The high altitude signs and symptoms caused by the difference between the surrounding atmospheric pressure and the total gas pressure in various tissues, fluids, and cavities of the body.
What is dysbarism injuries?
100
A way to prevent aspiration of water back into the lungs during respiratory care of a patient that regained or is regaining consciousness.
What is the recovery position?
100
The black widow and brown recluse.
What are the only two types spiders that are venomous?
200
Physical Condition, Age, Nutrition and Hydration, and Environmental Conditions
What conditions affect exposure?
200
The skin becomes moist, pale, and cool
What happens when the body has excessive fluid and salt loss?
200
The TWO types of emergencies where you delay C-Spine precautions and perform CPR if necessary once a patient is face up and out of the water.
Drowning or near drowning.
200
The usual CAB order is not used and the provider instead addresses the airway and breathing concerns first, then proceeds to CPR or the AED.
What are the FIRST steps in resuscitating a patient that has drowned?
200
It is black with a distinctive bright red and orange marking in the shape of an hourglass on its abdomen and it contains a neurotoxin.
What is a black widow spider?
300
When the entire body temperature falls
What is hypothermia?
300
The least common but most serious heat emergency category
What is heat stroke?
300
The most dangerous and most common emergency in SCUBA diving. The patient will appear blotchy, froth at the nose or mouth, and have severe pain in the muscles, joints, and abdomen among other common symptoms.
What is an air embolism?
300
How long has the patient been under the water, was the patient diving off a board or the side of the pool, and if so, what is the depth of the water in the diving end?
What are some of the primary questions you need to ask in a swimming pool drowning?
300
If stung, it is painful but not a medical emergency unless the patient is allergic. A credit card could be used to remove what was left behind. This type covers 4 different insects.
What is a hymenopetra?
400
Conduction, Convection, Evaporation, Radiation, and Respiration
In what five ways can heat loss occur in the body?
400
Causes dark urine
What is dehydration?
400
Either temporary or permanent respiratory impairment from submersion or immersion in liquor
What is drowing or near drowning?
400
A type of call that requires special training, special PPE, a personal flotation device, and should not be attempted unless those steps are taken.
What is a water rescue?
400
Rattlesnakes, Copperheads, and Cottonmouths are all this type of snake.
What is a pit viper?
500
A type of exposure where the skin freezes and the deeper tissues are unaffected.
What is frostnip?
500
Also called heat collapse, this is the most common heat emergency.
What is Heat Exhaustion?
500
This diving related illness occurs after the dive is complete up to 48 hours later.
What is decompression sickness?
500
A patient that is sometimes difficult to obtain a pulse and blood pressure on.
A hypothermic patient.
500
The two types of diseases carried by Ticks.
What is Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Lyme Disease.