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The proper terminology for a blood pressure cuff.
What is a sphygmomanometer?
sphyg·mo·ma·nom·e·ter
This person performs post-mortem examinations of bodies to determine the manner and cause of death.
What is a Medical Examiner?
HIPAA
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
This is available 24/7/365.
What are Crisis Services?
This country has the highest maternal mortality rates of all the developed countries.
What is the United States?
The flexible cartilage at the lower portion of the sternum.
What is the Xiphoid process?
The upper portion is called the Manubrium.
Postmortem rigidity that is characterized by the stiffening of the limbs of a corpse caused by chemical changes in the muscles.
What is Rigor?
PEARL
What is Pupils Equal and Reactive to Light
Patients will not be positioned this way on the stretcher.
What is Prone?
HELLP
Hemolysis, Elevated Liver enzymes, Low Platelets
A legal duty that requires a first responder to respond to an emergency scene and provide medical care.
What is the Duty to Act?
2 sources of bodily fluid are collected for this.
What is a Toxicology Collection?
(Vitreous fluid, urine, femoral blood draw, subclavian blood draw)
ABC
What is Airway Breathing and Circulation
Behavioral patients may be taken here instead of the hospital when certain criteria are met.
What are Alternative Destinations?
Phoenix Counseling Centers in Shelby or Gastonia.
APGAR
What is Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, and Respirations?
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
What are the stages of grief?
Postmortem lividity or hypostasis that results in a dark purple discoloration of the skin.
What is Livor?
Pooling of blood in the lower portion, or dependent parts, of the body after death.
MOST
Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment
BARS
What is the Behavioral Activity Rating Scale?
When a blood clot travels through the bloodstream and becomes lodged in the pulmonary circulation, the obstruction will block blood flow to the lungs, and potentially be life-threatening.
What is a Pulmonary Embolism?
You can suspect this in patients of childbearing age with respiratory complaints who have recently delivered, especially with the sudden onset of difficulty breathing or altered mental status.
This medical tool was developed by Sanctorius in 1612
What is the thermometer?
These are not performed locally and can take 3 to 6 months to complete.
What is an Autopsy?
START
What is Simple Triage And Rapid Treatment?
It is not called Excited Delerium.
What is Behavioral Hyperactive Delirium With Severe Agitation?
This condition is characterized by the following signs and symptoms: Severe hypertension, Severe or persistent headache, Visual abnormalities such as seeing spots, blurred vision, or sensitivity to light, Swelling in the hands and feet (edema), Upper abdominal or epigastric pain, Dyspnea and/or retrosternal chest pain, Anxiety, Altered mental status
What is Pre-Eclampsia?
Eclampsia is characterized by seizures that occur as a result of hypertension.