Neurology
This tool is used to determine the different levels of mental status: Awake and alert, Responsive to verbal stimuli, responsive to pain and unresponsive is known as the?
What is: AVPU Scale
As the body ages, the coronary arteries may narrow as a result of a disease process called?
What is: Atherosclerosis - Layers of fat coat the inner lining of the walls of the arteries.
This chewable medication is 81 mg each or in adult tablets, 325 mg. It should be given to a patient having chest pain if they are not allergic to it?
What is: One Adult Aspirin or 2- 4 baby Aspirin according to local protocols.
Older women who are diabetic are more likely to have this type of heart attack.
What is: A Silent Heart Attack
This is an infectious disease or condition that affects many people at the same time in the same geographical area.
What is: An Epidemic
Seizures that produce shaking movements and involve the entire body are known as:
What is: Generalized Seizures, or Grand Mal Seizures.
As Atherosclerosis progresses in the coronary arteries, it can reduce the blood supply (oxygen) to the heart. This can cause pain or pressure in the chest and is known as this chronic condition.
What is: Angina Pectoris
The three most common implanted cardiac assist devices are: Implanted Defibrillator, Ventricular Assist Device, and a:
What is: A pacemaker?
This chronic medical condition occurs because of the heart to pump adequately.
What is: Congestive Heart Failure.
If an epidemic spreads to many different parts of the world at the same time it is called.
What is: A Pandemic
These seizures typically result in only a brief lapse of consciousness.
What is: Absence Seizures.
This condition occurs when the heart and breathing cease to function.
What is: Cardiac Arrest
If someone needs oxygenated because of Respiratory Distress, you should administer how many liters of oxygen via the NRM.
What is: 15 lpm
Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing is known as.
What is: Dyspnea?
If you are unsure whether a conscious diabetic patient is suffering from hypoglycemia or diabetic coma, you should
What is: administer a sugary substance
After the seizure has ended, the patient is sleepy, but the airway is open and clear with the patient breathing adequately. How should you place your patient.
What is: In the Recovery Position?
A patient who has been diagnosed with Angina Pectoris will usually have this self-administer medication on hand.
What is: Nitroglycerin
The preferred route of administration for glucose gel is?
What is: Oral Route?
This disease is caused by damage to the alveoli in the lungs.
What is: C.O.P.D. or emphysema.
The sudden onset of abdominal pain caused by disease or trauma that irritates the lining of the abdominal cavity and requires immediate medical or surgical intervention.
What is: Acute Abdomen
If a patient does not begin breathing after a seizure, airway is open and clear, what should you do next.
What is: Begin rescue breathing or rescue ventilation,
A heart attack is known as a Myocardial Infarction. This is when one or more of these vessels become blocked.
What is: Coronary Arteries.
This Scale is an easy-to-administer and accurate tool that you can use to determine whether a patient may have experienced a stroke.
What is: The Cincinnati Prehospital Stroke Scale.
This condition can occur as a sudden onset, the patient is cool and clammy with an altered mental status.
What is: Hypoglycemia or low blood sugar.
A condition in which the layers of the aorta in the abdomen weaken. This causes blood to leak between the layers of the artery, causing it to bulge and sometimes rupture.
What is: (AAA) Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm