chest to regulate abnormal heart rhythms by delivering electrical impulses to the heart.
What is Internal Cardiac Pacemakers
Hydrocephalus patients may have this device to drain excess CSF that may accumulate around the brain.
What is a Shunt
This federal law, enacted in 1986, ensures that individuals with emergency medical conditions receive appropriate medical treatment regardless of their ability to pay or their insurance status. It applies to all hospitals that participate in Medicare.
What is the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)
These red flags—multiple bruises in different healing stages—may indicate this.
What is physical abuse?
Autism is an example of this kind of disability.
What is a developmental disability?
Living in poverty increases risk of this preventable condition due to lack of nutrition.
What is malnutrition?
This disorder results from a developmental brain defect in utero, traumatic brain injury at birth or early childhood, oxygen deprivation at birth, or infection, such as meningitis, during neonatal infancy.
Cerebral Palsy
We may need larger equipment for this medication administration when dealing with bariatric patients due to the excessive fatty tissue. (Daily Double)
Intramuscular
This mnemonic may help you remember the possible Causes of an airway obstruction and correct the problem.
What is DOPE?
This device can be used to communicate with Grandpa who may be hard of hearing or it to check his ticker.
Stethoscope
This venous access device with the tip of the catheter in the vena cava is used for many types of home care patients, including patients receiving chemotherapy, long-term antibiotic therapy, pain management, and hemodialysis.
Central Venous Catheters
This type of care focuses on providing comfort and support to individuals with life-limiting illnesses, with an emphasis on pain management and quality of life
What is Hospice Care
A child who appears fearful of caregivers, overly compliant, or withdrawn may be experiencing this.
What is emotional abuse?
Use this when communicating with a patient who is blind.
What is verbal description and touch guidance?
This is the inability to afford or access basic healthcare services.
What is healthcare disparity?
This type of muscular dystrophy is characterized by enlarged heart muscle tissue, heart dysrhythmias, scoliosis of the spine, and gait disturbances.
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
In coordination with ramps, this device can help load a bariatric patient while the stretcher is at its lowest setting.
Winch
This cap completely blocks the trach tube and forces the patient to use the upper airway to breathe.
What is a Decannulation Cap (Red Cap)
This implantable medical device is used to treat epilepsy and depression by delivering electrical impulses to the X cranial nerve
Vagus Nerve Stimulator
This medical device will leave you pulseless but don't worry; there are other ways to check for perfusions, such as skin color, temperature, moisture, and glucose level.
What is a Left Ventricular Assist Device
This surgical device involves inserting a tube to divert excess cerebrospinal fluid from the brain's ventricles to the heart's atrium. Reducing intracranial pressure helps alleviate symptoms.
What is a Ventricular Atrium Shunt
Before reporting suspected abuse, this must be present.
What is reasonable suspicion?
When treating patients with sensory processing disorders, this environmental factor should be minimized.
What is noise or stimulation?
A paramedic treating a homeless person should also assess for this mental health factor.
What is depression or substance abuse?
This congenital disability is caused by the incomplete closure of the spinal column during embryonic or fetal development resulting in an exposed portion of the spinal cord. You may hear this condition, also called myelomeningocele.
Spina Bifida
This bariatric surgeon creates a one-ounce pouch at the stomach’s inlet, then detaches the small intestine at the jejunum and attaches it to the stomach at the pouch. The remaining arm of the duodenum is also attached to the distal ileum, creating a Y-shaped circuit.
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB)
This solid device is used to insert the tracheostomy and must then be removed to make way for the inner cannula.
Obturator
This garment will talk with you heart-to-heart when you lose your rhythm. However, please don't take it off when you are compressing
External Defibrillator Vest
This device decreases cardiac workload and augments perfusion in patients with cardiogenic shock, structural abnormalities in the heart, myocardial infarction, or following cardiac surgery.
What is an Intra Aortic Balloon Pump
This class of medications, which mimic the action of the hormone GLP-1, is commonly used to manage blood sugar levels in individuals with type 2 diabetes, often resulting in weight loss and improved cardiovascular outcomes.
What are GLP-1 inhibitors or GLP-1 receptor agonists
This federal act mandates that healthcare providers report suspected child abuse.
What is the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA)?
This federal law protects people with disabilities from discrimination.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
These 5 conditions are recognized as Social Determinants of Health.
What are economic stability, education, healthcare access, neighborhood environment, and social context?