An abnormal sensation such as numbness tingling or burning.
What is paresthesia?
It is the most common cause of left sided heart failure.
What is Coronary artery disease and MI?
Name three common head bleeds
What is the epidural, subdural and subarachnoid?
What are kidney stones?
A Doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman. The bus driver needs to go on a long trip of 10 days. Before he left he gave the woman 10 apples. Why?
A apple a day keeps the doctor away.
A determination made by asking the patient the questions of person, place, time and event. This helps to provide information about the patient's memory.
What is orientation?
Reproducible chest wall tenderness on palpation is most consistent with what benign cause of chest pain?
What is Costochondritis? (inflammation of the cartilage that connects the ribs to the breastbone)
Head trauma causing the body to become ridged with wrist and arms extending away from the body is know as this.
What is Decerebrate posturing.
Priority intervention for the patient who is experiencing a burn injury.
What is stop the burning process?
I can fly but have no wings. I can cry but I have no eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me. What am I?
What are clouds?
An inability to speak and/or read or write
What is aphasia?
This medication decreases the heart rate and force of contraction lowering blood pressure and making the heart beat more slowly and with less force.
What are beta blockers?
This type of Shock causes vasodilation below the injury and eventually leads to wide spread hypo perfusion.
What is neurogenic shock?
Name the 4 types of burns.
What is thermal, chemical, electrical and radiation?
The person who makes it, sells it. The person who buys it never uses it. The person who uses it never sees it. What is it?
What is a coffin?
A type of exam with a indicates the severity of a stroke with a score of ____ representing the possibility of a large vessel occlusion.
What is LAMS and 4 or greater?
Beck's Triad is a combination of hypotension , jugular venous distension (JVD), and muffled heart sounds, indicating this heart problem.
What is cardiac tamponade?
Splinting is important to managing muscle/skeletal trauma because it lessens the chances of these 3 complications.
What is Pain, hemorrhage, and fat embolism?
This burn involves the skin, fat and muscle layers.
Full thickness.
You are in a pitch-black room with a candle, a wood stove, and a gas lamp. You only have one match. Which do you light first?
What is the match?
Upon assessment of a possible stroke patient you have the patient wrinkle their forehead and notice wrinkling to only one side indicating this possible issue.
What is Bell's Palsy
It can be seen with increased work of breathing that causes transient decreases in cardiac output and blood pressure.
Bruising and swelling of the skin of the umbilicus indicating possible abdominal bleeding is called this sign.
What is Cullen's sign?
A adult trips and falls into a campfire and burns the front of their left arm, chest/abdomen and upper left leg. This percentage of surface area is affected.
What is 27%?
Two men are in a desert. They both have packs on. One of the guys is dead. The guy who is alive has his pack open, the guy who is dead has his pack closed. What is in the pack?
what is a parachute?