Medical terminology
Towards and Away from the Axial body.
What is Proximal and Distal?
Respiration vs Ventilation.
Gas exchange vs. Conduction of air between the airway.
Where myocardium is the thickest.
What is the left ventricle?
Central Nervous system vs Peripheral nervous system.
What is the brain and the spine vs. the rest of the body.
FAST, stroke acronym.
What are the Face, Arms, Speech, and Time?
All the planes of the body and what they "cut".
What are the
Sagittal: Separates left and right
Coronal: Separates front and back
Transverse: Separates upper and lower body
The organ that separates the upper and lower airways.
What is the Larynx?
Tachycardia and bradycardia.
What is a resting heart rate of over 100 and a heart rate of under 60?
The nervous system which raises the heart rate and blood pressure, and lowers digestion and salivation.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Respiratory rate x Tidal Volume.
What is the formula for Minute volume?
The three types of muscles and the common places where they can be found.
What are Skeletal muscles in the skeleton and limbs, Smooth muscles inside of organs, and cardiac muscles in the heart?
The functions of the upper airway.
Heats, humidifies, and filters.
The amount of blood exiting the heart per cycle.
What is cardiac output?
Little to no oxygen reaching the brain, leading to cell death.
What is the main cause of a stroke?
Laying flat on back, facing upwards.
What is the supine position?
Name 3 major organs in the Right Upper Quadrant.
What are the Liver, stomach, gallbladder, Colon, right kidney, and the Pancreas?
The number of lobes for each individual lung.
What are 3 for the right lung, and 2 for the left lung?
Atrioventricular valves.
What are the mitral valve and the tricuspid valve?
Functions controlled by the cerebellum.
What are coordination, balance, fine motor movement, and body posture?
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Signs/symptoms, Allergies, Medication, Pertinent past medical history, Last meal, Events preceding.
All the levels of organization of the body, in order.
What are the chemical, organelle, cellular, tissue, organ, system, and organism levels?
Common symptoms of Pneumonia.
What are Crackles, shortness of breath, weakness, fever, and cough with mucus?
The node which sends the first electrical signal.
What is the SA node?
Part of the brain responsible for breathing, swallowing, and cardiac function.
What is the medulla oblongata?
The first thing always done by an EMT upon arrival.
What is ensuring for personal safety?