OVER THE HILL
HELP, I'VE FALLEN AND I CAN'T GET UP! WHEN TAKING A MEDICAL HISTORY FOR THIS PATIENT, IT IS IMPORTANT TO ASK ABOUT THIS COMMON PRESCRIPTION.
WHAT ARE BLOOD THINNERS?
AFTER DIRECT PRESSURE FAILS TO STOP PROFUSE BLEEDING IN THE ARMPIT, YOUR NEXT COURSE OF ACTION IS TO DO THIS.
WHAT IS PACK THE WOUND WITH HEMOSTATIC GAUZE?
A THREE-YEAR-OLD FELL AND BUMPED HIS HEAD. HIS DAD IS REFUSING TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL. YOU CALL MEDICAL CONTROL AND REQUEST TO SPEAK TO THIS PERSON.
WHAT IS A PHYSICIAN?
FOR ADDED VISIBILITY, THIS IS DONNED PRIOR TO EXITING THE AMBULANCE ON THE SCENE OF AN MVC.
WHAT IS A SCENE VEST?
A LIFESAVING MANEUVER FIRST DESCRIBED BY THIS DOCTOR IN 1974, CAN DISLODGE A FOREIGN OBJECT.
WHO WAS HENRY HEIMLICH?
CITING THE SALTINES SHE ATE FOR LUNCH, YOUR 60-YEAR-OLD PATIENT COMPLAINS OF ACID REFLUX. SHE SHOULD HAVE THIS ASSESSMENT PERFORMED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
WHAT IS A 12-LEAD?
MOST COMMONLY OCCURRING IN TALL YOUNG MEN, THIS CONDITION PRESENTS AS CHEST PAIN AND SHORTNESS OF BREATH.
WHAT IS A TENSION PNEUMOTHORAX?
UNDERDEVELOPED IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS, THIS IS PRONE TO COMPRESSION AND NECESSITATES PROPER AIRWAY POSITIONING.
WHAT IS CRICOID CARTILAGE?
THE CALL NOTES SAY, "ACTIVELY SEIZING." ALONG WITH THE STATPACK AND OXYGEN, THIS IS SOMETHING YOU SHOULD BRING ON SCENE.
WHAT IS SUCTION?
AS A PHILADELPHIA FIRFIGHTER IN THE EARLY 1900S, HE DESIGNED A DEVICE TO IMMOBILIZE AND MOVE UNCONSCIOUS PATIENTS RAPIDLY.
WHO WAS JAMES REEVES?
WITH A RAPID HEART OF 100, YOUR CEDARS PATIENT FEELS HOT TO THE TOUCH AND COMPLAINS OF CHILLS. BEFORE CALLING THE HOSPITAL FOR AN ALERT, THE PATIENT NEEDS TO HAVE THE FOLLOWING.
WHAT IS A POTENTIAL SOURCE OF INFECTION?
ON THE SCENE OF AN MVC, YOUR DRIVER REPORTS SPIDERING ON THE WINDSHIELD OF THE DRIVER'S SIDE. THE PATIENT HAS ONE DILATED PUPIL, INDICATING THE POTENTIAL FOR THIS.
YOU ARE CONCERNED THAT YOUR TWO-YEAR-OLD PATIENT MAY BE EXPERIENCING DECOMPENSATED SHOCK AFTER FALLING, BASED ON A SLOW RESPIRATORY RATE COMPARED TO THIS EXPECTED VALUE.
WHAT IS 24-40 RESPIRATIONS PER MINUTE?
YOUR PATIENT IS BEING VENTILATED WITH A BVM WITHOUT IMPROVEMENT. THIS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED TO EVALUATE THE BREATHS BEING GIVEN.
WHAT IS INTRANASAL END TIDAL CO2?
THIS NEUROSURGEON IDENTIFIED HYPERTENSION, BRADYCARDIA, AND DECREASED RESIPIRATORY RATE AS CHARACTERISTICS OF INCREASED INTERCRANIAL PRESSURE.
WHO WAS HARVEY CUSHING?
YOUR PATIENT CAN'T RECALL THE DAY OF THE WEEK. WITH PRONATOR DRIFT PRESENT, YOU TOUCH BOTH OF THE PATIENT'S ARMS ASSESSING FOR THIS AS PART OF THE VAN STROKE SCALE
WHAT IS RELATIVE NEGLECT?
AFTER A STRUCTURE FIRE, YOUR ADULT PATIENT HAS BURNS ON THE FRONT OF THEIR RIGHT ARM, ENTIRE LEFT LEG AND BACK. THIS IS THE NUMBER YOU SHOULD REPORT FOR BURN PERCENTAGE.
WHAT IS 40.5%?
YOU ARE ON SCENE WITH A BABY WHO THE PARENTS SAY IS "ACTING STRANGE." ALONG WITH ASSESSING VITALS, YOU OBTAIN A BLOOD SUGAR FROM THIS LOCATION.
THIS DEVICE COULD HELP YOU LIFT YOUR 300 LB SLIPPERY PATIENT THAT HAS FALLEN IN THE SHOWER WITHOUT FURTHER INJURY.
WHAT IS THE BINDER LIFT?
AN OTOLARYNGOLOGIST BY TRADE, HE CREATED A DEVICE MOST FREQUENTLY USED TO MANAGE AN AIRWAY.
WHO WAS SIDNEY YANKAUER?
PARTICULARLY PREVALENT IN WOMEN, THIS IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE STOOPED APPEARANCE OF SOME OLDER PATIENTS, AND IS OFTEN REFERRED TO AS "HUMPBACK"
WHAT IS KYPHOSIS?
INJURY CAUSED BY BLUNT OF PENETRATING TRAUMA TO THE HEART, CHARACTERIZED BY NARROWING PULSE PRESSURE AND MUFFLED HEART SOUNDS.
WHAT IS A PERICARDIAL TAMPONADE?
AFTER DELIVERING A NEONATE WHO IS CRYING AND ACTIVE WITH A HEART RATE OF 88 AND BLUEISH HANDS, YOU CALL UVA REPORTING THIS APGAR SCORE.
WHAT IS 8? (A1, P1, G2, A2, R2)
FREQUENTLY USED FOR HIP FRACTURES OR OTHER IMMOBILE PATIENTS IN PAIN, THIS DEVICE MINIMIZES MOVEMENT WHILE EXTRICATING.
WHAT IS THE SCOOP STRETCHER?
RAPID, DEEP BREATHS FIRST NOTED BY THIS PHYSICIAN OBSERVING PATIENTS IN METABOLIC ACIDOSIS.
WHO WAS ADOLF KUSSMAUL?