Lung Story Short
Name that disease: 22 yof with wheezing, in tripod position, and 2-3 word dyspnea
Bonus points: Treatment and dosage
What is asthma?
What is albuterol 2.5 mg/ 3 mL via nebulizer?
A patient with ACS will often describe their pain as this
What is pressure, squeezing, or aching?
Compression rate and depth for an adult
What is 100-120 beats per min and 2 inches?
22 yom is acting strange, sweating, pale, and is cool to the touch.
What is hypoglycemia?
Bonus points for treatment.
Brief loss of consciousness with a spontaneous recovery
What is syncope?
Lower-pitched sounds resembling snoring or rattling, caused by secretions in larger airways
What is rhonchi?
63 yom with sudden onset chest pain after working on his car. His pain is relieved with nitroglycerin and rest.
What is angina?
45 yom patient becomes pulseless and apneic while in your care. You assign these roles to your crew.
What is compressor, airway, and AED?
Polyuria, polyphagia, and polydipsia are common symptoms of this
What is hyperglycemia?
A stroke caused by bleeding in the brain from a ruptured blood vessel
What is a hemorrhagic stroke?
A 58 year old patient is complaining of SOB. You auscultate rales (crackles), they are diaphoretic, have +3 pedal edema. BP 198/105.
What is CHF/ Pulmonary edema?
Bonus points: Treatment for this patient.
A 70 yof is complaining of epigastric pain, nausea, dizziness, and is profusely sweating.
What is acute myocardial infarction?
The AED will only shock these rhythms.
What is v-fib and v-tach?
Pancreatic cells do not function properly, causing too little in the body.
What is Type 1 diabetes?
Your patient has facial droop, left arm drift and difficulty speaking. These symptoms resolve within 16 hours.
What is a TIA?
Sharp chest pain, tachycardia, tachypnea, decreased or absent lung sounds, and JVD are all common signs of this
What is a spontaneous pneumothorax?
Weakened sections of arterial walls begin to dilate (balloon).
What is an aneurysm?
Cardiac arrest due to systemic hypoxia
What is asphyxial cardiac arrest?
This binds to receptor sites on cells and allows glucose molecules to pass
What is insulin?
Brief loss of concentration or awareness, does not include motor activity.
What is an absence seizure?
A 7 year old female complains of a sore throat, is sitting in tripod pod position, temp 101.2 and is drooling.
What is epiglottitis?
62 yom with JVD, pedal edema, and rigid abdomen
What is right sided heart failure?
Causes of mechanical failure of the heart
Must name 3
What is loss of normal heart muscle structure, Myocardial infarction, Chronic hypertension, Loss of normal heart valve function, Direct trauma, Pulseless electrical activity (P E A) indicates mechanical failure
The RAS needs these to function
What is glucose, oxygen, and water?
The 3 phases of a generalized seizure
What is tonic, clonic, and postictal?
Bonus points if you can describe what occurs in each phase.