Cardiac
Heart muscle.
What is myocardial?
The passages smaller than the bronchi; they often swell or spasm, causing a wheezing sound.
What are the bronchioles?
Pale cool and clammy, altered mental status.
What is hypoglycemic?
Difficulty swallowing.
What is dysphagia?
Black, tarry stool.
What is melena?
The largest vein coming from the head to the right side of the heart.
What is the superior vena cava?
A patient experiencing cyanosis and speaking in two-three word sentences is experiencing this medical emergency.
What is respiratory distress?
What is hyperglycemia?
The name of the stroke scale used most commonly in the service.
What is the Cincinnati Stroke Scale?
Medical term for area where the kidneys are.
What is retroperitoneal space?
The artery that carries deoxygenated blood.
What is the pulmonary artery?
A patient with COPD relies on this drive to know when to breathe.
What is the hypoxic drive?
The key to the cell to allow glucose in.
What is insulin?
An electrical discharge across the entire brain, causing full body shaking.
What is generalized seizure?
The largest organ of the human body.
What is the skin?
The strongest side of the heart.
What is the left side?
A patient that is experiencing this will likely have wheezing and a rescue inhaler.
What is asthma?
This medication can be used if the patient can protect their airway.
What is oral glucose?
The first priority of a patient actively seizing.
What is moving stuff out of the way?
A dangerous, odorless, colorless gas that kills quickly.
What is carbon monoxide?
A medication that vasodilates, it often has a headache as a side effect.
What is nitroglycerine?
The suction rate for an adult, a pediatric and an infant.
What is 15, 10, 5?
This is an autoimmune disease where the body doesn't produce enough or any insulin.
What is diabetes type 1?
The medical term for a stroke.
What is Cerebrovascular accident?
Sarin, Soman, Tabun.
What are nerve agents?