OBSTETRICS
This condition is when the placenta implants itself low in the uterus and it partially or fully obstructs the cervical canal?
What is PLACENTA PREVIA
If a newborn remains vigorous and pink after birth where should a new born be positioned in an ambulance for transport to the hospital.
On the mother with direct skin to skin contact.
(continue to monitor thermoregulation)
Three parts of the pediatric assessment triagle are.
What are APPEARANCE, WORK OF BREATHING, CIRCULATION TO SKIN
Unlike delirium, this condition is marked by irreversible brain failures. Signs and symptoms may include short term memory loss, jargon aphasia, hallucination, confusion, disorientation, difficulty retaining new information, and personality changes.
What is DEMENTIA?
Treatment of this rapidly or slow spreading disease that can target multiple organs system can lead to a severely reduce immune system. First responders should take extra precautions not to spread communicable disease with populations seeking treatment of this disease.
What is CANCER?
A blastocyst will implant itself to this layer of the uterus
What is the ENDOMETRIUM?
Over suctioning a newborns airway may lead to what condition.
What is BRADYCARDIA?
Recruitment of accessory muscles of respiration to provide more "muscle power" so as to move more air into the lungs is called.
What is RETRACTIONS?
This condition is a progressive loss of function that begins with subtle symptoms, such as frequently losing items or having difficulty recalling names of people. With time, patients lose their ability to think, reason clearly, solve problems, and concentrate.
What is ALZHEIMERS DISEASE
An inherited genetic disorder that is responsible for developmental delay, cognitive impairment, and a pattern of unusual physical features. Approximately 1 in 700 babies in United States born with this disorder.
What is DOWN SYNDROME?
This term defines premonitory signs of labor, which are often unnoticed, that include the woman beginning to feel a relief of pressure in her upper abdomen and a increase in pressure in her pelvis as the fetus begins to descend the birth canal
What is Lightening
Many newborns become centrally pink but have blue or purple hands and feet. This is considered normal. The medical term for this condition is.
What is ACROCYANOSIS?
This pathogen is the leading cause of lower respiratory tract infection infants, geriatrics, and immunocompromised people; it is a common and contagious virus that bronchiolitis and pneumonia in children
What is RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS (RSV)
The medical term for the sense of body position is.
Hint: (its not balance)
What is PROPRIOCEPTION?
The homeless population must be treated at hospitals, regardless of their ability to pay, under what law?
What is the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA)
The average blood loss for a woman in the 3rd stage of labor is approximately.
What is 150ml (.3 pints)?
What series of developmental anomalies including a small chin and posteriorly positioned tongue frequently leads to airway obstruction in the fetus. (this condition ends with the words "sequence")
What is PIERRE ROBIN SEQUENCE?
This is the medical name for whooping cough.
What is PERTUSSIS?
A neurological disorder with two or more of the following symptoms: resting tremors, bradykinesia, muscle rigidity, and dystonia.
What is PARKINSON'S DISEASE?
Approximately one fourth of adults in the United States have some form of advance directive. Two common forms of advance directives the book gives are.
(Hint: think two acronyms)
What are (MOLST) MEDICAL ORDERS FOR LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT and (POLST) PHYSICIANS ORDERS FOR LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT?
An oocyte matures when the corresponding follicular cells respond to this hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland
What is FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE(FSH)?
Fetal circulation has three major blood flow deviations (shunts) from that of an adult. What are these three shunts
What are DUCTUS VENOSUS, DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS, and FORAMEN OVALE
(they become the ligamentum venosus, ligamentum arteriosus, fossa ovale)
For children older than 2 years of age the forumla to estimate E.T. tube size is.
What is 4 + (age in years / 4)
Many forms of abuse and neglect share the same characteristics amongst populations. However financial abuse is a unique abuse more common to the geriatric population. According the text book what ratio or percentage of elder abuse ever gets reported.
What is about 1 out of 24 or 4-5%?
Name one of the two types of MOTOR speech disorders that may adversely effect speech?
What is DYSARTHRIA OR APRAXIA?
DYSARTHRIA - is a failure of neurotransmission between the nervous system and muscles of the face & throat
APRAXIA - a neurologic impairment originating in the brain that in consistently fires muscles