What is a term that refers to any drug that breaks down clots.
100
This delusion of thinking consists of an abnormal and persistent dread of a specific object or situation.
What is a phobia
100
30 chest compressions may be the order of the day for this type of patient with a pulse.
What is an unconcious choking child or a bradycardic child)
100
A delay in stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system may result in this non-compensating heart rhythm for the patient in neurogenic shock.
What is bradycardia
100
Parietal pain is often steady and easy to pinpoint as opposed to this type of pain that originates in hollow organs.
What is visceral pain
200
What class of drugs stimulate the nervous system to dilate the bronchioles.
What are sympathomimetics.
200
Compulsive actions are used to relieve these types of thoughts in an anxious patient.
What is obsessive
200
These are 3 of your H's and T's which could be a cause of PEA.
What is hypovolemia, hypoxia, hydrogen ion (acidosis), hyper/hypokalemia, hypothermia, tension pneumo, toxins, cardiac tamponade, thrombosis (pulmonary/cardiac)
200
These byproducts of anaerobic metabolism inhibit hemoglobin from binding to oxygen thus increasing hypoxia in the shocky patient.
What acids and wastes
200
This type of movement may accompany chest wall trauma where multiple ribs are fractured in multiple places.
What is paradoxical movement
300
This class of drug may be administered to a patient who suffers from vertigo in order to protect her airway
What is an antiemetic
300
Your patient is prescribed PHENOBARBITOL, this medication routinely prescribed for this type of disorder
What are seizure disorders
300
Your patient has coded as a result of a tension pneumo. TRUE or FALSE: this is a result of positive pressure on inspiration creating high amounts of pressure within the chest cavity.
What is FALSE, inspiration creates negative pressure within the chest cavity.
300
This condition may be caused by unchecked fluid administration on the hypotensive patient, often due to a poor assessment of the patient.
What is pulmonary edema
300
This type of respiratorty pattern often follow a head injury and have a crescendo/decrescendo pattern with periods of apnea.
What are Cheyne-Stokes respirations
400
What drug should be administered when a patient presents with angioedema, hives, and HOARSENESS and STRIDOR.
What is epinephrine.
400
TRUE or FALSE
Your patient loves her some phenobarbital, and wants to go to the bathroom before you transport her for SI. It is ok to let her go.
What is FALSE
400
Your patient laid out in Az ave in a drunken stupor and had a sweet Volkswagen Passat directly over their abdomen causing massive blunt trauma injuries. So they died. What % of abdominal injuries are a result of blunt trauma?
What is 66.6%
400
Hyperventilation, common in the compensated shock patient, can put the patient at risk for putting themselves into this pH related condition.
What is respiratory alkalosis
400
As you assess a 2 year old boy who was found suddenly struggling for breath, you note he has NO FEVER and has been crawling on the floor out of site of his mother. This is the most likely the cause of his respiratory distress
What is FBAO
500
Your patient is suffering from hypotension. And by the sound of rales in their lungs they are not hypovolemic. This drug is your drug of choice to treat this condition.
What is Dopamine
500
A neglected child may be difficult for the layperson to identify for this reason
What is a lack of physical signs
500
This chilly method is used to decrease injury to the brain due to decreased blood flow in a post-code comatose patient.
What is induced hypothermia
500
Your patient who was in symptomatic bradycardia received atropine and subsequently their pulse rate decreased. This is most likely the user error cause of this result
What is giving too low of a dose
500
As we know, the occulomotor nerve is assessed as standard paramedic procedure on every call. What letter is made in the air with the finger in order to make this assessment?