Life threatening emergencies
This is the medical term for high blood pressure.
What is hypertension?
This is an infection that comes on quickly and is severe
What is an acute infection?
Double points: This is the reason we do NOT want to squeeze the bee stinger with tweezers when removing it from our skin.
What is it will squeeze venom into the skin.
In which stage of HIV is a person most contagious?
What is stage 1?
What virus is cytomegalovirus related to?
What is herpes.
This is how we treat an opioid overdose.
What is with NARCAN.
What is the following the definition of: Gaps between intestinal cells, allowing Environmental toxins, and Undigested food into the bloodstream.
What is leaky gut
Describe what an aneurysm is.
What is a bulge in the wall of an artery that causes part of the artery to weaken?
This is the kind of tick that transmits lyme disease
What is a blacklegged (or deer) tick?
These two groups of individuals are at an increased risk of developing heatstroke
who are those 65+ (+/- 1) and those 4 (+/- 1) and under.
This is the reason we give aspirin to those having a heart attack
What is because it's a blood thinner.
What is the name of the law that deems that if a person is unable to respond in an emergency, the law assumes they would give consent if able, so you may begin care
What is implied consent?
DOUBLE POINTS: This is a blood vessel bursting in the brain due to blunt force trauma.
What is an aneurysm?
Which type of fracture involves the bone shattering into many pieces and requires surgery?
What is a Comminuted fracture
DOUBLE POINTS: This is the term given to describe the PAIN a person feels as a result of a partially clogged artery. It's a WARNING that a heart attack may be in their future unless they modify their lifestyle.
What is angina?
DOUBLE POINTS: An aneurysm can occur anywhere, however the two main places they occur are the XXXXX and the XXXXX.
where are the aorta and brain?
When treating someone for heat stroke, these are 4 four places we should place cool compresses.
What is the back of neck, armpits, groin, and forehead?
This is a virus that attacks the liver
What is Hepatitis?
DOUBLE POINTS: This STD causes weakening of the arteries and if untreated can result in an aneurysm.
What is syphilis?
What condition is the following sentence explaining? -When the brain becomes insulin resistant so glucose no longer enters brain cells and they die.
What is Alzheimer's disease
When has HIV considered to have progressed to AIDS?
What is when CD4 cells have fallen below 200.
DOUBLE POINTS: This fracture is the WORST and most severe one since the bone is shattered.
What is a comminuted fracture?
There are two conditions that atherosclerosis can lead to. What is one?
What is heart attack or stroke.
This is the medical (and difficult to say) term given to the clogging of the arteries due to fatty plaques.
What is Atherosclerosis?
DOUBLE POINTS: What is an opportunistic infection?
What is one that does not NORMALLY cause severe disease but overtakes the body when it's weak?