Terms and Acronyms
COPD
What is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease?
This system moves bloody throughout the body
The Cardiovascular System?
What is Zofran?
The origin of electrical impulse in a healthy heart.
What is the Sinoatrial node?
This level of certification can assist with a chest tube placement.
What is a Critical Care Paramedic?
CPAP
This system controls movement and electric processes
What is the nervous system?
A potentially deadly adverse effect of Versed.
The phenomenon where a section of the heart does not fully beat, but instead send multiple random electrical signals, resulting in non-cohesive "half beats"
What is fibrillation?
The term for a bone fracture that has protruded from the skin.
What is an open fracture?
GERD
What is Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease?
This organ filters blood for impurities and creates waste in the form of urine
What are the kidneys?
The typical dose for this medication is 125mg.
What is Solu-Medrol?
What is synchronized cardioversion?
This procedure is done in attempt to treat a pneumothorax.
What is Chest Needle Decompression?
Complete or partial collapse of the alveoli
What is Atelectasis ?
The largest organ in the body
What is skin?
This medication can be used to treat pain and to sedate a patient.
What is Ketamine?
Daily Double: This is the term for the heart muscles ability to generate its own electrical field.
What is automaticity?
A umbilical cord wrapped around the neck of a baby being delivered.
What is a Nuchal Cord
A condition where one or more arteries in the lungs become obstructed by a clot
What is a Pulmonary Embolism?
This is the volume (ml) that the average set of human lungs inhale during one breath
What is 500-600ml?
The usual dose for this medication is 1 gram.
What is TXA?
This cardiac rhythm.
What is a 2nd Degree AV Block Type 1?
The medical term for wet, late stage body decomposition.
What is liquefaction?