OBSTETRICS
A pregnant patient reports a severe headache, visual changes, and swelling. These findings may indicate this serious pregnancy-related condition.
What is preeclampsia?
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
This condition is marked by irreversible brain failure. Signs and symptoms may include short-term memory loss, jargon aphasia, hallucinations, confusion, disorientation, difficulty retaining new information, and personality changes.
What is DEMENTIA?
A tube placed through an opening in the neck to assist breathing is called this.
What is a tracheostomy tube?
After the baby is born, the placenta usually delivers during this stage of childbirth.
What is the third stage of labor?
Over suctioning a newborns airway may lead to what condition.
What is BRADYCARDIA?
A high-pitched sound heard mainly when a child breathes in may indicate an upper airway problem.
What is Stridor
This condition is a progressive loss of function that begins with subtle symptoms, such as frequently losing items or having difficulty recalling people's names. 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, such as a large tongue and a cleft chin
What is DOWN SYNDROME?
DAILY
DOUBLE
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
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?
When treating a child with suspected poisoning, an EMR should gather information about the substance and should not cause the child to do this unless directed by an appropriate medical authority.
What is vomit?
An older patient hits their head during a fall. Even without an obvious wound, the EMR should be concerned about this.
What is bleeding inside the skull or a possible brain injury?
A patient with a developmental disability becomes distressed during assessment. The EMR should explain each step and ask the patient or caregiver what usually helps the patient feel this way.
What is calm or comfortable?
When the umbilical cord appears at the vaginal opening before the baby, this emergency has occurred.
What is a prolapsed umbilical cord?
If the placenta is delivered before transport, the EMR should do this.
collected and brought to the hospital with the patient - uncut.
This is the medical name for whooping cough.
What is PERTUSSIS?
DAILY
DOUBLE
A neurological disorder with two or more of the following symptoms: resting tremors, bradykinesia, muscle rigidity, and dystonia.
Approximately one fourth of adults in the United States have some form of advance directive. Two common forms of advance directives are.
What are (MOLST) MEDICAL ORDERS FOR LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT and (POLST) PHYSICIANS ORDERS FOR LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT?
When the baby’s buttocks or feet appear first during delivery, this is called this type of presentation.
Breech Birth
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)
A conscious infant suddenly cannot cry or cough effectively after putting a small object in their mouth. The EMR should recognize severe choking and provide these age-appropriate interventions.
What are back blows and chest thrusts,
A patient suddenly becomes confused and weak. The daughter says the patient was last acting normally at 8 a.m. This time is important because it helps establish a possible stroke.
What is last time known well.
A patient is agitated and cannot clearly explain why. Before assuming a behavioral cause, the EMR should consider this other category of causes.
What are other medical or environmental causes?