Vocabulary
DCAP BTLS stands for
What is deformities, contusions, abrasions, punctures (or penetrations), burns, tenderness, lacerations, and swelling
A patient who is snoring likely needs this airway intervention first.
What is head tilt–chin lift or jaw thrust?
Only to be used as a last resort – considered as life or limb option.
When do you use a tourniquet?
The first step in managing major external bleeding.
What is apply direct pressure?
The first priority at any emergency scene.
What is scene safety?
Bright red, spurting blood.
What is arterial bleeding?
This medication, given by EMTs, can help break up cardiac chest pain if prescribed.
What is nitroglycerin?
Shock caused by an allergic reaction.
What is anaphylactic shock?
Used to treat a suspected femur fracture.
What is a traction splint?
This organ filters blood and produces urine.
What is the kidney?
The acronym SAMPLE stands for:
What are Signs/Symptoms, Allergies, Medications, Past history, Last oral intake, Events leading up?
Medication that will assist with symptoms during anaphylactic shock.
What is epinephrine?
The type of shock caused by loss of blood volume.
What is hemorrhagic shock?
Do not replace organ(s), apply an occlusive dressing and bulky trauma dressings.
How do you treat an evisceration?
The number of compressions per minute in adult CPR.
What is 100–120 per minute?
The sound produced when there is edema or spasms of the lower airway.
What is wheezing?
This condition results from low blood sugar.
What is hypoglycemia?
This is the most common cause of airway obstruction in an unconscious trauma patient.
What is the tongue?
Cold, clammy skin, diaphoresis, altered mental status, nausea and vomiting.
What are the signs and symptoms of shock?
The mask that delivers close to 100% oxygen.
What is the non-rebreather?
The term for “shortness of breath.”
What is dyspnea?
The Cincinnati Prehospital Stroke Scale checks facial droop, arm drift, and this.
What is speech?
Also called dying respirations, they are sporadic, irregular breaths usually seen just before respiratory arrest.
What are agonal respirations?
The last vital sign to change in response to shock.
What is blood pressure?
The universal blood donor type.
What is O negative?