If you suspect child abuse on your pt, who should you contact?
What is PD, receiving hospital, social services
100
_____ are a condition in which the lens of the eye becomes cloudy.
What is cataracts
100
When a pt. cannot pronounce words correctly.
What is Dysarthria
100
Of the following, who is the FIRST person you should rely on when obtaining the history of a patient with cognitive impairment?
What is the patient.
100
DKA patients have these kinds of respirations?
Head injury patients can have these respirations?
What is Kussmauls - Cheyenne-Stokes
200
List 3 physical signs of child abuse?
What is Various stages of healing, cig.burns, bite marks, bruising in odd places, burns buttocks
200
_____ is an abnormal increase in intraocular pressure.
What is glaucoma
200
What is one technique you can use to help communicate with the hearing impaired?
write it out, get in front of pt, read lips, talk slow, (not louder)
200
which is second only to smoking as a cause of preventable death?
What is obesity
200
When you have a head injury and your BP goes up, pulse drops and you have irregular breathing.
What is Cushings Reflex/Traid
300
MOST baby size cervical immobilization devices on the market are designed to fit a child who is about what age?
24 months
300
When dealing with the very elderly...What is the terminology used to refer to a condition of an individual with a disease that is realistically expected to result in the death of the patient despite medical treatment?
What is terminal illness
300
If a blind patient wants to bring his dog... what should you do?
ADA says you are allowed. If the dog is mean, leave the sassy pup behind for animal control until a better means can be resolved.
300
Why is the actual incidence of domestic or intimate partner abuse NOT clearly understood?
What is because it is under reported
300
Scarring left by lightning.
What is Lichenburg scarring
400
At what age is the peak incidence of SIDS?
What is 4 months
400
A patient with a breathing tube is making bubbling noises in his lower airway and has mucus and fluid in the tube. What should your first action be?
What is suctioning the airway
400
You should suspect respiratory difficulty in a patient with damage to the spinal cord at or above which level?
What is C3-C5
400
Which condition is characterized as a blockage in an artery of the lungs, often a blood clot that can cause a sudden onset of shortness of breath and nonradiating chest discomfort?
What is PE
400
Name of position where you are fully sat up, partially sat up, laid down on back, laid down on stomach, on sides, and with feet elevated.
What is Fowlers, semi-Fowlers, supine, prone, lateral recumbent, Trendelenberg
500
early presentation of appendicitis in a child will often be presented with pain where?
What is umbilicus area.
500
Pt. is a 70 male. There is a small, round tube that exits from a patient's neck, through which he is breathing. Gamble 500 to spell it correctly?
What is Tracheostomy tube
500
morbid obesity is defined as a body weight _______
name 2 diseases or illnesses that are associated with obesity?
What is 100 pounds - heart disease, sleep apnea, diabetes, HTN
500
With age, degenerative processes affect the ability of the heart to pump blood. Calcium is deposited in areas of deterioration, fibrous tissue begins to replace muscle tissue, and the heart walls become thicker. What is the medical term for that condition?
What is cardiac hyptertrophy
500
Name of the tube that in placed in someones throat that paramedics use to intubate someone?
What is the name of the advanced airway we have in our bag for EMTs to use?