Anatomy and Physiology
Medical term for the kneecap
What is the patella?
What is alert, verbal response, painful response, and unresponsive?
Something regarding the pt's condition that the pt tells you.
What is aspirin?
When the heart rate is slow, usually less than 60 beats per minute.
What is bradycardia?
Name 3 of the steps for evaluating a patient using the Cincinnati stroke scale.
facial droop, arm drift, smile, speech, strength(grip), time last normal.
The two upper chambers of the heart
What is the right and left atria?
In emergency medicine, the reason EMS was called, usually in the patient's own words.
What is the chief complaint?
Bulging of the neck veins.
What is JVD( jugular vein distention)?
A drug that helps to dilate the coronary vessels that supply the heart muscle with blood.
What is nitrogylcerin?
Carrying away of heat by currents of air, water, or other gases or liquids.
What is convection?
The pressure created in the arteries when the left ventricle contracts and forces blood out into the circulation.
What is systolic blood pressure?
This is where you would check the pulse for an unresponsive adult patient.
What is the carotid pulse?
This is what the "P" in "OPQRST" stands for, and means.
What is provocation? Does anything make the pain better or worse?
Specific signs or circumstances under which it is appropriate to administer a drug to a pt.
What is an indication?
Application of an external heat source to rewarm the body of a hypothermic patient.
What is active rewarming?
The nerves that enter and leave the spinal cord and travel between the brain and organs without passing through the spinal cord.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
From your trauma and medical sheet, list two things that fall under circulation.
What does SAMPLE stand for.
What is: signs and symptoms, allergies, medications, past pertinent history, last oral intake, events leading to present illness?
List the five rights of administering a medication.
What is the right patient, the right time, the right medication, the right dose, and the right route?
A line drawn vertically from the middle of the armpit to the ankle.
What is the mid-axillary line?
List the 4 places a peripheral pulse may be felt.
What is the radial artery, brachial artery, carotid artery, and femoral artery?
On your trauma and medical sheet, what is the last thing that falls under your primary assessment/survey?
What is identifies pt priority and transport decision?
From your trauma sheet, list each thing you can get a point for assessing under "head".
What is: scalp and ears, eyes, mouth, nose and facial area?
The adult dose for epinephrine, in the use of anaphylactic shock.
What is 0.30mg?
What is the pulmonary vein?