The use of physical or chemical means to remove, inactivate, or destroy blood-borne pathogens on a surface or item so it is not longer infectious.
What is decontamination?
100
The medical term for a stroke, resulting when blood flow is reduced to a part of the brain.
What is a Cerebrovascular Accident?
100
Rope constructed with its interior core protected by a woven exterior sheath designed to optimize strength, durability, and flexibility. The core fibers provide tensile strength of the rope, while the sheath protects the core from abrasion during a rescue.
What is Kernmantle Rope?
100
Barriers, such as gloves and resuscitation masks, that prevent being exposed to blood and other body fluids when caring for a patient in an emergency or working around potentially infected materials.
What is Personal Protective Equipment?
100
The body system that produces hormones that help regulate many body functions.
What is the Endocrine System?
200
What chemical is a flammable, colorless, odorless, packaged in cylinders under high pressure. It poses an immediate fire and explosive hazard when concentrations
exceed 4%. It is much lighter than air and burns with an invisible flame. MSDS number 1009. Simple Asphyxiant.
What is Hydrogen?
200
A life-threatening condition in which the vital organs are not receiving enough oxygen; hypoperfusion.
What is Shock?
200
Refers to a technique climbers use to exert friction on climbing rope so that a climber does not fall very far. A climbing partner typically applies friction at the other end of the rope whenever a climber is not moving, and removing the friction from the rope whenever the climber needs more rope to continue.
What is belay?
200
Triage system for evaluating and treating multiple patients when resources and personnel are limited.
What is the START triage system?
200
The body system that extracts energy and nutrients from food to meet the body's needs.
What is the Gastrointestinal System?
300
Blue, crystalline powder, granules or larger crystals. Odorless.Skin and respiratory irritant; moderately toxic by ingestion and inhalation. MSDS number 3077. Otherwise known as CuSO4.
What is Copper Sulfate?
300
The process of moving air or oxygen into the lungs of a patient who is not breathing inadequately, also refers to each breath given.
What is ventilation?
300
A simple knot commonly used by climbers and cavers as part of a life lining or belay system.This knot can be used on any locking carabiner side enough to take two turns of the rope.
What is a munter hitch?
300
Laws in most states that protect persons from legal liability who voluntarily render care, in good faith, at the scene of an emergency.
What are Good Samaritan Laws?
300
Tiny air sacs in the lungs where oxygen and carbon dioxide pass into and out of small blood vessels for gas exchange.
What are alveoli?
400
Chemical with the physical properties of yellow or greenish gas, with a distinct pungent irritating odor. Causes severe respiratory tract, eye and skin burns. MSDS identification number 1017.
What is Chlorine?
400
Areas between bones of the thorax and neck that move inward with the work of breathing in a patient with severe respiratory distress.
What are retractions?
400
This device can be utilized as a lowering device, on the main line and belay systems and be quickly changed over to a raising system without switching our or replacing hardware.
What is MPD?
400
The act of terminating patient care without first ensuring the care you started is continued by someone with equal or greater training.
What is Abandonment?
400
An organ that develops in pregnancy to supply the embryo and fetus with oxygen and nutrients from the mother by means of the umbilical cord.
What is the placenta?
500
Acronym BLEVE
What is Boiling Liquid Expansion Vapor Explosion?
500
A serious dysrythmia, common after a heart attack, in which the heart muscles quiver rather than pumping blood.
What is Fibrillation?
500
A patient carrying technique used to negotiate short sections of technical terrain by planting your feet solid and staying in one position while passing the patient litter hand to hand.
What is a caterpillar pass?
500
The level of care that can be provided by a health care professional with a specified level of training.
What is the scope of practice?
500
The "soft spots" of an infant's skull between the cranial bones that have not yet fused.