The bluish, gray skin coloring
resulting from asphyxia.
What is cyanosis?
100
The air sacs in the lungs where gas
exchange with the bloodstream takes place.
What are the alveoli?
100
What does BSI means .
What is body substance isolation?
100
A system that assigns percentages to sections of the body, allowing calculation of the amount of skin surface involved in the burn area.
What is rule of nines?
100
It's not funny if you broke this bone.
What is Humerus ?
200
Pulse, blood pressure, respiration, and
relative skin temperature.
What are vital signs?
200
The sound usually caused by the
tongue obstructing the pharynx.
What is snoring?
200
Falls from ladders, bent steering
wheels, a knife laying next to a patient.
What are mechanisms of injury?
200
burns to an adult chest, abd, and legs is this %.
What is 54% ,18 chest 18 (L) leg,18 (R) leg ?
200
When splinting this need to be done before and after
What is check pulse?
300
What the patient tells you he or she is
feeling.
What is a symptom?
300
Also called the windpipe, it carries air
to and from the lungs.
What is the trachea?
300
What the crew should be looking for
while en route and arriving at a scene.
What is scene safety?
300
the displacement of organs outside of the body.
What is evisceration?
300
Is most often used when a pt has a intact gag reflex
What is a NPA ?
400
60 to 80 times per minute.
What is the average pulse rate for an
adult?
400
Preformed as a last resort effort to establish a pt airway who have an obstructed airway.
What is surgical Cricothyroidotomy?
400
When there are more patients than your ambluance crew can handle.
Why/when do you call for
additional resources?
400
a condition in which 3 or more ribs are fractured in two or more places, in association with a fracture on the sterum so that a segment of chest wall is effectively detached.
What is Flail chest?
400
indicated uses V-fib,Pulseless VT,PVC greater than 12 with doc. orders, V-tach (wide and narrow) with a pulse
What is Amiodarone ?
500
Pt with AMS this should be done.
What is sugar check?
500
used for any pt in respiratory with s/s of COPD, Asthma,CHF,Pulmonary edema or pneumonia and is alert.
What is CPAP?
500
Area establish around a
vehicle accident or any danger area?
What is a hot zone.
500
Acute compression of the heart due to a build upof blood or other fluid in the percardial sac.