Special Populations
A patient over the age of ____ years old is referred to as a geriatric patient.
What is 65 years old?
When one or more layers of the aorta become weak and separate from other layers of the aorta.
What is Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA)?
Commonly known as a scrape, road rash, or rug burn.
What is Abrasion?
Any substances that are toxic, poisonous, radioactive, flammable, or explosive and can cause injury or death with exposure.
What is a Hazardous Material?
Failure of a medical care provider at any level to meet the required standard of care in the treatment of a patient.
What is Negligence?
Proper sequence to suction a newborns airway.
What is mouth then nose?
What does the "P" in AVPU stand for?
What is Pain?
Excessive bleeding.
What is hemorrhage?
Any agent designed to bring mass death, casualties, and/or massive damage to property and infrastructure.
Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD)
Consent actually given by a person, either verbally or nonverbally, authorizing the EMR to provide care or transportation.
What is Expressed Consent?
A severe, potentially life-threatening complication of infection.
What is sepsis?
The most common medications used to treat angina?
What is Nitroglycerin?
An acute viral infection of the central nervous system transmitted by the bite of an infected animal.
What is Rabies?
An incident in which there more patients than resources available.
What is a Mass Casualty Incident?
Able to make rational decisions about personal well-being.
What is competent?
You should initiate CPR on new born when the heartrate is _____ bpm or less.
What is 60bpm?
Your patient has a history is seizures and they believe she is having one currently. Patient does not respond to verbal stimuli and is only blinking and staring ahead. What type of seizure are they experiencing?
What is Absence Seizure?
Best treatment for an arterial bleed.
What is Tourniquet?
A concept of emergency patient care that attempts to place a trauma patient into definitive medical care in the shortest period of tome to achieve the best possible outcome.
What is the Golden Hour.
A written request giving permission to medical personnel to withhold resuscitation in the event of a cardiac arrest.
What is a Do Not Resuscitated (DNR) Order?
When a fertilized egg becomes implanted in the fallopian tube, rather than the uterus.
What is an Ectopic Pregnancy?
Your patient is disoriented, flushed, and has dry and hot skin with a temperature of 104 degrees, what are they experiencing?
What is Heatstroke?
Burns that extend through the skin and into the underlying tissues.
What is full-thickness burns?
A condition seen in divers in which gas, especially nitrogen, forms bubbles in blood vessels, obstructing them.
What is Decompression Sickness (the Bends)?
Name one of the four conditions that need to be present for negligence to be sustained.
What is
1. Duty to Act
2. Breach of Duty
3. Resulting injuries
4. Proximate cause