Cardiac
Most appropriate site to check a concious patients pulse:
What is radial?
Tiny air sacs located at the end of the bronchioles
What is Alveoli?
Your patient has multiple paper cuts on her hand. This blood is likely coming from the _______.
What is capillaries?
MOI and NOI stand for:
What is Mechanism of Injury and Nature of Illness?
Your initial responsibility when arriving on scene
What is determining scene safety?
The three sides of the Pediatric Assessment Triangle are:
What is Appearance, Work of Breathing, and Circulation?
Valve that opens and closes to allow air to enter and leave the lungs or guide food into the esophagus
What is epiglottis?
Your patient who was in a car crash is now complaining of numbness and tingling in all four extremeties. What body system is likely injured?
What is nervous system?
A normal range for BGL
What is 70-100?
What is vehicle instability, traffic, broken glass, enviornmental hazards, weather, hazardous materials?
Patients who experience cardiac arrest secondary to hypothermia must be _______ before they are considered dead.
What is warmed?
Signs of inadequate breathing
What is cyanosis, noisy respirations, respiratory rate less than 12, rapid breathing, lack of breath sounds and chest movement?
Your patient is in a car crash and reports pain in her right leg above her ankle. How would you best describe the locaiton of this injury?
What is distal part of her leg?
As soon as you determine that your patient is experiencing CHF, take these steps:
What is place the patient in a sitting position with legs hanging over the edge of the bed or chair, administer oxygen at a high flow rate, request ALS, and arrange for prompt transport to an apropriate medical facility?
Techniques that help you communicate effectively with a pediatric patient
What is kneel down to the level of the patient, build a rapport, talk to both the child and the parent, use words that are easy to understand for the child?
A heart attack occurs when one or more of the ______ arteries are blocked.
What is coronary?
List the parts of the upper airway
What is nasal cavity, mouth, nasopharynx, oropharynx, pharynx, epiglottis, and larynx?
You arrive on the scene of a multiple car accident. You are assigned to care for the pediatric patient that is still in one of the cars. You find your patient awake and crying in his carset with a small head lac that is no longer bleeding and an obvious deformity to his left foot and ankle, you proceed by:
What is leave the child in the car seat and remove it from the vehicle?
Things assessed in the Cincinnati Prehospital Stroke Scale
What is facial droop, arm drift, and abnormal speech?
For how long may a Patient Care Report be legally called into question?
What is 7 years?
When the left side of the heart fails to pump blood adequately causing a backup into the lungs, this is a form of _____.
What is CHF (congestive heart failure)?
Proper rate for infant CPR compressions
What is 100-120?
You arrive on scene to a person that was stabbed and is activitely bleeding. Your FIRST action should be to:
What is apply direct pressure?
Explain what causes AAA:
What is when one or more layers of the aorata become weak and separate from other layers of the aorta. The weak spot causes ballooning of the vessel which can rupture and causes massive interbal bleeding?
You arrive on scene for a patient that spilled boiling water on themseles. Upon examination they have burns covering their chest and abdomen. They burnt _____ percent of their body.
What is 18?