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Foundations
Foundations
In 1966 the National Highway Safety Act charged this agency with the development of EMS standards.
Department of Transportation
It transports gases and nutrients, aids in excretion, and provides protection and regulation.
What is blood?
The initial treatment for controlling bleeding from open abdominal injuries.
Applying direct pressure to the wound
These conditions must be present before you give oral glucose.
What are: must be conscious, able to swallow, altered mental status and a history of diabetes.
These microbes can cause yeast infections
What are Fungi?
Term for the frontal aspect of the body
Anterior or Ventral
Your patient suffered an large laceration on his anterior forearm. You have applied a pressure dressing and bandage, but these have become saturated due to continued bleeding. You would:
Apply a tourniquet or consider administering a hemostatic agent.
Blood vessels ________ and the heart rate _________ is part of the body's compensatory response to blood loss.
Constrict, increases
This high pitched and almost musical sound may be heard in lower respiratory obstruction.
What is Wheezing?
The condition in which the placenta separates from the uterine wall.
What is Abruptio placentae?
The force the myocardial muscle exerts to move the blood.
Contractility
The rule of palm, used to measure the extent of the burn, is estimated by using . . .
The palm of the patient's hand, which equals about 1% of the body's surface area.
A dangerous indicator signifying a failure in the patient's compensatory response to blood loss.
Hypotension
This condition may be mimicked by hypoglycemia?
Alcohol intoxication
A concerning differential diagnosis for a 52-year-old male patient complaining of heartburn with epigastric pain and a history of reflux disease.
What is he is suffering from a myocardial infarction?
The term for an infection of the protective covering for the brain and spinal cord.
Meningitis
This is responsible for the early signs and symptoms of shock.
The body's attempts at compensation for blood loss.
Your patient is a 3-year-old girl who is unable to move her elbow after her mother picked her up by the forearm. Proper splinting of this injury would be to immobilize from the ________ to the ________.
Waht is the forearm and humerus?
The two primary actions caused by epinephrine in anaphylaxis
What are Vasoconstriction and bronchodilation?
A patient with renal disease who is currently on dialysis and missed an appointment may present with dangerously high levels of this electrolyte.
What is Potassium?
Caused when a high-energy projectile travels through the relatively liquid human body, it forms a cavity along the track of the projectile.
Cavitation
The direction pH goes as a consequence of hypoperfusion in hypovolemic patients.
Down as acid buildup increases
These signs result as pressure within the cranium increases.
Increased blood pressure, decreased pulse, widened pulse pressure.
A critical differential diagnosis for a known psychiatric patient experiencing irrational behavior, altered mental status, amnesia with irregular respirations, elevated blood pressure, and decreasing pulse.
What is a Head Injury or Hemorrhagic Stroke?
When submerged in water, biological death may be delayed if the water temperature is below this temperature.
What is 70 Degrees Fahrenheit?