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What are the two main causes heat cramps?
What is electrolyte imbalance and dehydration.
This condition in environmental emergencies is the most serious?
What is heatstroke.
Which body areas are commonly affected by frostbite?
What is face, ears, fingers and toes.
What is the definition of drowning?
What is respiratory impairment from liquid immersion.
What serious effect can a lightening injury cause?
What is cardiac arrest?
What is the difference between heat cramps and heat exhaustion?
What is heavy sweating.
Unlike heat exhaustion, heat stroke patients have this type of symptom on the skin?
What is hot dry skin that feels hot to the touch.
What is the most important rule when treating frostbite?
What is not to rub the affected part.
What is the first step in a water rescue?
What is scene safety.
Lightening injuries can also cause these injuries?
What is electrical burns.
Painful involuntary muscle spasms?
What are heat cramps.
Heatstroke is an emergency that requires this immediate action?
The body temperature must be lowered quickly.
At what body temperature is hypothermia defined?
What is below 95 degrees.
Small quantities of water reaching the larynx (voice box) causes this to occur?
What is laryngospasm. (This makes it hard or impossible to breathe).
What is the most important safety rule for the EMR on any emergency?
What is not putting you life at risk by exceeding the limit of your training.
What is the first step in treating heat cramps?
What is move the patient to a cool place.
This is the most dangerous heat-related illness in children?
What is heatstroke.
What is the key rule for severe hypothermia?
What is no one's dead till them warm and dead.
In submersion injuries, this condition is an added risk when a patient is wet?
What is hypothermia.
After scene safety is secured following a lightning strike, what is the first priority regarding this patient?
What is supporting their ABC's. (Oxygen administration, defibrillation and CPR may be needed for some patients.
Heat cramps most often occur where?
What is legs or calf muscles. (They can also occur in the abdominal muscles).
Heat stroke patients experience high body temperature, dry hot skin usually, or hot flushed skin and one other sign?
What is altered mental status.
What is usually the last area on the body to lose heat in hypothermic patients?
What is the abdomen.
What are the 4 ways in which a body loses heat?
What is radiation, evaporation, conduction, and convection.
In lightning strikes, this problem can occur hours after the initial injury?
What are cardiac problems.