Rule of Fives
Five places you can bleed to death
What is your thoracic cavity, peritoneal cavity, retroperitoneal cavity, long bone compartment, and onto the ground?
Explain the difference between an agonist and an antagonist
What is an agonist stimulates receptors, an antagonist blocks other medications or chemicals from stimulating a receptor?
Signs and symptoms of croup
What is inflammation of the pharynx, larynx, and trachea which causes stridor and seal-bark cough?
Gestational diabetes does not resolve after delivery. (True/False)
What is false?
The number of cranial nerves you have
What is 12 pairs (24)?
Five immediate life threats
What is airway obstruction, exsanguinating hemorrhage, respiratory or cardiac arrest, pneumothoraxes, and flail chest?
Aspirin does this (4 things)
What is reduces fever, pain, and inflammation and inhibits platelet aggregation?
Most common cause of seizure in children
What is rapid fever?
An embryo goes here during an ectopic pregnancy
What is anywhere outside the uterus, but usually the fallopian tubes?
The most common MOI for a head injury. (2 things)
What is falls and MVCs?
The five obvious signs of an unworkable patient
What is decapitation, decomposition (in context), dependent lividity, rigor mortis, and injury incompatible with life?
The 9 rights of medication
What is right patient, right medication, right dose, right route, right time, right education, right to refuse, right response and evaluation, right documentation?
Respiratory rate of a newborn
What is 20-60 breaths per minute?
Explain the difference between abruptio placenta and placenta previa
What is abruptio separates from the uterus prematurely and previa covers and develops over the cervix?
These types of respirations are usually seen in patients with stroke or head injury
What is Cheyne-stokes respirations?
The six points on the star of life mean...
What is early detection, early reporting, early response, on scene care, care in transit, transfer to definitive care?
Dosages of Epinephrine in adult anaphylaxis and cardiac arrest patients
What is 0.3 mg IM in anaphylaxis, 1 mg IV in cardiac arrest?
The subarachnoid space is relatively larger in children, leaving more cushioning for the brain. (True/False)
What is false?
The number of weeks where going a pregnant person going into labor would result in a spontaneous abortion?
What is 20 weeks?
Three signs of a basilar skull fracture are
What is CSF drainage from the ears, raccoon eyes, and battle's sign?
Peavy's five EMS rules are
What is don't wreck Uncle Pete's truck, don't drop the patient,
Explain Ipratropium
What is a bronchodilator, used in bronchospasm especially with COPD and emphysema, trade name is Atrovent, 0.5 mg in a nebulizer?
What is increased intracranial pressure, meningitis, or tumors or trauma?
The situation in which we can insert gloved fingers into a pregnant woman's vagina
What is if there is a prolapsed umbilical chord?
Cerebral edema happens immediately after a traumatic event (True/False)
What is false? (It can take hours to develop)