Vital Signs
Scene Size-Up
Patient Assessment
Pharmacology
Anything Goes
100
Considered normal breathing rate for an adult.
What is 12-20 breaths per minute.
100
Ensuring scene safety begins when?
What is:
When receiving dispatch information?
100
Two types of trauma.
What is Penetrating trauma and Blunt trauma?
100
List 3 routes medication administration.
What is:
Sublingual: Oral: Inhalation: Intramuscular Injection: Intranasal: Subcutaneous
100
Type of questions asked to patients in order to document a patient history.
What are open-ended questions?
200
Measuring a blood pressure by finding the radial artery, inflating the blood pressure cuff, then slowing releasing the cuff until you feel the radial artery return giving you the systolic pressure only.
What is palpation?
200
When you arrive on scene and realize you have multiple patients. What should you do immediately?
What is:
Call for additional resources?
200
Three ways to check for response to painful stimulus.
What is:
Trapezius pinch: Supraorbital pressure: Sternal rub:
Earlobe pinch: Armpit pinch: Nail bed pressure:
Pinch to the web between the thumb and index finger or pinch to finger, toe, hand, foot.
200
List 3 forms of medication.
What is:
Compressed powder or tablet: Liquid: Gel: Suspension: Fine powder for inhalation: Gas (Small-Volume nebulizer)
200
List 3 techniques given by your book to help reduce your patients anxiety on scene.
Bring order to the environment.
Introduce yourself: Position Yourself
Gain patient consent: Be courteous
Use communication skills
Use touch when appropriate
300
List the 6 vital signs you take on every patient.
What are: Respirations, Pulse, Skin, Pupils, Blood Pressure, Pulse Oximetry
300
A baseball bat strike to the forehead, a large-caliber gunshot, and ejection through the windshield are all examples of this.
What is the mechanism of injury?
300
This is an example of what?
What is flexion posturing (decorticate posturing)
300
The official name is commonly the generic name followed by what set of initials?
What is U.S.P. or N.F?
300
Give an example of a limitation (when an inaccurate reading) might be given on a patient.
Shock: Hypo-perfusion: Hypothermia: Excessive movement by the patient (seizure): Nail polish on the finger the probe is attached to: Carbon Monoxide: Cigarette smokers: Anemia
400
The respiratory rate and tidal volume gradually increase and gradually decrease followed by a period of apnea for up to 10 seconds. The pattern then repeats itself.
What is Cheyne Stokes?
400
The degree of your anticipation that the patient has been injured, or has been injured in a specific way, based on your knowledge that certain mechanisms usually produce certain types of injuries.
What is index of suspicion?
400
Skin condition for a patient who is dehydrated or suffering from severe heat exposure or from some medical emergencies.
What is dry?
400
List 3 contraindications of nitroglycerin.
What is:
Systolic pressure<100
Recently taken ED medication
Recently taken hypertension medication
Patient has a heart condition
400
Some patients create a special challenge to gathering patient history. List 3.
What is:
Silence: Overly talkative patient: Anxious patient: Depressed patient: Confusing behavior/history: Patient with multiple symptoms: Angry/hostile patient: Intoxicated patient: Crying Patient: Language barrier: Hearing/Visual Impairment: Pediatric patient: Elderly patient: talking with friends/family.
500
Certain drugs such as LSD, amphetamines, atropine, and cocaine cause this change in a patient's pupils.
What is dilated?
500
The three goals of scene size-up.
What is:
Safety at the scene
Determine MOI or NOI (trauma or medical)
Determine/request additional resources if needed
500
List the three categories of the Glasgow Coma Scale (categories must be exact).
What are:
Eye Opening
Verbal Response
Motor Response
500
The 5 Rights of Patient Medication administration.
What are:
The RIGHT patient. The RIGHT medication.
The RIGHT time/date. The RIGHT dose.
The RIGHT route.
500
On the GCS, What number is given for spontaneous eye opening? Oriented and converses? Obeys verbal commands?
What is:
Eye Opening 4?
Oriented and converses 5?
Obeys verbal commands 6?