The Human Body
The 4 planes of the body are the midsaggistal plane, the transverse plane, the sagittal plane and the _________ plane
What is the coronal (frontal) plane?
This is a subjective condition that the patient feels and tells you about.
What is a symptom?
A patient is bradycardic. This means....
What is Slow heart rate
This is a complex arrangement of connected tubes, including arteries, capillaries and veins.
What is the Cardiovascular system?
When you have to drag or pull a patient to a safe place before assessment and care are provided, it is called this.
What is an emergency move?
What are tendons?
This is what AVPU stands for
What is awake and alert, Responsive to verbal stimuli, responsive to pain, and Unresponsive?
This means closer to or on the skin
What is superficial?
This is the main artery leaving the back left side of the heart; carries freshly oxygenated blood to the body.
What is the aorta?
This is the age span of an early adult
What is 19-40?
These are the 5 sections to the spine (Must get all 5 correct)
What is the cervical spine, the thoracic spine, the lumbar spine, the sacral spine and the coccyx?
This is wet, crackling breath sounds
What are crackles?
This position s named after a US surgeon at the end of the 19th century
These are fragile divisions of the arterial system that allow contact between the blood and the cellsof the tissues.
What are capillaries?
This is the tip of a structure
What is the apex?
This is the amount of air that is moved into or out of the lungs during a single breath.
What is tidal volume?
This is what SAMPLE stands for:
What is signs and symptoms, allergies, medications, pertinent past medical history, last oral intake, and events leading up to the injury or illness?
The root word for blood vessel
What is angi/o?
This is the medical term for red blood cells
What is erythrocyte?
This is how you spell the correct term for blood pressure cuff..
What is s-p-h-y-g-m-o-m-a-n-o-m-e-t-e-r?
The 3 bones that are contained in the pelvis:
What is the ilium, the ishium, and the pubis?
This is what DCAP-BTLS stands for
What is deformities, contusions, Abrasions, Punctures, Burns, Tenderness, Lacerations and Swelling?
This suffix pertains to a surgical creation of an opening
What is -ostomy?
this occurs as fluid pushes against the vessel walls to force fluid out of the capillary.
What is hydrostatic pressure?
These are sophisticated capillaries that perform the filtering of the kidney
What are nephrons?